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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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.12
The History of Nation-States as the History of Human Rights?10
Dara Orenstein. Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism.8
Peter Wetzler. Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire.6
Global feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean6
Rodney Hessinger. Smitten: Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening.5
Colin Koopman. How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person.5
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu. Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age.5
Cherisse Jones-Branch. Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965.5
Introducing AfriWetu5
Rebekah E. Pite. Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region.5
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism.4
F. Evan Nooe. Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South.4
Africa’s Revolutionary Nineteenth Century and the Idea of the “Scramble”4
Paper Tracings in the Spectacularly Boisterous Archive of Slavery4
Cian T. McMahon. The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine.3
Thomas Munck. Conflict and Enlightenment: Print and Political Culture in Europe, 1635–1795.3
Patrick J. Charles. Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States.3
Brendan Goff. Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism.3
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.3
Lorena V. Márquez. La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento.3
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer. Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany.3
Anna Toropova. Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin.2
Lewis A. Grossman. Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America.2
Jeff Eden. God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War.2
“Improper and Almost Rebellious Conduct”2
Roger R. Reese. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917. (Modern War Studies.)2
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
Robert Hellyer. Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups.2
Derrick R. Spires. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.2
Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship.2
Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization.2
Richard W. Pointer. Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America.2
Claire Whitlinger. Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi.2
Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of History1
From the Editor’s Desk: Persilschein1
Erik R. Scott. Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World.1
Toward an Archival Reckoning1
Maribel Morey. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order.1
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.1
Kelly A. Hammond. China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II.1
Adam Mestyan. Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East.1
Eating on the Ground1
John William Nelson. Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent.1
Love, Joy, and Hope1
Susan Barton. Internment in Switzerland during the First World War.1
Alexey Golubev. The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia.1
Robin Waterfield. The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks.1
Dominque Valérian. Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval.1
Stan Neal. Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819–67.1
The Planetary Turn1
Malte Fuhrmann. Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire1
Smell, History, and Heritage1
On Transnational and International History1
Lines of Fate1
Beyond 2020: Collecting Time Capsules in a Year of Pandemic1
Alison Li. Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution.1
Kate Fullagar. The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire.1
Tiya Miles. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.1
Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601.1
Community-Engaged History: A Reflection on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre1
Lisa T. Sarasohn. Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin.1
E. James West. Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America.1
Merle L. Bowen. For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil.1
Timothy Alborn. All That Glittered: Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush.1
Cécile Vidal. Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.1
Philipp Ther. The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492.1
Armand S. La Potin. Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853–1934: Reluctant Warrior.1
Rebecca Clifford. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust.1
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church1
Peter Kuper. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.1
Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation1
Annie Tracy Samuel. The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.1
Walking While Indian, Walking While Black: Policing in a Colonial City1
Late Acceleration1
Joseph F. OCallaghan. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age: Law and Justice in Thirteenth-Century Castile.1
Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species1
To Live and Die in Hip-Hop1
Knowing by Sensing1
Adrienne Edgar. Intermarriage and the Friendship of the Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia.1
Graydon A. Tunstall The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War.1
Jessica Wang. Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920.1
Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, and Bertrand Taithe. The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912.1
Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith. Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea: A History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth Century.1
Tanalís Padilla. Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico.1
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games.1
Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance.1
Jonathan Sperber. The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.1
Elisabeth Israels Perry. After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia’s New York.1
Stephen Tuffnell. Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America.1
Stephan Malinowski. Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance.1
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. A Black Women’s History of the United States. (ReVisioning American History.)0
Lior B. Sternfeld. Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran.0
Karlos K. Hill and David Dodson. The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History.0
Mortal Designs, Warda, and My First and Only Love0
Sándor Horváth. Children of Communism: Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s. Translated by Thomas Cooper.0
Wen-Qing Ngoei. Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia.0
Óscar Alfredo Ruiz Fernández. England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade and Naval Relations, 1604–25.0
Julian Gewirtz. Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s.0
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage0
Xin Wen. The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road.0
Matthew Kerry.Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic.0
Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.0
“Tunisian Islam,” Women’s Rights, and the Limits of French Empire in Twentieth-Century North Africa0
Benjamin B. Cohen. An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj.0
Isabel Hofmeyr. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House.0
Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam.0
Rowan Dorin. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe.0
Ned Blackhawk. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.0
State Power and the Infrastructure of Immigrant Removal0
Samuel Fury Childs Daly. A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War.0
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
Anelise Hanson Shrout. Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy.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
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom0
Jennifer Graber. The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West.0
Marina Rustow. The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.0
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
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970.0
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.0
Seth Jacobs. Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy.0
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
Ulrike Freitag. A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.0
Paul R. Deslandes. The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham.0
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City.0
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900.0
Raymond B. Blake and Melvin Baker. Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road Towards Confederation.0
Jeremy Zallen. American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865.0
Karin Vélez. The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World.0
Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion.0
Barbara Hahn. Technology in the Industrial Revolution.0
Introduction0
Ronald Grigor Suny. Stalin: Passage to Revolution.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
Mark Peterson. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865.0
Joanna Newman. Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945.0
Timothy Verhoeven. Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Greg Hall. Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox.0
Susan Grant. Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism.0
Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo. The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco’s New Society in Spain, 1936–1950.0
Garrett Felber. Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State.0
William Sewell on Capitalism and Civic Equality0
Jessica Stites Mor. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left.0
Kerry Walters. Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History.0
Alexander Vazansky. An Army in Crisis: Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in Germany, 1968–1975.0
H. Glenn Penny. German History Unbound: From 1750 to the Present.0
Alex Dowdall. Communities under Fire: Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914–1918.0
The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History0
Kevin Boyle. The Shattering: America in the 1960s.0
Daniel S. Chard. Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism.0
Benjamin Quarles: He Showed the Way0
Nimi Wariboko. Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory.0
Stephen Stuempfle. Port of Spain: The Construction of a Caribbean City, 1888–19620
Igor Fedyukin. The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia.0
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII.0
Isabella Cosse. Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic.0
Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South.0
Ellen Messer-Davidow. The Making of Reverse Discrimination: How DeFunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection.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
Paul Corner. Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator.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
Richard Bell. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.0
Amin Samman. History in Financial Times.0
Tamara Gene Myers. Youth Squad: Policing Children in the Twentieth Century.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
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy.0
Sören Urbansky. Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border.0
Christopher James Bonner. Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship.0
Collected Essays0
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History0
Nations, Politics, and the Role of History in East Central Europe0
Donald Bloxham. History and Morality.0
Thomas Blake Earle. The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Avner Wishnitzer. As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark.0
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State.0
Carolyn James. A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519.0
The 1619 Project Forum0
J. Megan Greene. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II.0
Noura Erakat. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.0
Inside the History Lab0
Teaching Historical Thinking Through a Primary Source Database0
Kimberly S. Alexander. Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era.0
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016.0
Marc Becker. The CIA in Ecuador.0
Janet Greenlees. When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries.0
Tamar Herzig. A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy.0
Challenging American Hegemony0
Resilience in African History0
Comment by Linda Gordon0
Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.0
Alice Y. Tseng. Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940.0
Juned Shaikh. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor.0
Earlie Thorpe: Antiracist Scholar Who Centered Black Voices in US History0
The Price of Progress0
A Note on the AHA’s Racist Histories Initiative and Book Reviewing0
Caroline E. Janney. Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox.0
Chris Millington. A History of Fascism in France: From the First World War to the National Front.0
Rob Boddice. Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914.0
Globalizing Publics and the Future of Political History0
Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution.0
Sinem Arcak Casale. Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639.0
Stephen Preskill. Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice.0
Sara E. Lampert. Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater 1790–1850.0
Julia M. Gossard. Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World.0
Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History.0
Dana M. Caldemeyer. Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age.0
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders.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
Owen Davies. Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum.0
Jeremy Prestholdt. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac, and Bin Laden.0
Ian Ona Johnson. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War.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
Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City.0
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India0
Lula and His Politics of Cunning0
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
Laurie A. Wilkie. Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875.0
Collected Essays0
Tom Sapsford. Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures.0
Documents and Bibliographies0
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
Excoriating Stalin, Criticizing Mao0
Communications0
Melvin L. Rogers. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.0
Austin Dean. China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937.0
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor0
Gillis J. Harp. Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History.0
Steven Trout. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire: War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy.0
Mitchell L. Hammond. Epidemics and the Modern World.0
Ryan Dominic Crewe. The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600.0
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy.0
Ali Mirsepassi. Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State.0
Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg. Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace.0
Mark Towsey. Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840.0
Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease.0
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