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According to Wikipedia, Michael Gedaliah Kammen was an American professor of American cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University. At the time of his death, he held the title "Newton C. Farr professor emeritus of American history and culture".

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Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (1991) (395)
You Must Remember this@@@Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture. (1992) (219)
The problem of American exceptionalism: A reconsideration (1993) (136)
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture (1986) (122)
The Past before us : contemporary historical writing in the United States (1981) (109)
The Idea of Fraternity in America (1973) (95)
A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination (1979) (89)
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (1974) (64)
Colonial New York: A History (1976) (61)
In Pursuit of an Enlightened Past (1979) (57)
American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century (1999) (46)
In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture (1997) (44)
The Dispute of the New World: The History of a Polemic, 1750–1900 by Antonello Gerbi (review) (2016) (37)
The origins of the American Constitution : a documentary history (1986) (35)
Culture and the State in America (1996) (31)
Empire and interest : the American colonies and the politics of mercantilism (1970) (27)
A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution (1969) (24)
Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture (1986) (24)
The Idea of a Party System. The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840@@@The Opposition Press of the Federalist Period (1970) (22)
The lively arts : Gilbert Seldes and the transformation of cultural criticism in the United States (1997) (22)
The history of the Province of New-York (1972) (20)
Selvages and Biases: The Fabric of History in American Culture (1987) (17)
Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials (2010) (16)
Deputyes & libertyes: The origins of representative government in colonial America (1972) (13)
The Transformation of Early American History: Society, Authority and Ideology (1991) (13)
The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States (1981) (11)
An Americanist's Reprise: The Pervasive Role of Histoire Probleme in Historical Scholarship Concerning the United States Since the 1960s (1998) (10)
Society, freedom, and conscience : the American Revolution in Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York (1977) (10)
The American Past Politicized: Uses and Misuses of History (2008) (8)
The Meaning of Colonization in American Revolutionary Thought (1970) (7)
Public History and the Uses of Memory (1997) (7)
The Glorious Revolution in America: Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689. (1966) (7)
Sovereignty and liberty : constitutional discourse in American culture (1990) (7)
The Glorious Revolution in America : documents on the colonial crisis of 1689 (1965) (6)
VANITAS AND THE HISTORIAN'S VOCATION (1982) (6)
Carl Becker Redivivus: Or, Is Everyone Really a Historian? (2000) (6)
The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929 . By Elspeth H. Brown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. viii + 334 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88099-8. (2005) (6)
Meadows of Memory: Images of Time and Tradition in American Art and Culture (1992) (6)
A Russian Looks at America: The Journey of Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier in 1857 (1980) (6)
Colonial Court Records and the Study of Early American History: A Bibliographical Review (1965) (5)
The Colonial Agents, English Politics and the American Revolution (1965) (5)
From abundance to scarcity : implications for the American tradition (1978) (5)
Curtis P. Nettels: American Scholar, 1898-1981 (1983) (4)
The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. (1997) (4)
The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979 (2004) (4)
"What is the good of history?" Selected letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900 -1945, (1973) (3)
Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer (1999) (3)
John Higham and the Nourishment of Memory (2004) (3)
Contested Values: Democracy and Diversity in American Culture (1995) (3)
Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900 (review) (2011) (3)
The Contrapuntal Civilization: Essays Toward a New Understanding of the American Experience (1971) (3)
Democratizing American Commemorative Monuments (2001) (3)
Democracy and Immigration (2018) (3)
'This, here and soon'. Johan Huizinga's esquisse of American culture (1982) (2)
Moses Coit Tyler: The First Professor of American History in the United States. (1983) (2)
2 – The American Revolution in National Tradition (1977) (2)
Deputyes & Libertyes: The Origins of Representative Government in America (1970) (2)
Clio, Columbia, And The Cosmopolitans: Beyond American Exceptionalism And The Nation–State (2003) (2)
The Discovery of the Asylum. Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic . By David J. Rothman. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. Pp. 376. $12.50.) (1973) (2)
A Rope of Sand (2012) (2)
Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth (1998) (2)
Sovereignty and liberty (1988) (2)
Politics and society in colonial America: democracy or deference? (1967) (2)
The Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1907–1952 (2011) (2)
Some Reminiscences and Reflections on Graduate Education in History (2008) (2)
Progressive History's Curmudgeon: The Enigmatic Carl Becker@@@"What is the Good of History?" Selected Letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900-1945. (1974) (2)
Photography and the Discipline of American Studies (2007) (2)
A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (2019) (2)
Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (2004) (1)
Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution. By Leonard W. Levy. (New York: Macmillan, 1988. xviii + 525 pp. $19.95.) (1989) (1)
Peltries or Plantations: The Economic Policies of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland, 1623-1639@@@Empire and Interest: The American Colonies and the Politics of Mercantilism (1971) (1)
What Reconstruction Meant Historical Memory in the American South (review) (2012) (1)
Review of Rydell and Kroes, Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922 (2006) (1)
Wall-Gazing: Memorializing Vietnam Veterans While Distorting and Disremembering the War (2010) (1)
The Voyages of David De Vries: Navigator and Adventurer (1970) (1)
Maryland in 1699: A Letter from the Reverend Hugh Jones (1963) (1)
The Triumphant Empire: The Rumbling of the Coming Storm, 1766-1770 and The Triumphant Empire: Britain Sails into the Storm, 1770-1776 (1966) (1)
The constitution in American culture from 1787 to th present (1987) (0)
On Predicting the past: Potter and Plumb@@@History and American Society: Essays of David M. Potter@@@In the Light of History (1974) (0)
The Emperor's New Clothes@@@The Past before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States. (1981) (0)
Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (2013) (0)
Against the Tide of American History : The Story of the Mille Lacs Anishinabe . By (2007) (0)
Selvages and Biases (2020) (0)
Tocqueville's Discovery of America . By Leo Damrosch . ( New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2010 . Pp. xxiv, 278. $27.00 .) (2010) (0)
The Early Modern Chesapeake Redux—Again (2013) (0)
Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History. By William Kerrigan. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 231. $50.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.) (2013) (0)
Book Review: Hearth & Home: Preserving a People's Culture, by George W. McDaniel (1982) (0)
Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life. By Alexis McCrossen (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvi plus 255 pp. $45.00) (2015) (0)
Book Review: Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810, by Emory Elliott (1982) (0)
Book Review: Saints and Revolutionaries: Essays on Early American History, by Michael Kammen (1984) (0)
Robert A. Ferguson, Reading the Early Republic , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 358. $45 (ISBN 0-674-01338-7). (2005) (0)
The Impact of the American Revolution Abroad by (1977) (0)
The American Antiquarian Society, 1812–2012: A Bicentennial History. By Philip F. Gura. (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 2012. Pp. xvi, 454. $60.00.) (2012) (0)
Essays on Liberty and Federalism: The Shaping of the U.S. Constitution The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, No. 22. (1990) (0)
These United States : portraits of America from the 1920s (1993) (0)
THE MEANING OF COLONIZATION IN (2016) (0)
The New World Experiment in Democracy (2018) (0)
A Book of Paradoxes@@@People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization. (1973) (0)
Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, 2007. Pp. xix, 378. $30.00.) (2008) (0)
Disinterred by Devotion (2010) (0)
A Restless Past: History and the American Public (2005) (0)
Repossessing the Dead Elsewhere in Our Time (2010) (0)
Democracy and Education (2018) (0)
The Story of America: Essays on Origins (2014) (0)
A time to every purpose (2004) (0)
Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts . Joseph Horowitz . ( New York : HarperCollins , 2008 . Pp. xix, 458. Illustrations. $27.50 .) (2008) (0)
The Futures of American Freedom (2000) (0)
Up Against the Wall: Madcap Missouri Muralist (2013) (0)
Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (review) (2008) (0)
Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury . By James B. Twitchell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 448 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-231-12496-1. (2002) (0)
Democracy and Government (2018) (0)
Annals of Americanisme: Making Our Art Modern (2000) (0)
Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum. By Edward T. Linenthal. (New York: Viking, 1995. xiv, 336 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-86067-0.) (1995) (0)
Intellectuals, Political Leadership, and Revolution@@@Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College in the Classes 1756-1760, with Bibliographical and Other Notes (1968) (0)
Deja View All Over Again?@@@Fifties Television: The Industry and its Critics.@@@The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years.@@@Hollywood in the Age of Television. (1992) (0)
Writing American History: Essays on Modern Scholarship.Carl Becker on History and the American Revolution (1972) (0)
"Teach Us Our Recollections" (2001) (0)
A Transnational Museum World of "Intangible Pasts" (2007) (0)
The Seasoning of American Culture (2012) (0)
Being Bicentennial@@@Colonial North Carolina: A History.@@@Colonial New Jersey: A History.@@@Colonial Rhode Island: A History.@@@Colonial New York: A History.@@@Colonial Pennsylvania: A History.@@@Colonial Georgia: A History.@@@Colonial Delaware: A History.@@@Colonial Connecticut: A History.@@@Colon (1983) (0)
Born in the U.S.A.: Birth, Commemoration, and American Public Memory (2013) (0)
Demography in Early America: Beginnings of the Statistical Mind, 1600–1800. By James H. Cassedy. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. xi + 357 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographical notes, and index. $8.50.) (1970) (0)
Ignorance is Bliss@@@A Machine that Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture. (1987) (0)
The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (review) (2000) (0)
JASPER MAUDUIT'S DIARY (1962) (0)
The Meanings Of Civic Space (2001) (0)
Michael Kammen, A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1986. Pp. xxii, 532. $29.95 (ISBN: 0-394-52905-7). (1988) (0)
Three Essays on the Revolution: Shadows and Substance@@@Society, Freedom, and Conscience: The American Revolution in Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York. (1977) (0)
Can Political History Also Be a People's History?: The Case of Thomas Babington Macaulay (2011) (0)
Reviews of Books:Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley Judith Richardson (2004) (0)
How the West Was Seen: The Conquest of Space, Time, and Vision (2003) (0)
1973 Award. About the Origins of American Civilization (1993) (0)
They Made American History a Public Matter-- With Numerous Books and Considerable Patter (1999) (0)
All-American cast (1994) (0)
Book Review: Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949, by Charles B. Hosmer, Jr. (1981) (0)
A Time to Rend: An Essay on the Decision for American Independence. By John M. Head. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1968. xviii + 208 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $5.95.) (1969) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
Historians on Writing (2010) (0)
Problematic Graves, Tourism, and the Wishes of Survivors (2010) (0)
A Short History of Reburial (2010) (0)
A Bibliographical Guide to the History of the British Empire, 1748-1776@@@A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the History of the British Empire, 1748-1776 (1971) (0)
Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time. By Theresa M. Collins. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 383 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-807-82696-0 (2003) (0)
New World Democracy and Old World Intervention (2018) (0)
Essays on Liberty and Federalism (1988) (0)
Book Review: Blum and Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, by Michael Kammen (2013) (0)
Heroes of the Revolution (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2012) (0)
Nationalism, naturalism, and the democratization of tradition in the United States, 1920-1940 (1981) (0)
Culture: American Style (1982) (0)
The Founding Fathers: In Search of Fame and Identity@@@Fame and the Founding Fathers. Essays by Douglass Adair.@@@Dimensions of a New Identity: The 1973 Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities (1975) (0)
Colonial New York@@@Stubborn for Liberty (1977) (0)
Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project (review) (2005) (0)
Book Review: Growth of the American Revolution, 1766-1775. by Bernard Knollenberg (1975) (0)
Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monumentby Seth Bruggeman . Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008; 276 pp.; paperbound, $24.95. (2009) (0)
Wrecked on the Fourth of July (1997) (0)
Explaining One's Self to Clio and Her Colleagues (2005) (0)
Politics and poetics of the body in early modern japan (2011) (0)
Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America (review) (2011) (0)
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 1758-1759 and 1759-1760 (1965) (0)
Book Review: Court of Reason: Robert Hutchins and the Fund for the Republic, by Michael Kammen (1983) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life by Alexis McCrossen (review) (2015) (0)
The Origins of Democracy in America (2018) (0)
John McWilliams.New England's Crisis and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620–1860.:New England's Crisis and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620–1860.(Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, number 142.) (2006) (0)
The Boston Massacre. By Hiller B. Zobel. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970. xi + 372 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $8.50.) (1970) (0)
Honor, Dishonor, and Issues of Reputation (2010) (0)
First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory Gary B. Nash (2002) (0)
Democracy and Equality (2018) (0)
Book Review: Felix Frankfurter and His Times: The Reform Years, by Michael Kammen (1984) (0)
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life . By Hugh Brogan . (New Haven : Yale University Press , 2007 . Pp. xii, 724. $35.00. ) (2007) (0)
Walker Evans. By James R. Mellow. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. 654 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-465-09077-X.) (2000) (0)
SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING, SOMETIMES (2016) (0)
JOHN MCWILLIAMS. New England's Crisis and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620–1860. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, number 142.) New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xii, 366. $70.00 (2006) (0)
Book Review: Imaginative Constructions of the Nation (2012) (0)
New Directions in American Intellectual History@@@A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination (1980) (0)
Book Reviewed:Men in Rebellion: Higher Governmental Leaders and the Coming of the American Revolution, by james Kirby Martin (1974) (0)
Democracy and Slavery (2018) (0)
Book Review: The Constitution, the Courts and Human Rights: An Inquiry into the Legitimacy of Constitutional Policymaking by the Judiciary, by Michael Kammen (1983) (0)
Politics, Science, and Society in Colonial America: An Essay Review of Recent Approaches and Neglected Opportunities (1969) (0)
Democracy and Free Land (2018) (0)
Book Review: The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts, by John J. Waters, Jr. (1969) (0)
Europe is a pair of colored glasses to one studying his own civilisation (1982) (0)
A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America. By Patricia Cline Cohen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. x + 271 pp. Notes and index. $22.50.) (1983) (0)
“You Can’t Change History”—Unless by Misremembering (2011) (0)
America and Democracy (2018) (0)
The “Good War” in American Memory (2011) (0)
Introduction: The Historian’s Vocation and the State of the Discipline in the United States (2020) (0)
Fanfare for the common dad (1993) (0)
How the Past Lives On (1993) (0)

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