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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Four Black Deaths40
The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood17
The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept15
The Privilege of Family History13
Seeing Black America in Iran12
St. Xenia and the Gleaners of Leningrad10
The Global Politics of Anti-Racism: A View from the Canal Zone9
Introduction9
Aztecs Abroad? Uncovering the Early Indigenous Atlantic8
Children’s History Matters6
Old Age in European Cultures: A Significant Presence from Antiquity to the Present5
Gender History, Global History, and Atlantic Slavery5
AHR Conversation: Black Internationalism4
History of Children and Childhood—Being and Becoming, Dependent and Independent4
The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States)4
Fiduciary Colonialism4
Sounds of February, Smells of October: The Russian Revolution as Sensory Experience4
Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence3
Is the History of Childhood Ready for the World? A Response to “The Kids Aren’t All Right”3
Blood and Bone, Tears and Oil3
Listening to Extinction: Early Conservation Radio Sounds and the Silences of Species3
The Kibbutz and the Ashram: Sarvodaya Agriculture, Israeli Aid, and the Global Imaginaries of Indian Development3
Slow History3
On Silence and History3
The Racialization of International Law after the Haitian Revolution: The Holy See and National Sovereignty3
Made in Manchuria: The Transnational Origins of Socialist Industrialization in Maoist China3
Europe’s Forgotten Unfinished Revolution: Peasant Power, Social Mobilization, and Communism in the Southern Italian Countryside, 1943–453
Little Voices: The Importance and Limitations of Children’s Histories3
The Still-Emerging World of History Podcasting2
The Search for the Kayendo: Recovering the Lowcountry Rice Toolkit2
Archiving the Chilean Revolution2
The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance: Romani Holocaust Testimony and the Perils of Digital Scholarship2
History’s Future in the Age of the Internet2
The Wages of Harlotry—Luise White’s The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (1990–2020)2
Surviving the Nakba: On Palestinians’ Political Possibilities and Limitations in 19482
“Do You Call Yourself a White Man?”2
Deep Play? Video Games and the Historical Imaginary2
Sara Collins. The Confessions of Frannie Langton.2
Whiffstory2
Living with the Past: Thoughts on Community Collaboration and Difficult History in Native American and Indigenous Studies2
Historians and Ethics: Finding Anne Moody2
Dóra Vargha. Polio across the Iron Curtain: Hungary’s Cold War with an Epidemic.2
Power, Knowledge, and the Epistemic Contract on Age: The Case of Colonial India2
Critical Digital Archives: A Review from Archival Studies2
Walking While Indian, Walking While Black: Policing in a Colonial City2
Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation2
A Feminist Methodology of Age-Grading and History in Africa2
Decolonizing Renaissance Humanism2
Historians and Their Publics, Then and Now2
Comment From Revolution to Recognition: Haiti’s Place in the Post-1804 Atlantic World1
John Henderson. Florence under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City.1
Cold Business and the Hot Take1
Solidarity in the Galilee1
Smell, History, and Heritage1
Jill Lepore. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future.1
Carmen M. K. Gitre. Acting Egyptian: Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930.1
Community-Engaged History: A Reflection on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre1
What Does Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Do?1
Bonnie Effros. Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa.1
The Empire Strikes Back from Within: Colonial Liberation and the Korean Minority Question at the Birth of Postwar Japan, 1945–471
Ilana Feldman. Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics.1
Bruno Belhoste. Paris Savant: Capital of Science in the Age of Enlightenment.1
Emily Ogden. Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism.1
Thomas Milan Konda. Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America. Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum. A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democ1
Robert E. Kohler. Inside Science: Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science.1
Wade Graham. Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaiʻi.1
Joshua Specht. Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America.1
Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson. The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools; Sam Wineburg1
Writing Apartheid: Ethnographic Collaborators and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century South Africa1
Susan Nance. Rodeo: An Animal History.1
Ali Erken. America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances.1
Matthew H. Edney. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History.1
Vocabula Amatoria: A Glossary of French Culinary Sex Terms1
Age and the Construction of Gendered and Raced Citizenship in the United States1
Douglas M. O’Reagan. Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War.1
The Limits of Brotherhood1
David Kieran. Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military’s Mental Health Crisis.1
Casey P. Cater. Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South.1
Perrin Selcer. The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth.1
Daniel A. Stolz. The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt.1
“The Only Industry That Can Make Us Hold Our Own”: Black Agrarianism in South Africa from a Transatlantic Perspective, ca. 1910–19301
Lydia Barnett. After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe.1
Raja Adal. Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education.1
Jennifer Thomson. The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health.1
Translating God on the Borders of Sovereignty1
Fadi A. Bardawil. Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation.1
Moritz von Brescius. German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers.1
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand. Medieval Literature on Display: Heritage and Culture in Modern Germany.1
Jacob S. T. Dlamini. Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park.1
Michael Jonas. Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War.1
Biafras of the Mind: French Postcolonial Humanitarianism in Global Conceptual History1
Adam R. Hodge. Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868.1
Introduction1
Linda Chisholm. Between Worlds: German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa.1
Claire E. Edington. Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam.1
The Algorithm1
Ingrid de Zwarte. The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944–1945.1
A Holocaust Paragon of Virtue’s Rise to Fame1
E. Elena Songster. Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon.1
Kwasi Konadu. Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation.1
Matthew Oram. The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America.1
Going to the Territory1
Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend. Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan.1
Chelsi Mueller. The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars.1
Mike Leigh, director. Peterloo.1
Jeff Kosseff. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet.1
Khaled Fahmy. In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt.1
From the Editor’s Desk1
Barbara Hahn. Technology in the Industrial Revolution.1
Agnotology in Palestine/Israel1
Blood Brothers1
Hugh Cagle. Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–17001
Darkness at Noon: On History, Narrative, and Domestic Violence1
Julius Scott’s Masterless Caribbean and the Force of Its Common Wind1
Farina King. The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century.1
Antoine Bousquet. The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone.1
Matteo Rizzo. Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis.1
Greg Whitesides. Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II.1
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China.1
Laurence Monnais. The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam.1
Empire on the Edge1
Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton. The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian 1
Andrew A. Robichaud. Animal City: The Domestication of America.1
Cynthia A. Ruder. Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space.1
Hans Pols. Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies.1
Teaching History with Video Games1
Simon Werrett. Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment.1
Communications1
Jessica Wang. Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920.1
Yael Zerubavel. Desert in the Promised Land.1
Meticulous Imprecision: Calculating Age in Colonial Spanish American Law1
Tensions of Transnationalism: Youth Rebellion, State Backlash, and 1968 in Poland1
Marixa Lasso. Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal.1
Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt. Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter.1
Joshua Eisenman. Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune.1
Atlantis Restored1
Katerina Gardikas. Landscapes of Disease: Malaria in Modern Greece.1
Nations, Politics, and the Role of History in East Central Europe1
Eugene McCarraher. The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.1
Repairing Damage: The Slave Ship Marcelin and the Haiti Trade in the Age of Abolition1
Dagmar Herzog. Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe.1
Finding Amica in the Archives: Navigating a Path between Strategic Collaboration and Independent Research1
“That City Af loat”1
Wilson J. Warren. Meat Makes People Powerful: A Global History of the Modern Era.1
The 1619 Project Forum1
Michael D. Gordin. Einstein in Bohemia.1
Rethinking Nationalism1
Befeathering the European: The Matter of Feathers in the Material Renaissance1
The Common Wind: A Masterful Study of the Masterless Revolutionary Atlantic1
Joy Lisi Rankin. A People’s History of Computing in the United States.1
In This Issue1
Trent MacNamara. Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas.1
Andrea E. Duffy. Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World.1
A Shared Toxic History1
The Iron Cage of Erasure: American Indian Sovereignty in Jill Lepore’s These Truths1
Shinjini Das. Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homoeopathy.1
Paul Bertrand. Documenting the Everyday in Medieval Europe: The Social Dimensions of a Writing Revolution, 1250–1350.1
The Agency Dilemma1
Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett, editors. Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A 1
Comment on Sarah Maza’s “The Kids Aren’t All Right”1
Reviewing History1
Pamela O. Long. Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome.1
Jean E. Jackson. Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia.1
James W. Martin. Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism.1
Wendy Kline. Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth.1
Jenny Andersson. The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post–Cold War Imagination.1
Heinrich Hartmann. The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War.1
Alan I. Marcus. Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915.1
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen. Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879–1909.1
Toward an Archival Reckoning1
Daniel Belgrad. The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in Seventies America.1
Kateřina Lišková. Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989.1
Erika Lee. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States.1
Owen Whooley. On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing.1
Elliott Young. Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System.1
Jennifer L. Derr. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt.1
Capitulations Redux: The Imperial Genealogy of the Post–World War I “Minority” Regimes1
More than the Name of the Rose1
Tara Nummedal. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany.1
Brent Maner. Germany’s Ancient Pasts: Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700.1
OUP accepted manuscript0
Matthew G. Stanard. The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock: Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium.0
Rana Mitter. China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism0
Oded Rabinovitch. The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France.0
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church0
Sarah Ansari and William Gould. Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan.0
In This Issue0
Anita Kurimay. Queer Budapest, 1873–1961.0
Rajeshwari Dutt. Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatán's Caste War, 1847–1901.0
Matthias Röhrig Assunção. De Caboclos a Bem-te-vis: Formação do Campesinato numa Sociedade Escravista: Maranhão 1800–1850. 2nd ed.0
Film Reviews: Introduction0
Arnold A. Offner. Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country.0
Robert Culp. The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism.0
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History0
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India0
Jay Howard Geller. The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction.0
Daniela Saresella. Catholics and Communists in Twentieth-Century Italy: Between Conflict and Dialogue.0
Ian Rich. Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions: The Mass Murder of Jewish Civilians, 1940–1942.0
Gregory Smits. Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650.0
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan. As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis.0
Amy J. Rutenberg. Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance.0
Suman Seth. Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire; Tim Lockley. Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life an0
Daniel Stahl. Hunt for Nazis: South America’s Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes.0
Laura McEnaney. Postwar: Waging Peace in Chicago.0
Simon Levis Sullam. The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy. Translated by Oona Smyth and Claudia Patane. Foreword by David I. Kertzer.0
Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin. Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland.0
Jeremy Prestholdt. Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac, and Bin Laden.0
Alexander Vazansky. An Army in Crisis: Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in Germany, 1968–1975.0
Cécile Vidal. Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.0
Julia Hell. The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome.0
Michael Mark Cohen. The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly.0
Dustin A. Abnet. The American Robot: A Cultural History.0
Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom and Race in the Eighteenth Century. https://www.runaways.gla.ac.uk/.0
Communications0
Hideaki Kami. Diplomacy Meets Migration: US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War.0
Ann Durkin Keating. The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire.0
Jeffrey D. Needell. The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro.0
Tom Segev. A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion.0
Taco Terpstra. Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions.0
Hendrik Hartog. The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North.0
Julie Orringer. The Flight Portfolio.0
Will Smiley. From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law.0
Edward L. Ayers. The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.0
Africa’s Revolutionary Nineteenth Century and the Idea of the “Scramble”0
Julia Sneeringer. A Social History of Early Rock ’n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to the Beatles, 1956–69.0
John Lindsay-Poland. Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism.0
Ava DuVernay, director. When They See Us.0
Karolina Hutková. The English East India Company’s Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850: Economy, Empire and Business.0
Liesbeth Corens. Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe.0
Giuliana Chamedes. A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe.0
Elisabeth Israels Perry. After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia’s New York.0
Kate Clarke Lemay. Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France.0
David Wootton. Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison.0
Niamh Gallagher. Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History0
Christian Raffensperger. Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe.0
Hagar Kotef. The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine.0
Steven Conn. Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools.0
Oliver Ayers. Laboured Protest: Black Civil Rights in New York City and Detroit during the New Deal and Second World War.0
J. Justin Castro. Apostles of Progress: Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico.0
Michael A. Schoeppner. Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America.0
Douglas K. Miller. Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century.0
Robert Harms. Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa.0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Susana Draper. 1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy.0
Jamie Stoops. The Thorny Path: Pornography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain.0
Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Islam in Pakistan: A History.0
Harriet Fertik. The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome.0
A Civics Primer for American History0
Kabria Baumgartner. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America.0
From the Editor’s Desk: Journal of the Plague Year0
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