American Historical Review

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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
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
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism.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
Patrick J. Charles. Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States.5
Thomas Munck. Conflict and Enlightenment: Print and Political Culture in Europe, 1635–1795.4
Derrick R. Spires. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.3
“Improper and Almost Rebellious Conduct”3
Lorena V. Márquez. La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento.3
Claire Whitlinger. Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi.3
Cian T. McMahon. The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine.3
Anna Toropova. Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin.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
Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923).2
Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship.2
Hagar Kotef. The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine.2
Elisabeth Israels Perry. After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia’s New York.2
Antagonizing2
Peter E. Hamilton. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization.2
Cécile Vidal. Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.2
Jeff Eden. God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War.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
Malte Fuhrmann. Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire2
Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601.1
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games.1
Alison Li. Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution.1
Timothy Alborn. All That Glittered: Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush.1
Knowing by Sensing1
Robert K. D. Colby. An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South.1
Merle L. Bowen. For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil.1
Pepijn Corduwener. The Rise and Fall of the People’s Parties: A History of Democracy in Western Europe since 1918.1
Robin Waterfield. The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks.1
Stan Neal. Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819–67.1
Graydon A. Tunstall The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War.1
Smell, History, and Heritage1
Eating on the Ground1
Love, Joy, and Hope1
Jonathan Sperber. The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.1
Tiya Miles. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.1
Lisa T. Sarasohn. Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin.1
Rebecca Clifford. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust.1
Erik R. Scott. Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World.1
Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species1
John William Nelson. Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent.1
Max Fraser. Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class.1
Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, and Bertrand Taithe. The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912.1
Nora Elizabeth Barakat. Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire.1
Armand S. La Potin. Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853–1934: Reluctant Warrior.1
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church1
Kristalyn Marie Shefveland. Selling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole.1
Quito Swan. Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World.1
E. James West. Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America.1
Peter Kuper. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.1
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.1
Maribel Morey. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order.1
Stephen Tuffnell. Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America.1
Lines of Fate1
Dominque Valérian. Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval.1
Late Acceleration1
Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation1
Stephan Malinowski. Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance.1
Kai Jun Chen. Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China.1
Tanalís Padilla. Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico.1
Alexey Golubev. The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia.1
Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance.1
Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of History1
Philipp Ther. The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492.1
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
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
A World of Contradictions0
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
Greg Hall. Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox.0
Avner Wishnitzer. As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark.0
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900.0
Daniel S. Chard. Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism.0
Tyler C. Kirk. After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North.0
Karin Vélez. The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World.0
Kevin Boyle. The Shattering: America in the 1960s.0
Benjamin B. Cohen. An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj.0
Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg. Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace.0
Owen Stanwood. The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire.0
Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion.0
Sara E. Lampert. Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater 1790–1850.0
Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution.0
Karlos K. Hill and David Dodson. The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History.0
Isabella Cosse. Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic.0
Susan Grant. Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism.0
Jeremy Prestholdt. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac, and Bin Laden.0
William Sewell on Capitalism and Civic Equality0
Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History.0
Stephan F. Miescher. A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana.0
Paul Corner. Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator.0
Sándor Horváth. Children of Communism: Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s. Translated by Thomas Cooper.0
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.0
When Hay Was King0
Tom Stammers. The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790–1890.0
Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo. The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco’s New Society in Spain, 1936–1950.0
Richard Bell. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.0
Lauren Braun-Strumfels. Partners in Gatekeeping: How Italy Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy over Ten Pivotal Years, 1891–1901.0
Sam Wetherell. Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain.0
Thomas A. Schwartz. Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.0
Collected Essays0
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy.0
Matthew K. Shannon. Mission Manifest American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century.0
Thomas Blake Earle. The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Ashley Walsh. Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707–18000
Earlie Thorpe: Antiracist Scholar Who Centered Black Voices in US History0
Rowan Dorin. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe.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
T. K. Wilson. Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern.0
Michael E. Woods. Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy.0
A Note on the AHA’s Racist Histories Initiative and Book Reviewing0
Introduction0
Julia M. Gossard. Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World.0
Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain.0
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics.0
Barbara Hahn. Technology in the Industrial Revolution.0
Mark W. Deets. A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal.0
Rebecca Ayako Bennette. Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One.0
Juned Shaikh. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor.0
Lula’s Prison Letters and the Brazilian Presidential Papers: Archives, Readings, and Uses0
Sören Urbansky. Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border.0
Resilience in African History0
Seth Jacobs. Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy.0
Excoriating Stalin, Criticizing Mao0
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor0
The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History0
Alex Dowdall. Communities under Fire: Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914–1918.0
Carolyn James. A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519.0
Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam.0
Elijah Doro. Plunder for Profit: A Socio-Environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe.0
Noura Erakat. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.0
Globalizing Publics and the Future of Political History0
Óscar Alfredo Ruiz Fernández. England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade and Naval Relations, 1604–25.0
Timothy Verhoeven. Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Remembering the Fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge0
Marc Becker. The CIA in Ecuador.0
State Power and the Infrastructure of Immigrant Removal0
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
Marina Rustow. The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.0
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders.0
Comment by Linda Gordon0
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India0
Michael J. Brown. Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics.0
Lee B. Wilson. Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783.0
Adam Bisno. Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875–1933.0
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy.0
Mark Peterson. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865.0
Christopher James Bonner. Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship.0
Jamie A. Gianoutsos. The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660.0
The 1619 Project Forum0
Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.0
Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City.0
Proximity Matters0
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers. The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War.0
Mortal Designs, Warda, and My First and Only Love0
Nations, Politics, and the Role of History in East Central Europe0
Laurie A. Wilkie. Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875.0
Lindsey Dodd. Feeling Memory: Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France.0
H. Glenn Penny. German History Unbound: From 1750 to the Present.0
Documents and Bibliographies0
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City.0
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII.0
Wen-Qing Ngoei. Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia.0
J. Megan Greene. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II.0
Jessica Stites Mor. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left.0
Deborah Willis. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.0
Raymond B. Blake and Melvin Baker. Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road Towards Confederation.0
Xuelei Huang. Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell.0
Samuel Fury Childs Daly. A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War.0
Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age.0
Janet Greenlees. When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries.0
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom0
The Price of Progress0
Ian Ona Johnson. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War.0
Nimisha Barton. Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945.0
Xin Wen. The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road.0
Stephen Stuempfle. Port of Spain: The Construction of a Caribbean City, 1888–19620
Documents and Bibliographies0
Rob Boddice. Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914.0
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State.0
Dane Kennedy. Mungo Park’s Ghost: The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa.0
Austin Dean. China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937.0
Gillis J. Harp. Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History.0
Caroline E. Janney. Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox.0
Mark Towsey. Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840.0
Ronald Grigor Suny. Stalin: Passage to Revolution.0
Mir Yarfitz. Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina.0
Isabel Hofmeyr. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House.0
Matthew Kerry.Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic.0
Challenging American Hegemony0
Ned Blackhawk. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.0
Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease.0
Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South.0
Julian Gewirtz. Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s.0
Igor Fedyukin. The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia.0
Teaching Historical Thinking Through a Primary Source Database0
Anelise Hanson Shrout. Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy.0
The Ecology of Exchange: The Monetization of Roman Egypt0
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016.0
Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance.0
Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay, eds. Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions.0
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. A Black Women’s History of the United States. (ReVisioning American History.)0
Owen Davies. Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum.0
Inside the History Lab0
Mark Roseman. Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany.0
Michael C. Steiner. Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism.0
Stephen Preskill. Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice.0
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970.0
Andrew Denning. Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa.0
Tom Sapsford. Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures.0
Philipp Nielsen. Between Heimat and Hatred: Jews and the Right in Germany, 1871–1935.0
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage0
Sinem Arcak Casale. Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639.0
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular. The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina.0
Rosie Bsheer. Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia.0
Melvin L. Rogers. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.0
Sarah Knott. Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History.0
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History0
Dana M. Caldemeyer. Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age.0
Donald Bloxham. History and Morality.0
Mitchell L. Hammond. Epidemics and the Modern World.0
Paul S. Hirsch. Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism.0
Philippa Koch. The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America.0
Steven Trout. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire: War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy.0
Arang Keshavarzian. Making Space For the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East.0
Ellen Messer-Davidow. The Making of Reverse Discrimination: How DeFunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection.0
James G. Clark. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History.0
Kerry Walters. Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History.0
Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.0
Lula and His Politics of Cunning0
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