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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
William G. Thomas III. A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War.18
Geraint Thomas. Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain.14
Peter Sloman. Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain.14
Dara Orenstein. Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism.12
The History of Nation-States as the History of Human Rights?12
Global feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean10
Peter Wetzler. Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire.10
Cherisse Jones-Branch. Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965.8
Rebekah E. Pite. Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region.7
Colin Koopman. How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person.7
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu. Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age.6
Rodney Hessinger. Smitten: Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening.6
F. Evan Nooe. Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South.5
Africa’s Revolutionary Nineteenth Century and the Idea of the “Scramble”5
Introducing AfriWetu5
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism.5
Paper Tracings in the Spectacularly Boisterous Archive of Slavery5
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer. Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany.4
Thomas Munck. Conflict and Enlightenment: Print and Political Culture in Europe, 1635–1795.4
Patrick J. Charles. Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States.4
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.4
Lorena V. Márquez. La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento.3
Cian T. McMahon. The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine.3
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
Claire Whitlinger. Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi.3
“Improper and Almost Rebellious Conduct”3
Roger R. Reese. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917. (Modern War Studies.)3
Derrick R. Spires. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.2
Richard W. Pointer. Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America.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
Anna Toropova. Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin.2
Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship.2
Jeff Eden. God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War.2
Malte Fuhrmann. Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire2
Antagonizing2
Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923).2
Hagar Kotef. The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine.2
Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization.2
Merle L. Bowen. For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil.1
Adrienne Edgar. Intermarriage and the Friendship of the Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia.1
John William Nelson. Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent.1
Stephen Tuffnell. Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America.1
Armand S. La Potin. Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853–1934: Reluctant Warrior.1
Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith. Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea: A History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth Century.1
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church1
Timothy Alborn. All That Glittered: Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush.1
Elizabeth Andrews Bond. The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France.1
On Transnational and International History1
Beyond 2020: Collecting Time Capsules in a Year of Pandemic1
Lines of Fate1
Dominque Valérian. Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval.1
Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601.1
Maribel Morey. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order.1
Jessica Wang. Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920.1
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.1
Graydon A. Tunstall The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War.1
Philipp Ther. The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492.1
Elisabeth Israels Perry. After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia’s New York.1
Rebecca Clifford. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust.1
Tanalís Padilla. Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico.1
Annie Tracy Samuel. The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.1
Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance.1
E. James West. Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America.1
Smell, History, and Heritage1
Love, Joy, and Hope1
“Toilet Paper Panic”: Uncertainty and Insecurity in Early 1970s Japan1
Walking While Indian, Walking While Black: Policing in a Colonial City1
Joseph F. OCallaghan. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age: Law and Justice in Thirteenth-Century Castile.1
Alison Li. Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution.1
Erik R. Scott. Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World.1
To Live and Die in Hip-Hop1
Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation1
Late Acceleration1
Kate Fullagar. The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire.1
Adam Mestyan. Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East.1
Stephan Malinowski. Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance.1
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games.1
Susan Barton. Internment in Switzerland during the First World War.1
Jonathan Sperber. The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.1
Robin Waterfield. The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks.1
Peter Kuper. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.1
Stan Neal. Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819–67.1
The Planetary Turn1
Knowing by Sensing1
Alexey Golubev. The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia.1
James Epstein and David Karr. British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths: Seditious Hearts.1
From the Editor’s Desk: Persilschein1
Lisa T. Sarasohn. Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin.1
Toward an Archival Reckoning1
Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species1
Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of History1
Kelly A. Hammond. China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II.1
Tiya Miles. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.1
Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, and Bertrand Taithe. The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912.1
Eating on the Ground1
Tamara Gene Myers. Youth Squad: Policing Children in the Twentieth Century.0
Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age.0
Grassroots Glasnost: Experimental Art, Participation, and Civic Life in 1980s East Berlin0
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970.0
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India0
Collected Essays0
Rebecca Ayako Bennette. Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One.0
Nimisha Barton. Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945.0
Sören Urbansky. Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border.0
Tom Sapsford. Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures.0
France’s Role in the Holocaust Revisited: Marrus and Paxton’s Vichy France and the Jews0
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City.0
Rowan Dorin. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe.0
Raymond B. Blake and Melvin Baker. Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road Towards Confederation.0
Nations, Politics, and the Role of History in East Central Europe0
H. Glenn Penny. German History Unbound: From 1750 to the Present.0
Daniel S. Chard. Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism.0
Gillis J. Harp. Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History.0
Barbara Hahn. Technology in the Industrial Revolution.0
Mitchell L. Hammond. Epidemics and the Modern World.0
Noura Erakat. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.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
Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease.0
Mark Peterson. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865.0
Ali Mirsepassi. Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State.0
Kimberly S. Alexander. Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era.0
Sándor Horváth. Children of Communism: Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s. Translated by Thomas Cooper.0
Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo. The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco’s New Society in Spain, 1936–1950.0
Lior B. Sternfeld. Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran.0
Challenging American Hegemony0
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016.0
Xin Wen. The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road.0
Collected Essays0
Benjamin Quarles: He Showed the Way0
Juned Shaikh. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor.0
Jessica Stites Mor. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left.0
A Note on the AHA’s Racist Histories Initiative and Book Reviewing0
Ulrike Freitag. A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.0
Austin Dean. China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937.0
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900.0
Isabel Hofmeyr. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House.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
Communications0
Nimi Wariboko. Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory.0
State Power and the Infrastructure of Immigrant Removal0
Lee B. Wilson. Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783.0
Michael E. Woods. Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy.0
Paul Corner. Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator.0
Jennifer Graber. The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West.0
Ian Ona Johnson. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War.0
Thomas A. Schwartz. Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.0
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics.0
Richard Bell. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.0
Lula and His Politics of Cunning0
Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain.0
The Ecology of Exchange: The Monetization of Roman Egypt0
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy.0
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.0
Documents and Bibliographies0
T. K. Wilson. Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern.0
A World of Contradictions0
Laurel Leff. Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe.0
Thomas Blake Earle. The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Igor Fedyukin. The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia.0
Rob Boddice. Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914.0
The 1619 Project Forum0
Jeremy Zallen. American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865.0
Alex Dowdall. Communities under Fire: Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914–1918.0
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State.0
Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion.0
Inside the History Lab0
Introduction0
Ryan Dominic Crewe. The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600.0
Susan Grant. Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism.0
Janet Greenlees. When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries.0
Joanna Newman. Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945.0
Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg. Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace.0
Resilience in African History0
Kerry Walters. Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History.0
Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.0
Garrett Felber. Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State.0
Karlos K. Hill and David Dodson. The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History.0
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage0
The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History0
Chris Millington. A History of Fascism in France: From the First World War to the National Front.0
Matthew Kerry.Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic.0
Julian Gewirtz. Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s.0
Greg Hall. Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox.0
Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution.0
Christopher James Bonner. Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship.0
Bjørn F. Stillion Southard. Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement; Richard Peter Anderson.0
Alexander Vazansky. An Army in Crisis: Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in Germany, 1968–1975.0
Stephen Stuempfle. Port of Spain: The Construction of a Caribbean City, 1888–19620
Caroline E. Janney. Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox.0
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII.0
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders.0
Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South.0
Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay, eds. Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions.0
Deborah Willis. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.0
Owen Davies. Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum.0
Marina Rustow. The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.0
Michael C. Steiner. Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism.0
James G. Clark. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History.0
Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City.0
Amin Samman. History in Financial Times.0
Seth Jacobs. Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy.0
Paul S. Hirsch. Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism.0
Lula’s Prison Letters and the Brazilian Presidential Papers: Archives, Readings, and Uses0
Laurie A. Wilkie. Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875.0
Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.0
Avner Wishnitzer. As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark.0
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History0
Excoriating Stalin, Criticizing Mao0
Donald Bloxham. History and Morality.0
Wen-Qing Ngoei. Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia.0
Kevin Boyle. The Shattering: America in the 1960s.0
Earlie Thorpe: Antiracist Scholar Who Centered Black Voices in US History0
Carolyn James. A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519.0
Steven Trout. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire: War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy.0
J. Megan Greene. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II.0
Karin Vélez. The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World.0
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor0
Marc Becker. The CIA in Ecuador.0
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy.0
Teaching Historical Thinking Through a Primary Source Database0
Ronald Grigor Suny. Stalin: Passage to Revolution.0
Comment by Linda Gordon0
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. A Black Women’s History of the United States. (ReVisioning American History.)0
Tamar Herzig. A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy.0
Timothy Verhoeven. Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Mark Towsey. Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840.0
The Price of Progress0
Stephen Preskill. Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice.0
Alice Y. Tseng. Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940.0
William Sewell on Capitalism and Civic Equality0
Mortal Designs, Warda, and My First and Only Love0
Óscar Alfredo Ruiz Fernández. England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade and Naval Relations, 1604–25.0
Melvin L. Rogers. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.0
Kibogo and The Daughters of Nandi0
Benjamin B. Cohen. An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj.0
Globalizing Publics and the Future of Political History0
Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam.0
“Tunisian Islam,” Women’s Rights, and the Limits of French Empire in Twentieth-Century North Africa0
Sinem Arcak Casale. Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639.0
Sara E. Lampert. Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater 1790–1850.0
Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History.0
Dana M. Caldemeyer. Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age.0
Anelise Hanson Shrout. Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy.0
Jeremy Prestholdt. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac, and Bin Laden.0
Ellen Messer-Davidow. The Making of Reverse Discrimination: How DeFunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection.0
Tom Stammers. The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790–1890.0
Philippa Koch. The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America.0
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom0
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