American Historical Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Historical Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Four Black Deaths51
The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept21
The Well That Wept Blood18
The Privilege of Family History14
Seeing Black America in Iran12
AHR Conversation: Black Internationalism6
Gender History, Global History, and Atlantic Slavery6
Critical Digital Archives: A Review from Archival Studies5
The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States)5
Made in Manchuria: The Transnational Origins of Socialist Industrialization in Maoist China4
Blood and Bone, Tears and Oil4
Smell, History, and Heritage4
Slow History4
Whiffstory4
Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species4
Fiduciary Colonialism4
Sounds of February, Smells of October: The Russian Revolution as Sensory Experience4
More than the Name of the Rose4
Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence3
Europe’s Forgotten Unfinished Revolution: Peasant Power, Social Mobilization, and Communism in the Southern Italian Countryside, 1943–453
Befeathering the European: The Matter of Feathers in the Material Renaissance3
Decolonizing Renaissance Humanism3
The Still-Emerging World of History Podcasting3
Archiving the Chilean Revolution3
Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of History3
The Wages of Harlotry—Luise White’s The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (1990–2020)3
“Do You Call Yourself a White Man?”3
On Silence and History3
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand. Medieval Literature on Display: Heritage and Culture in Modern Germany.2
Walking While Indian, Walking While Black: Policing in a Colonial City2
A Holocaust Paragon of Virtue’s Rise to Fame2
Agnotology in Palestine/Israel2
Carmen M. K. Gitre. Acting Egyptian: Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930.2
Sara Collins. The Confessions of Frannie Langton.2
Community-Engaged History: A Reflection on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre2
The Algorithm2
Historians and Their Publics, Then and Now2
The Search for the Kayendo: Recovering the Lowcountry Rice Toolkit2
Deep Play? Video Games and the Historical Imaginary2
Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation2
Joshua Eisenman. Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune.2
Blood Brothers2
Capitulations Redux: The Imperial Genealogy of the Post–World War I “Minority” Regimes1
Elliott Young. Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System.1
Tara Nummedal. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany.1
Cynthia A. Ruder. Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space.1
Claire E. Edington. Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam.1
Jessica Wang. Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920.1
Michael D. Gordin. Einstein in Bohemia.1
Marixa Lasso. Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal.1
Darkness at Noon: On History, Narrative, and Domestic Violence1
Nandita Sharma. Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants.1
Rabbis of the (Scientific) Revolution: Revealing the Hidden Corpus of Early Modern Translations Produced by Jewish Religious Thinkers1
The 1619 Project Forum1
Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton. The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian 1
Linga’s Dream?1
Dominique Kalifa. Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld.1
Toussaint Louvrture and Political Thought1
Moritz von Brescius. German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers.1
“That City Af loat”1
Hugh Cagle. Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–17001
Andrea E. Duffy. Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World.1
Ingrid de Zwarte. The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944–1945.1
Laurence Monnais. The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam.1
Matthew H. Edney. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History.1
The Empire Strikes Back from Within: Colonial Liberation and the Korean Minority Question at the Birth of Postwar Japan, 1945–471
Translating God on the Borders of Sovereignty1
Empire on the Edge1
A Capitol Orchard1
Casey P. Cater. Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South.1
A Historian’s History, Experience, and Myth1
Toward an Archival Reckoning1
Michael Jonas. Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War.1
The Geography of Nonviolence1
Adam R. Hodge. Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868.1
Daniel Belgrad. The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in Seventies America.1
Dagmar Herzog. Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe.1
Jennifer L. Derr. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt.1
Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend. Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan.1
Biafras of the Mind: French Postcolonial Humanitarianism in Global Conceptual History1
Soviet Secrecy: Toward a Social Map of Knowledge1
Paul Bertrand. Documenting the Everyday in Medieval Europe: The Social Dimensions of a Writing Revolution, 1250–1350.1
Hugo ka Canham. Riotous Deathscapes.1
Ilana Feldman. Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics.1
Nations, Politics, and the Role of History in East Central Europe1
Lydia Barnett. After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe.1
The Agency Dilemma1
Mike Leigh, director. Peterloo.1
Bruno Belhoste. Paris Savant: Capital of Science in the Age of Enlightenment.1
Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson. The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools; Sam Wineburg1
Ali Erken. America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances.1
Wade Graham. Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaiʻi.1
The Iron Cage of Erasure: American Indian Sovereignty in Jill Lepore’s These Truths1
Heinrich Hartmann. The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War.1
Antoine Bousquet. The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone.1
Teaching History with Video Games1
Kwasi Konadu. Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation.1
“The Only Industry That Can Make Us Hold Our Own”: Black Agrarianism in South Africa from a Transatlantic Perspective, ca. 1910–19301
Andrew A. Robichaud. Animal City: The Domestication of America.1
Fadi A. Bardawil. Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation.1
Atlantis Restored1
Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt. Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter.1
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China.1
John Henderson. Florence under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City.1
Jennifer Thomson. The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health.1
Jill Lepore. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future.1
Jacob S. T. Dlamini. Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park.1
A Shared Toxic History1
Eugene McCarraher. The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.1
Raja Adal. Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education.1
Finding Amica in the Archives: Navigating a Path between Strategic Collaboration and Independent Research1
Writing Apartheid: Ethnographic Collaborators and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century South Africa1
Rethinking Nationalism1
Ulrike Freitag. A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.1
Jean E. Jackson. Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia.1
Owen Whooley. On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing.1
Susan Nance. Rodeo: An Animal History.1
Trent MacNamara. Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas.1
Jeff Kosseff. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet.1
Chelsi Mueller. The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars.1
Douglas M. O’Reagan. Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War.1
Barbara Hahn. Technology in the Industrial Revolution.1
Reviewing History1
Hans Pols. Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies.1
The Limits of Brotherhood1
Erika Lee. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States.1
Greg Whitesides. Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II.1
Christine Jorgensen in Cuba1
Southeast Asian History as Contemporary Art1
Rajeshwari Dutt. Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatán's Caste War, 1847–1901.0
Mark Towsey. Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840.0
Jonathan Phillips. The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin.0
Hagar Kotef. The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine.0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Robert Culp. The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism.0
Olivier Wieviorka. The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945.0
Michael J. Taylor. Soldiers and Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest.0
Michael C. Steiner. Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism.0
Thomas E. Smith. Emancipation without Equality: Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line.0
Thomas Munck. Conflict and Enlightenment: Print and Political Culture in Europe, 1635–1795.0
Robert Hellyer. Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups.0
Jay Howard Geller. The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction.0
Marcela K. Perett. Preachers, Partisans, and Rebellious Religion: Vernacular Writing and the Hussite Movement.0
Thomas A. Schwartz. Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.0
Oysterman and Refugee0
From the Editor’s Desk: Journal of the Plague Year0
Jannis Panagiotidis. The Unchosen Ones: Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany.0
Agnieszka Sobocinska. Saving the World?: Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex.0
Jennifer Graber. The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West.0
Marie Muschalek. Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa.0
Dominique Kalifa. The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond. Translated by Susan Emanuel.0
Dominick LaCapra. Understanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts.0
Africa’s Revolutionary Nineteenth Century and the Idea of the “Scramble”0
Lisa T. Sarasohn. Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin.0
Miles Ogborn. The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World.0
Ava DuVernay, director. When They See Us.0
Stefan J. Link. Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order.0
Robert E. May. Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory.0
Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin. Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland.0
Paula C. Austin. Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life.0
Rana Mitter. China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism0
Kate Clarke Lemay. Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France.0
Stephen A. Lazer. State Formation in Early Modern Alsace, 1648–1789.0
Julie K. deGraffenried and Stephen M. Sloan. The United States in Global Perspective: A Primary Source Reader.0
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church0
Ann Durkin Keating. The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire.0
In This Issue0
Lawrence J. Nelson and Matthew G. Schoenbachler. Nikita Khrushchev’s Journey into America.0
Andrew J. Gawthorpe. To Build as Well as Destroy: American Nation Building in South Vietnam.0
Anita Kurimay. Queer Budapest, 1873–1961.0
Robert Harms. Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa.0
Steven Conn. Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools.0
Kathleen Weiler. Maria Baldwin’s Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice.0
Elizabeth L. Jemison. Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South.0
Matthias Röhrig Assunção. De Caboclos a Bem-te-vis: Formação do Campesinato numa Sociedade Escravista: Maranhão 1800–1850. 2nd ed.0
Daniela Saresella. Catholics and Communists in Twentieth-Century Italy: Between Conflict and Dialogue.0
Jeffrey D. Needell. The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro.0
Austin Carson. Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics.0
Amaka Okechukwu. To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions.0
Joshua Bennett. God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914.0
Carole Fink. West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965–1974.0
Stephan Malinowski. Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance.0
Brendan Goff. Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism.0
Harriet Fertik. The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome.0
Tom Stammers. The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790–1890.0
“Improper and Almost Rebellious Conduct”0
Bill Sewell. Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45.0
Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601.0
Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age.0
Jeffrey Hill. Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire.0
Sarah M. A. Gualtieri. Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California.0
Nira Wickramasinghe. Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka.0
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros. Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia.0
A Civics Primer for American History0
Cian T. McMahon. The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine.0
Richard J. Oosterhoff. Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’Étaples.0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Kabria Baumgartner. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America.0
Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell. The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s–1830s.0
Giuliana Chamedes. A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe.0
Sasha D. Pack. The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland.0
R. Scott Huffard Jr. Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South.0
Jeremy Prestholdt. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac, and Bin Laden.0
Sarah Ansari and William Gould. Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan.0
OUP accepted manuscript0
In This Issue0
Cécile Vidal. Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.0
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History0
Michael Mark Cohen. The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly.0
Stan Neal. Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819–67.0
Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay, eds. Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions.0
Dustin A. Abnet. The American Robot: A Cultural History.0
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India0
Film Reviews: Introduction0
Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance.0
Lorena V. Márquez. La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento.0
Communications0
Stefan Esselborn. Die Afrikaexperten: Das Internationale Afrikainstitut und die europäische Afrikanistik, 1926–1976.0
Douglas K. Miller. Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century.0
Claire Whitlinger. Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi.0
Reading Private Photography0
Christina Elizabeth Firpo. Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945.0
Igor Fedyukin. The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia.0
“The Last Great Battle of the West”0
Monica Black. A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany.0
Amy J. Rutenberg. Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance.0
Lynn M. Hudson. West of Jim Crow: The Fight against California’s Color Line.0
Polly Jones. Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography.0
Kasi Lemmons, director. Harriet.0
Gregory Brew. Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War.0
Bernard Bate; E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, and Constantine V. Nakassis (eds.). Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asi0
Jeffrey D. Burson. The Culture of Enlightening: Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment.0
Julie Orringer. The Flight Portfolio.0
John C. Inscoe. Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South.0
Kathleen Sprows Cummings. A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American.0
Suman Seth. Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire; Tim Lockley. Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life an0
Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain.0
Sébastien Rioux. The Social Cost of Cheap Food: Labour and the Political Economy of Food Distribution in Britain, 1830–1914.0
Liesbeth Corens. Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe.0
Karolina Hutková. The English East India Company’s Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850: Economy, Empire and Business.0
Sebastian R. Prange. Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast.0
Alexander Vazansky. An Army in Crisis: Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in Germany, 1968–1975.0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel. Ypres.0
Elisabeth Israels Perry. After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia’s New York.0
Julia Hell. The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome.0
John Baranski. Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco.0
R. Scott Sheffield and Noah Riseman. Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War: The Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.0
Niamh Gallagher. Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History0
Tom Segev. A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion.0
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