The Familiar Made Strange

In The Familiar Made Strange , twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley's painting Watson and the Shark , Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey's reports