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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
William G. Thomas III. A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War.18
Peter Sloman. Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain.14
Geraint Thomas. Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain.14
The History of Nation-States as the History of Human Rights?13
Peter Wetzler. Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire.12
Dara Orenstein. Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism.12
Global feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean11
Cherisse Jones-Branch. Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965.10
Rebekah E. Pite. Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region.8
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu. Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age.7
F. Evan Nooe. Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South.6
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism.6
Introducing AfriWetu6
Paper Tracings in the Spectacularly Boisterous Archive of Slavery6
Rodney Hessinger. Smitten: Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening.6
Patrick J. Charles. Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States.5
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.5
Africa’s Revolutionary Nineteenth Century and the Idea of the “Scramble”5
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer. Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany.5
Thomas Munck. Conflict and Enlightenment: Print and Political Culture in Europe, 1635–1795.4
Anna Toropova. Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin.3
“Improper and Almost Rebellious Conduct”3
Lorena V. Márquez. La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento.3
Derrick R. Spires. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.3
Cian T. McMahon. The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine.3
Claire Whitlinger. Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi.3
Antagonizing3
Robert Hellyer. Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups.3
Brendan Goff. Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism.3
Hagar Kotef. The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine.2
Richard W. Pointer. Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America.2
Jeff Eden. God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War.2
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church2
Malte Fuhrmann. Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire2
Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship.2
Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923).2
Elisabeth Israels Perry. After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia’s New York.2
Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization.2
Lewis A. Grossman. Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America.2
Cécile Vidal. Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.2
Kai Jun Chen. Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China.1
Kelly A. Hammond. China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II.1
E. James West. Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America.1
Annie Tracy Samuel. The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.1
Adam Mestyan. Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East.1
Stephen Tuffnell. Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America.1
Maribel Morey. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order.1
Dominque Valérian. Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval.1
Alison Li. Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution.1
Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of History1
Lines of Fate1
Graydon A. Tunstall The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War.1
John William Nelson. Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent.1
Kristalyn Marie Shefveland. Selling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole.1
Armand S. La Potin. Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853–1934: Reluctant Warrior.1
Stan Neal. Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819–67.1
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games.1
Kate Fullagar. The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire.1
Adrienne Edgar. Intermarriage and the Friendship of the Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia.1
Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith. Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea: A History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth Century.1
Pepijn Corduwener. The Rise and Fall of the People’s Parties: A History of Democracy in Western Europe since 1918.1
Jonathan Sperber. The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.1
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.1
Philipp Ther. The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492.1
Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601.1
Timothy Alborn. All That Glittered: Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush.1
Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, and Bertrand Taithe. The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912.1
Late Acceleration1
Stephan Malinowski. Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance.1
Tanalís Padilla. Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico.1
Rebecca Clifford. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust.1
Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance.1
Erik R. Scott. Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World.1
Quito Swan. Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World.1
To Live and Die in Hip-Hop1
Eating on the Ground1
Love, Joy, and Hope1
Smell, History, and Heritage1
Peter Kuper. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.1
Tiya Miles. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.1
Alexey Golubev. The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia.1
Lisa T. Sarasohn. Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin.1
Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species1
Nora Elizabeth Barakat. Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire.1
Knowing by Sensing1
Merle L. Bowen. For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil.1
Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation1
Robin Waterfield. The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks.1
Max Fraser. Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class.1
Robert K. D. Colby. An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South.1
Mark Peterson. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865.0
Lula and His Politics of Cunning0
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.0
The Ecology of Exchange: The Monetization of Roman Egypt0
Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay, eds. Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions.0
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970.0
Avner Wishnitzer. As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark.0
Tom Sapsford. Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures.0
Excoriating Stalin, Criticizing Mao0
The 1619 Project Forum0
Sören Urbansky. Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border.0
Karin Vélez. The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World.0
Melvin L. Rogers. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.0
Carolyn James. A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519.0
Michael C. Steiner. Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism.0
Donald Bloxham. History and Morality.0
Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg. Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace.0
Mitchell L. Hammond. Epidemics and the Modern World.0
Marc Becker. The CIA in Ecuador.0
Earlie Thorpe: Antiracist Scholar Who Centered Black Voices in US History0
Steven Trout. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire: War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy.0
Karlos K. Hill and David Dodson. The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History.0
Arang Keshavarzian. Making Space For the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East.0
Comment by Linda Gordon0
Mortal Designs, Warda, and My First and Only Love0
Richard Bell. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.0
Elisabeth Leake. Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan.0
Xin Wen. The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road.0
Kerry Walters. Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History.0
Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain.0
Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.0
Sara E. Lampert. Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater 1790–1850.0
Proximity Matters0
When Hay Was King0
The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History0
Tyler C. Kirk. After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North.0
A Biography of Black Power0
Sam Wetherell. Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain.0
Daniel S. Chard. Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism.0
Nations, Politics, and the Role of History in East Central Europe0
Benjamin B. Cohen. An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj.0
Owen Stanwood. The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire.0
Ashley Walsh. Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707–18000
Kevin Boyle. The Shattering: America in the 1960s.0
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII.0
Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution.0
Isabella Cosse. Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic.0
Julia M. Gossard. Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World.0
Stephen Stuempfle. Port of Spain: The Construction of a Caribbean City, 1888–19620
Deborah Willis. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.0
Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History.0
Paul Corner. Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator.0
Juned Shaikh. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor.0
Jeremy Prestholdt. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac, and Bin Laden.0
James G. Clark. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History.0
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom0
Seth Jacobs. Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy.0
Cameron D. Jones and Jay T. Harrison, eds. At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America.0
Nimisha Barton. Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945.0
Tom Stammers. The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790–1890.0
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy.0
Alex Dowdall. Communities under Fire: Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914–1918.0
Thomas Blake Earle. The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Rob Boddice. Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914.0
Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age.0
Laurel Leff. Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe.0
Noura Erakat. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.0
Jeremy Zallen. American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865.0
Gillis J. Harp. Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History.0
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage0
A Note on the AHA’s Racist Histories Initiative and Book Reviewing0
Timothy Verhoeven. Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Introduction0
Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease.0
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City.0
Barbara Hahn. Technology in the Industrial Revolution.0
Marina Rustow. The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.0
Mark W. Deets. A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal.0
Sándor Horváth. Children of Communism: Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s. Translated by Thomas Cooper.0
Rebecca Ayako Bennette. Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One.0
The Price of Progress0
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular. The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina.0
Christopher James Bonner. Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship.0
Janet Greenlees. When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries.0
T. K. Wilson. Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern.0
Stephen Preskill. Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice.0
Mark Towsey. Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840.0
Andrew Denning. Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa.0
Jamie A. Gianoutsos. The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660.0
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor0
Elijah Doro. Plunder for Profit: A Socio-Environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe.0
Rosie Bsheer. Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia.0
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers. The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War.0
Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam.0
Sinem Arcak Casale. Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639.0
Óscar Alfredo Ruiz Fernández. England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade and Naval Relations, 1604–25.0
Remembering the Fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge0
Documents and Bibliographies0
Globalizing Publics and the Future of Political History0
Dana M. Caldemeyer. Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age.0
Daniel T. Rodgers. As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon; Abram C. Van Engen. City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism.0
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders.0
Samuel Fury Childs Daly. A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War.0
State Power and the Infrastructure of Immigrant Removal0
Philippa Koch. The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America.0
Owen Davies. Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum.0
Ian Ona Johnson. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War.0
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India0
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. A Black Women’s History of the United States. (ReVisioning American History.)0
Lee B. Wilson. Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783.0
Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City.0
Documents and Bibliographies0
Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.0
A World of Contradictions0
Thomas A. Schwartz. Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.0
Teaching Historical Thinking Through a Primary Source Database0
Austin Dean. China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937.0
H. Glenn Penny. German History Unbound: From 1750 to the Present.0
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900.0
Greg Hall. Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox.0
Wen-Qing Ngoei. Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia.0
Ronald Grigor Suny. Stalin: Passage to Revolution.0
J. Megan Greene. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II.0
Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion.0
Jessica Stites Mor. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left.0
Raymond B. Blake and Melvin Baker. Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road Towards Confederation.0
Challenging American Hegemony0
Xuelei Huang. Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell.0
Susan Grant. Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism.0
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History0
Inside the History Lab0
Ali Mirsepassi. Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State.0
Adam Bisno. Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875–1933.0
Lula’s Prison Letters and the Brazilian Presidential Papers: Archives, Readings, and Uses0
Paul S. Hirsch. Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism.0
Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo. The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco’s New Society in Spain, 1936–1950.0
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016.0
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy.0
Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance.0
Laurie A. Wilkie. Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875.0
Dane Kennedy. Mungo Park’s Ghost: The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa.0
Matthew K. Shannon. Mission Manifest American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century.0
Mark Roseman. Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany.0
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State.0
Collected Essays0
Resilience in African History0
Mir Yarfitz. Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina.0
Philipp Nielsen. Between Heimat and Hatred: Jews and the Right in Germany, 1871–1935.0
Caroline E. Janney. Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox.0
Rowan Dorin. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe.0
Matthew Kerry.Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic.0
Ned Blackhawk. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.0
Sarah Knott. Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History.0
Isabel Hofmeyr. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House.0
Michael E. Woods. Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy.0
Igor Fedyukin. The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia.0
Anelise Hanson Shrout. Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy.0
Ellen Messer-Davidow. The Making of Reverse Discrimination: How DeFunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection.0
Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South.0
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics.0
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