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Elaine Tyler May
Elaine Tyler May is Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota. She is past president of the Organization of American Historians and past president of the American Studies Association. In addition to her books and articles, she has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Ms., Daily Beast, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Star Tribune, among others. She is a recent recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation.
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy (Basic Books, 2017)
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (Basic Books, 1988; new edition 2017)
America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation (Basic Books, 2010)
Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness (Basic Books, 1997)
Pushing the Limits: American Women, 1940-1961 (Oxford University Press, 1996)
Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America (University of Chicago Press, 1980)
