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
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
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
Toward an Archival Reckoning1
Maribel Morey. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order.1
Kelly A. Hammond. China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II.1
Erik R. Scott. Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World.1
Adam Mestyan. Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East.1
Eating on the Ground1
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.1
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
Beyond 2020: Collecting Time Capsules in a Year of Pandemic1
Kate Fullagar. The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire.1
Lines of Fate1
Tiya Miles. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.1
Community-Engaged History: A Reflection on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre1
Alison Li. Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution.1
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
Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601.1
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
Joseph F. OCallaghan. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age: Law and Justice in Thirteenth-Century Castile.1
To Live and Die in Hip-Hop1
Late Acceleration1
Knowing by Sensing1
Adrienne Edgar. Intermarriage and the Friendship of the Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia.1
Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species1
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
Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of History1
From the Editor’s Desk: Persilschein1
Lior B. Sternfeld. Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran.0
“Tunisian Islam,” Women’s Rights, and the Limits of French Empire in Twentieth-Century North Africa0
Mortal Designs, Warda, and My First and Only Love0
Benjamin B. Cohen. An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj.0
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. A Black Women’s History of the United States. (ReVisioning American History.)0
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage0
Ned Blackhawk. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.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
Rowan Dorin. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe.0
Anelise Hanson Shrout. Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy.0
Matthew Kerry.Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic.0
Samuel Fury Childs Daly. A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War.0
Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.0
Michael E. Woods. Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy.0
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom0
Isabel Hofmeyr. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House.0
Marina Rustow. The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.0
Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam.0
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics.0
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970.0
State Power and the Infrastructure of Immigrant Removal0
Seth Jacobs. Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy.0
Lee B. Wilson. Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783.0
The Ecology of Exchange: The Monetization of Roman Egypt0
Jennifer Graber. The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West.0
Paul R. Deslandes. The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham.0
Thomas A. Schwartz. Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.0
A World of Contradictions0
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.0
Karin Vélez. The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World.0
Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain.0
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900.0
Ulrike Freitag. A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.0
Ronald Grigor Suny. Stalin: Passage to Revolution.0
T. K. Wilson. Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern.0
Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion.0
Laurel Leff. Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe.0
Jeremy Zallen. American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865.0
Timothy Verhoeven. Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City.0
Susan Grant. Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism.0
Raymond B. Blake and Melvin Baker. Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road Towards Confederation.0
Introduction0
William Sewell on Capitalism and Civic Equality0
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
Kerry Walters. Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History.0
Barbara Hahn. Technology in the Industrial Revolution.0
Joanna Newman. Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945.0
Alex Dowdall. Communities under Fire: Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914–1918.0
Greg Hall. Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox.0
The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History0
Mark Peterson. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865.0
Garrett Felber. Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State.0
Benjamin Quarles: He Showed the Way0
Jessica Stites Mor. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left.0
Nimi Wariboko. Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory.0
Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo. The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco’s New Society in Spain, 1936–1950.0
Isabella Cosse. Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic.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
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII.0
Paul Corner. Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator.0
Kevin Boyle. The Shattering: America in the 1960s.0
Ellen Messer-Davidow. The Making of Reverse Discrimination: How DeFunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection.0
Daniel S. Chard. Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism.0
Deborah Willis. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.0
Richard Bell. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.0
Stephen Stuempfle. Port of Spain: The Construction of a Caribbean City, 1888–19620
Tamara Gene Myers. Youth Squad: Policing Children in the Twentieth Century.0
Igor Fedyukin. The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia.0
James G. Clark. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History.0
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy.0
Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South.0
Collected Essays0
Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay, eds. Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions.0
Lula’s Prison Letters and the Brazilian Presidential Papers: Archives, Readings, and Uses0
Amin Samman. History in Financial Times.0
Avner Wishnitzer. As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark.0
Michael C. Steiner. Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism.0
Nations, Politics, and the Role of History in East Central Europe0
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
Noura Erakat. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.0
Paul S. Hirsch. Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism.0
Carolyn James. A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519.0
Thomas Blake Earle. The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Kimberly S. Alexander. Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era.0
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History0
Marc Becker. The CIA in Ecuador.0
Donald Bloxham. History and Morality.0
J. Megan Greene. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II.0
Challenging American Hegemony0
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State.0
Comment by Linda Gordon0
The 1619 Project Forum0
Teaching Historical Thinking Through a Primary Source Database0
Juned Shaikh. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor.0
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016.0
The Price of Progress0
Inside the History Lab0
Tamar Herzig. A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy.0
Chris Millington. A History of Fascism in France: From the First World War to the National Front.0
Resilience in African History0
Rob Boddice. Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914.0
Janet Greenlees. When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries.0
Sinem Arcak Casale. Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639.0
Earlie Thorpe: Antiracist Scholar Who Centered Black Voices in US History0
Stephen Preskill. Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice.0
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
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders.0
A Note on the AHA’s Racist Histories Initiative and Book Reviewing0
Julia M. Gossard. Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World.0
Caroline E. Janney. Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox.0
Dana M. Caldemeyer. Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age.0
Owen Davies. Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum.0
Globalizing Publics and the Future of Political History0
Ian Ona Johnson. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War.0
Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution.0
Philippa Koch. The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America.0
Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City.0
Sara E. Lampert. Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater 1790–1850.0
Lula and His Politics of Cunning0
Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History.0
Grassroots Glasnost: Experimental Art, Participation, and Civic Life in 1980s East Berlin0
Laurie A. Wilkie. Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875.0
Jeremy Prestholdt. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac, and Bin Laden.0
Documents and Bibliographies0
Tom Stammers. The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790–1890.0
Nimisha Barton. Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945.0
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India0
Austin Dean. China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937.0
Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age.0
Excoriating Stalin, Criticizing Mao0
Collected Essays0
Tom Sapsford. Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures.0
Ryan Dominic Crewe. The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600.0
Rebecca Ayako Bennette. Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One.0
Gillis J. Harp. Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History.0
Melvin L. Rogers. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.0
Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg. Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace.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
Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease.0
Communications0
Mitchell L. Hammond. Epidemics and the Modern World.0
Karlos K. Hill and David Dodson. The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History.0
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor0
Sándor Horváth. Children of Communism: Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s. Translated by Thomas Cooper.0
Steven Trout. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire: War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy.0
Ali Mirsepassi. Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State.0
Julian Gewirtz. Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s.0
Mark Towsey. Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840.0
Xin Wen. The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road.0
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy.0
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