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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–18656
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–17833
Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–19253
French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy3
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All2
Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean2
Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press2
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke2
The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience1
The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico1
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America1
Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America1
Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land1
Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty1
The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State1
Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/111
A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina1
Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy1
Rethinking American Disasters1
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century1
Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World1
The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam1
Smallpox in Washington's Army: Disease, War, and Society during the Revolutionary War1
Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington's Sullivan Expedition of 17791
Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools1
Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816–19161
Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre0
Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age0
Partners in Gatekeeping: How Italy Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy over Ten Pivotal Years, 1891–19010
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity0
The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman0
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America0
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West0
Souls in Debt: The Transformation of Carceral Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century New England0
From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States0
Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey: Caught in the Crossfire0
The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction0
The Forgotten Diaspora: Mesoamerican Migrations and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands0
Like a Great Feudal Landlord: How Architecture and Slavery Created the World of the Upcountry Planter0
The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine0
Introduction to Data in Social Context0
Best-Laid Plans: The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Deal's Greenbelt Towns0
Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides0
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative0
“Not on a Hill but Underground”: Relocating Expert Knowledge and Democratic Practice in the History Classroom0
Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas0
Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States0
The Many Geographies of Urban Renewal: New Perspectives on the Housing Act of 19490
Beyond the Frame: Public History in Urgent Times0
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–18760
How the Court Became Supreme: The Origins of American Juristocracy0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country0
Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War. An Oral History0
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America0
Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America0
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton0
A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation0
Revolution by Law: The Federal Government and the Desegregation of Alabama Schools0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America0
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making0
The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America0
Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools0
“Let Us Vote!”: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment0
Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights0
They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty0
The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak0
At the Base of the Giant's Throat: The Past and Future of America's Great Dams0
Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic0
Strong Hearts and Healing Hands: Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920–19500
The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy0
“Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender”: Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression0
The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream0
State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change0
The Papers of Andrew Jackson: Volume XI, 18330
The Adverts 250 Project0
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade0
The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City0
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line0
The Male Chauvinist Pig: A History0
Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 19200
The Mobilized American West, 1940–20000
Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement0
Two Counties in Crisis: Measuring Political Change in Reconstruction Texas0
The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr0
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America0
“It Will Be Our Job to Make Them Workers”: Child Labor and Youth Employment in Postwar America0
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki0
Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal0
My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss0
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession0
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D0
The Boys in the Boat0
Yale and Slavery: A History0
Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy0
Public History Introduction0
New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659–2000s0
After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–20000
Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life0
Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i0
The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson0
Martyred Women and White Power since the Civil Rights Era: From Kathy Ainsworth to Vicki Weaver0
Picturing Black History0
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism0
The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy0
Democracy and the Teaching of History in Our Perilous Moment0
Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States0
Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys0
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory0
The Global History of Black Girlhood0
Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History0
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe0
Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance0
Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement0
Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary0
Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the U.S. Pacific0
Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire0
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are0
Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State0
Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston0
Beacons of Liberty: International Free Soil and the Fight for Racial Justice in Antebellum America0
Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization0
Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South0
Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade0
Corps Competency? III Marine Amphibious Force Headquarters in Vietnam0
Counterfeiting Labor's Voice: William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics0
The Place of Law: Anti-Asian Violence and Community Advocacy in the Early Twentieth Century0
Boundaries of Belonging: English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655–17150
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer (a cautionary tale)0
Slavery, Religion, and Race in Antebellum Missouri: Freedom from Slavery and Freedom from Sin0
Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma0
Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World0
Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country0
The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670–18250
A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War0
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States0
Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore beyond John Waters and The Wire0
Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–19350
Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–18770
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–19200
Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right0
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History0
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
Announcements0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States0
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States0
Chicanx Utopias: Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible0
Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles0
Heterosexual Histories0
Spiritualism's Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale0
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America0
Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture0
“Pool: A Social History of Segregation”0
The Database of Religious History0
Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines0
Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America0
Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–19600
The North American West in the Twenty-First Century0
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice0
Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism0
When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s0
Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture0
Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America0
Plenary Powers: Chinese Immigration, Sovereignty Challenges, and the Making of Federal Immigration Power in the U.S. West0
A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac0
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World0
Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas0
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century0
Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism0
Arnold0
Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change0
Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South during America's Revolutionary Era0
Cultures Colliding: American Missionaries, Chinese Resistance, and the Rise of Modern Institutions in China0
Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America0
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White0
Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America0
A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America0
A Doctor for Rural America: The Reforms of Frances Sage Bradley0
An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North0
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–19490
Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands0
Louisiana Slave Conspiracies0
Eastward of Good Hope: Early America in a Dangerous World0
A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado0
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated Effort.”0
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire0
For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790–18610
Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–17830
Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing0
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations0
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding0
Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands0
Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–18700
Artificial Intelligence in Early America: Rethinking Assessment in the History Classroom0
Wielding an Unlikely Weapon: Black Americans, White Violence, and Damage Suits during the Early Days of Jim Crow0
National Monument Audit0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama0
Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest0
Baptiste and Marianne's Balbásha': Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans, 1733–17480
Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and Daca0
Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War0
The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War0
Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk0
The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought0
Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas0
My Heart Is Bound Up with Them: How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation0
The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money0
All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 18490
Voodoo: An African American Religion0
Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State0
Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations0
From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California0
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–18730
The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 19000
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West0
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora0
Pam & Tommy0
Disruption0
Escaping Matrimony: A Documentary History of Eloping Spouses in Colonial America0
Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State0
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War0
North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution0
The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba0
Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History0
Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City0
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution0
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela0
Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee0
Plowshares into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations0
Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution0
Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century0
The American Buffalo0
Introduction0
Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II0
This Pilgrim Nation: The Making of the Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America0
Between Utopia and Jim Crow: The Highlander Folk School, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Racial Borders of the Summer Camp, 1956–19610
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands0
Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century0
We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California0
Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy0
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras0
Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History0
Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi0
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall0
Earning Their Wings: The Wasps of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition0
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