Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is Professor of History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

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• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Emotions and HistoryJessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Approaches to the Study of Human Emotions Chapter 1. Emotions History in the United States: Goals, Methods and PromisesPeter Stearns Chapter 2. Emotions and the History of Everyday LifeAlf Lüdtke Emotions and WarChapter 3. The Corruption of Civic Virtue by Emotion: Anti-imperialist Fears in the Debate on the Philippine-American War (1899-1902)Fabian HilfrichChapter 4. The Mobilization of Emotions: Propaganda and Social Violence on the American Home Front During World War OneJörg Nagler Chapter 5. Hanoi Jane, Vietnam Memory, and EmotionsAndreas EtgesEmotions Art and the MediaChapter 6. ”Stop Them Damned Pictures...” - Political Cartoons, the Study of Emotions, and the Construction of the Anglo-American RelationshipStefanie SchneiderChapter 7. Emotions of Comparisons Perceptions of European anti-Americanism in U.S.-Magazines of the 1920sAdelheid von SaldernChapter 8. Emotions and Nineteenth Century American ArtBettina Friedl Emotions and SocietyChapter 9. A Horrifying Experience? Public Executions and the Emotional Spectator in the New RepublicJürgen Martschukat Chapter 10. Emotions, American Society, and Discourses on SexualityMichael Hochgeschwender Chapter 11. Does Every Vote Count In America? Emotions, Elections, and the Quest for Black Political EmpowermentBritta Waldschmidt-Nelson The View from the Other Side: Emotions and PsychologyChapter 12. The Fortunes of Emotion in the Science of Psychology and in the History of EmotionsHorst GundlachIndex