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 2021-08-01 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
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
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
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
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
Tiya Miles. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.1
Jonathan Sperber. The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.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
Nora Elizabeth Barakat. Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire.1
Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, and Bertrand Taithe. The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912.1
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
Gregg Mitman. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.1
Peter Kuper. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.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
Alexey Golubev. The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia.1
Tanalís Padilla. Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico.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
Adam Mestyan. Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East.1
Annie Tracy Samuel. The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.1
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
Owen Davies. Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum.0
Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease.0
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016.0
Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay, eds. Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions.0
Challenging American Hegemony0
The Ecology of Exchange: The Monetization of Roman Egypt0
Tom Sapsford. Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures.0
Julian Gewirtz. Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s.0
Michael C. Steiner. Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism.0
Teaching Historical Thinking Through a Primary Source Database0
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970.0
Inside the History Lab0
Melvin L. Rogers. The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.0
Leah DeVun. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance.0
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage0
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. A Black Women’s History of the United States. (ReVisioning American History.)0
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular. The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina.0
Andrew Denning. Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa.0
Mitchell L. Hammond. Epidemics and the Modern World.0
Mark Roseman. Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany.0
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History0
Stephen Preskill. Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice.0
Donald Bloxham. History and Morality.0
Arang Keshavarzian. Making Space For the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East.0
Philipp Nielsen. Between Heimat and Hatred: Jews and the Right in Germany, 1871–1935.0
Paul S. Hirsch. Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism.0
Sinem Arcak Casale. Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639.0
Steven Trout. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire: War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy.0
Rosie Bsheer. Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia.0
Aaron S. Lecklider. Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.0
Sarah Knott. Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History.0
Dana M. Caldemeyer. Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age.0
Kerry Walters. Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History.0
Ellen Messer-Davidow. The Making of Reverse Discrimination: How DeFunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection.0
Philippa Koch. The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America.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
Greg Hall. Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox.0
Lula and His Politics of Cunning0
Rebecca Ayako Bennette. Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One.0
James G. Clark. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History.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
Avner Wishnitzer. As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark.0
Owen Stanwood. The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire.0
A World of Contradictions0
Kevin Boyle. The Shattering: America in the 1960s.0
Benjamin B. Cohen. An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj.0
Karin Vélez. The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World.0
Isabella Cosse. Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic.0
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900.0
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
Paul Corner. Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator.0
Susan Herbst. A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion.0
Jeremy Prestholdt. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac, and Bin Laden.0
Clare Anderson. Convicts: A Global History.0
Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg. Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace.0
Richard Bell. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home.0
Susan Grant. Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism.0
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.0
Tom Stammers. The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790–1890.0
Karlos K. Hill and David Dodson. The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History.0
Sándor Horváth. Children of Communism: Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s. Translated by Thomas Cooper.0
Thomas Blake Earle. The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America.0
William Sewell on Capitalism and Civic Equality0
Thomas A. Schwartz. Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.0
Stephan F. Miescher. A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana.0
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy.0
Lauren Braun-Strumfels. Partners in Gatekeeping: How Italy Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy over Ten Pivotal Years, 1891–1901.0
Jeremy Zallen. American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865.0
When Hay Was King0
Earlie Thorpe: Antiracist Scholar Who Centered Black Voices in US History0
Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo. The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco’s New Society in Spain, 1936–1950.0
Laurel Leff. Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe.0
Introduction0
Sam Wetherell. Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain.0
T. K. Wilson. Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern.0
Collected Essays0
A Note on the AHA’s Racist Histories Initiative and Book Reviewing0
Matthew K. Shannon. Mission Manifest American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century.0
Mark W. Deets. A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal.0
Ashley Walsh. Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707–18000
Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain.0
Rowan Dorin. No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe.0
Barbara Hahn. Technology in the Industrial Revolution.0
Julia M. Gossard. Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World.0
Michael E. Woods. Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy.0
Sören Urbansky. Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border.0
Resilience in African History0
Juned Shaikh. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor.0
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields. The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics.0
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor0
The Revolutionary Potential of Peace History0
Seth Jacobs. Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy.0
Lula’s Prison Letters and the Brazilian Presidential Papers: Archives, Readings, and Uses0
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
Alex Dowdall. Communities under Fire: Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914–1918.0
Remembering the Fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge0
Excoriating Stalin, Criticizing Mao0
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
Noura Erakat. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.0
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders.0
Carolyn James. A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519.0
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
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy.0
Marc Becker. The CIA in Ecuador.0
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India0
Lee B. Wilson. Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783.0
Timothy Verhoeven. Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America.0
Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City.0
Comment by Linda Gordon0
Christopher James Bonner. Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship.0
The 1619 Project Forum0
Marina Rustow. The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.0
Mark Peterson. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865.0
H. Glenn Penny. German History Unbound: From 1750 to the Present.0
Michael J. Brown. Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics.0
Mortal Designs, Warda, and My First and Only Love0
Adam Bisno. Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875–1933.0
Laurie A. Wilkie. Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875.0
Proximity Matters0
J. Megan Greene. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II.0
Jamie A. Gianoutsos. The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660.0
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City.0
Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.0
Wen-Qing Ngoei. Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia.0
Xuelei Huang. Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell.0
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers. The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War.0
Jessica Stites Mor. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left.0
Nations, Politics, and the Role of History in East Central Europe0
Raymond B. Blake and Melvin Baker. Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road Towards Confederation.0
Lindsey Dodd. Feeling Memory: Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France.0
The Price of Progress0
Documents and Bibliographies0
Harry Liebersohn. Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age.0
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII.0
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom0
Samuel Fury Childs Daly. A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War.0
Deborah Willis. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.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
Ian Ona Johnson. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War.0
Janet Greenlees. When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries.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
Documents and Bibliographies0
Mir Yarfitz. Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina.0
Nimisha Barton. Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945.0
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
Austin Dean. China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937.0
Ned Blackhawk. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.0
Rob Boddice. Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914.0
Isabel Hofmeyr. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House.0
Matthew Kerry.Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic.0
Anelise Hanson Shrout. Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy.0
Gillis J. Harp. Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History.0
Adele Logan Alexander. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South.0
Igor Fedyukin. The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia.0
Ronald Grigor Suny. Stalin: Passage to Revolution.0
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