Journal of American History

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of American History 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
“When I Remember I See Red: American Indian Art and Activism in California.”55
Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South14
Helter Skelter: An American Myth6
States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895–19452
Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World2
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century2
Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America1
Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean1
Smallpox in Washington's Army: Disease, War, and Society during the Revolutionary War1
American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–18651
Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press1
Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty1
The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience1
The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America1
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke1
The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State1
Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington's Sullivan Expedition of 17791
French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy1
Learning One's Native Tongue: Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America1
The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico1
Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left1
Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–19251
Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816–19161
The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam1
Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy1
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America1
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–17831
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All1
Engineered to Sell: European Emigrés and the Making of Consumer Capitalism1
American Intelligence: Small-Town News and Political Culture in Federalist New Hampshire1
Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/111
A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina1
Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land1
Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 19200
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War0
Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty0
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity0
My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss0
The Boys in the Boat0
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States0
They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty0
Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics0
Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed0
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands0
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West0
Between Utopia and Jim Crow: The Highlander Folk School, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Racial Borders of the Summer Camp, 1956–19610
Unnatural Resources: Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo0
The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream0
Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice0
Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands0
Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston0
Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I0
Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–18770
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding0
Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America0
A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite0
Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York0
When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s0
An Everlasting Circle: Letters of the Haskell Family of Abbeville, South Carolina, 1861–18650
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory0
Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore beyond John Waters and The Wire0
Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i0
Beacons of Liberty: International Free Soil and the Fight for Racial Justice in Antebellum America0
After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–20000
Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations0
The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 19000
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country0
Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott0
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making0
Disruption0
Boosting a New West: Pacific Coast Expositions, 1905–19160
Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America0
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire0
The Forgotten Diaspora: Mesoamerican Migrations and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands0
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century0
The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State0
The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War0
The Perils of Bilingualism: Anglo Anxiety and Spanish Instruction in the Borderlands0
The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction0
Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880–19540
Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement0
The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy0
Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma0
Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas0
Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South during America's Revolutionary Era0
Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City0
Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–19350
For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790–18610
Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic0
Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest0
Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism0
Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century0
Boundaries of Belonging: English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655–17150
The Male Chauvinist Pig: A History0
Confronting Crises: Asian American Histories for Uncertain Times0
Announcements0
Evanston Policies and Practices Directly Affecting the African American Community and California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans: Interim Report0
The Cigarette: A Political History0
Baptiste and Marianne's Balbásha': Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans, 1733–17480
The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr0
Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age0
The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy0
The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution0
Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State0
The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak0
The Unsolid South: Mass Politics and National Representation in a One-Party Enclave0
The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust0
Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life0
All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 18490
From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California0
The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America0
Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade0
Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History0
Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice0
Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas0
North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution0
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D0
Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America0
Heterosexual Histories0
Introduction0
This Pilgrim Nation: The Making of the Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America0
The American Buffalo0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail0
Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History0
Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York0
How the Court Became Supreme: The Origins of American Juristocracy0
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America0
Wielding an Unlikely Weapon: Black Americans, White Violence, and Damage Suits during the Early Days of Jim Crow0
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras0
Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America0
Strong Hearts and Healing Hands: Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920–19500
A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado0
When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War0
Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History0
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History0
My Heart Is Bound Up with Them: How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation0
Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization0
Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture0
Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States0
Against Sex: Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America0
To Build as Well as Destroy: American Nation Building in South Vietnam0
Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois0
Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America0
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre0
An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North0
The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City0
Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi0
True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party0
Like a Great Feudal Landlord: How Architecture and Slavery Created the World of the Upcountry Planter0
On the Books: Jim Crow and the Algorithms of Resistance0
Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative0
At the Base of the Giant's Throat: The Past and Future of America's Great Dams0
Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right0
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–19490
Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey: Caught in the Crossfire0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations0
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism0
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–18760
The Mobilized American West, 1940–20000
Envisioning Empire: The New British World from 1763 to 17730
Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides0
A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft0
Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War. An Oral History0
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall0
Introduction to Data in Social Context0
State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change0
Eastward of Good Hope: Early America in a Dangerous World0
Best-Laid Plans: The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Deal's Greenbelt Towns0
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line0
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World0
“Not on a Hill but Underground”: Relocating Expert Knowledge and Democratic Practice in the History Classroom0
Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State0
Revolution by Law: The Federal Government and the Desegregation of Alabama Schools0
The Man of the People: Political Dissent and the Making of the American Presidency0
Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism0
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution0
A Doctor for Rural America: The Reforms of Frances Sage Bradley0
Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore0
Beyond the Politics of the Closet: Gay Rights and the American State since the 1970s0
“Pool: A Social History of Segregation”0
Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change0
The Global History of Black Girlhood0
“Let Us Vote!”: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment0
The New Deal for Artists0
Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World0
Pam & Tommy0
We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California0
Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire0
Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century0
Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country0
Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis0
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela0
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated Effort.”0
Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal0
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession0
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki0
Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II0
Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific0
The American Robot: A Cultural History0
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West0
Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution0
The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman0
New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659–2000s0
Miss America's God: Faith and Identity in America's Oldest Pageant0
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White0
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States0
Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools0
The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine0
Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–18700
Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas0
“It Will Be Our Job to Make Them Workers”: Child Labor and Youth Employment in Postwar America0
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America0
A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America0
Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War0
Louisiana Slave Conspiracies0
Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870–19000
Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History0
The Reed Smoot Hearings: The Investigation of a Mormon Senator and the Transformation of an American Religion0
Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines0
From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States0
Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America0
These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–19120
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against Hiv/Aids0
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary0
Democracy and the Teaching of History in Our Perilous Moment0
How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874–19180
A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War0
Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing0
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe0
Martyred Women and White Power since the Civil Rights Era: From Kathy Ainsworth to Vicki Weaver0
Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond0
Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–17830
Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–19600
A Progressive History of American Democracy since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities0
National Monument Audit0
The Shattering: America in the 1960s0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement0
All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero0
John George Nicolay: The Man in Lincoln's Shadow0
Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic0
The Republican Party and the War on Poverty: 1964–19810
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia0
Chicanx Utopias: Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible0
Picturing Black History0
Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and Daca0
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