Introduction: Emotions in American history : the view from Europe / Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht -- Approaches to the study of human emotions -- Emotions history in the United States : goals, methods, and promises / Peter N. Stearns -- Emotions and the history of everyday life / Alf Lüdtke -- Emotions and war -- The corruption of civic virtue by emotion : anti-imperialist fears in the debate on the Philippine-American War (1899/1902) / Fabian Hilfrich -- The mobilization of emotions : propaganda and social violence on the American home front during World War I / Jörg Nagler -- Hanoi Jane, Vietnam memory, and emotions / Andreas Etges -- Emotions, art, and the media -- "Stop them damned pictures" : political cartoons, the study of emotions, and the construction of the Anglo-American relationship / Stefanie Schneider -- Emotions of comparisons : perceptions of European anti-Americanism in US magazines of the 1920s / Adelheid von Saldern -- Emotions and nineteenth-century American art / Bettina Friedl -- Emotions and society -- A horrifying experience? : public executions and the emotional spectator in the new Republic / Jürgen Martschukat -- Emotions, American society, and discourses on sexuality / Michael Hochgeschwender -- Does every vote count in America? : emotions, elections, and the quest for Black political empowerment / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson -- The view from the other side : emotions and psychology -- The fortunes of emotion in the science of psychology and in the history of emotions / Horst U.K. Gundlach