Brings together, for the first time, the far-flung history of American Studies~Explores unpublished archival material from Ralph Ellison, F.O. Matthiessen, Alfred Kazin, and Margaret Mead~Draws on the archives of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (originally the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization)~Reveals alternative histories of American exceptionalism, both within the United States and without