ARTICLES
Looking for the Soul of Environmental Lament: Civil Religion, Political Emotion and the Handling of the Earth in the New Deal Era border Michael G Thompson, Clare Monagle
“We Found Her at the River”: German Humanitarian Fantasies and Child Sponsorship in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries Melanie Schulze Tanielian
Carceral Recycling: Zero Waste and Imperial Extraction in Nazi Germany Anne Berg
AHR HISTORY LAB
Inside the History Lab Mark Philip Bradley
Forum on Historical Fiction
Forum on Historical Fiction: Twenty-One Reviews
Insurrecto, Beauty is a Wound, and The Refugees Amado Anthony G Mendoza, III
Aztec Empire, Against the Inquisition, and Lejos de Luisiana David Tavárez
Libertie Christina Cecelia Davidson
Velvet was the Night, Marighella, and Argentina, 1985 Adela Cedillo
The Water Knife Andrew Needham
The Night Watchman Laurie Arnold
Off the Rails, Manahatta, and The Pueblo Revolt Laurie Arnold
The Heartsong of the Charging Elk Katrina M Phillips
The Seed Keeper Sasha Maria Suarez
Mortal Designs, Warda, and My First and Only Love Angela Giordani
Matrix Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Lavinia, The Green Knight, and Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk Lucy K Pick
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage Marci Shore
The Flight Portfolio Rebecca Erbelding
Strumpet City, The Bitter Sea, and Fallen Caitriona Clear
The Fraud Charles V Reed
We, the Survivors Sandeep Ray
Puppet Flower Paul D Barclay
The Immortal King Rao Ramnarayan S Rawat
Kintu, Days Come and Go, and The Deep Blue Between Sarah Balakrishnan
Kibogo and The Daughters of Nandi Elisabeth McMahon
A New Welfare History
A New History of the American Welfare State Salem Elzway, Salonee Bhman, Bobby Cervantes
The Price of Progress: Automation and the Political Limits of the American Welfare State Salem Elzway
Locating Welfare History at the Margins Salonee Bhaman
From Absence to Abundance: : How Las Colonias Made Their Place Bobby Cervantes
Comment by Linda Gordon Linda Gordon
Comment by Alice O’Connor Alice O’Connor
Comment by Karen M. Tani Karen M Tani
AHR History Lab
Ghost Records in the Archival Empire: Africana Cultural Heritage Stewardship at Historically White Institutions Gabrielle Dean
#AHR Syllabus
Good Question: Right-Sizing Inquiry with History Teachers Whitney E Barringer, Scot McFarlane, Nicholas Kryczka
A Case for Objects: Material Culture in the History Classroom Sarah Jones Weicksel
History Unclassified
“Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death” Anthony David
Promises, Then the Storm: Notes on the Gaza Wars Melani McAlister
Writing My Brother’s Story: On the Borders of Family, Race, and History border= Nico Slate
FEATURED REVIEWS
Earlie Thorpe: Antiracist Scholar Who Centered Black Voices in US History Jerry Gershenhorn
Photography from Below Jonathan Connolly
Indigenous People and Reproductive Justice in the US Heather A Howard-Bobiwash
REVIEWS
ASIA
Daniel Barish. Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861–1912. Jennifer W Jay
John P. Delury. Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China. Matthew Galway
Yue Du. State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform. Xiaoping Cong
Matthew Galway. The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949–1979. Anna Belogurova
Julian Gewirtz. Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s. Martin T Fromm
J. Megan Greene. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II. Rana Mitter
Katya Hokanson. A Woman’s Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia. Choi Chatterjee
Shruti Kapila. Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age. Vinay Lal
Jennifer Keating. On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia. Ian W Campbell
Chien-Wen Kung. Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s. Takamichi Serizawa
Elisabeth Leake. Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan. Sana Haroon
Elizabeth Lhost. Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia. Ilyse R Morgenstein Fuerst
Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk. A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942. Michitake Aso
Sherzod Muminov. Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan. Yoshikuni Igarashi
Shailaja Paik. The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India. Juned Shaikh
Jessica Patterson. Religion Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century. Chandra Mallampalli
Juned Shaikh. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor. Priyanka Srivastava
Seiji Shirane. Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945. Andrew Gordon
Thomas Simpson. The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century. Sanghamitra Misra
Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot. India before Europe (Second Edition). Kyunghee Pyun
Sarah Fatima Waheed. Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India. Devika Sethi
Yuhua Wang. The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development. Taisu Zhang
Xin Wen. The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road. Roxann Prazniak
Lawrence Zhang. Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China. Yuanchong Wang
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
Mike Amezcua. Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification. ToniAnn D Treviño
Samantha Barbas. Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan. Aimee Edmondson
John Frederick Bell. Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
R. J. M. Blackett. Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle. Graham Russell Gao Hodges
dann j. Broyld. Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region during the Final Decades of Slavery. Sharon A Roger Hepburn
Mat Callahan. Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. Court Carney
Patrick J. Charles. Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States. Andrew C McKevitt
Jasmine Nichole Cobb. New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair. Ingrid Banks
Martha J. Cutter. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown. Roy E Finkenbine
Joan DeJean. Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast. Jennifer L Palmer
Philip Dray. A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age. Michael J Pfeifer
Angela Esco Elder. Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss. Sarah E Gardner
Misha Ewen. The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580–1660. David A Lupher
Jennifer Greenburg. At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War. Kellie Wilson-Buford
Greg Hall. Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox. Tom Goyens
Bernadine Marie Hernández. Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands. Kris Klein Hernández
Brian Hochman. The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. Christian Parenti
Allison M. Johnson, editor. The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans. Sarah Handley-Cousins
Dale Kretz. Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen’s Bureau. Manisha Sinha
Matthew Kruer. Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America. Matthew Bahar
Franca Iacovetta. Before Official Multiculturalism: Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s–1970s. Eileen Boris
Karen Levy. Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance. Jocelyn Wills
Mahshid Mayar. Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire. Solsiree del Moral
Kathryn J. McGarr. City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington. Steven Casey
Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon. Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana. Michael Shane Powers
Robert Michael Morrissey. People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America. John William Nelson
Mairin Odle. Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America. Céline Carayon
Chad E. Pearson. Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Michael Mark Cohen
Alaina E. Roberts. I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. Nakia D Parker
Adam M. Romero. Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture. Frederick Rowe Davis
William Michael Schmidli. Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War. Silke Zoller
Ana Schwartz. Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America. Matt Cohen
David Silkenat. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. Kathryn Olivarius
Brenda E. Stevenson. What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family. Karen Cook Bell
Erin L. Thompson. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments. Allison S Finkelstein
Rachel E. Walker. Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America. Arnaud Orain
Kerry Walters. Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History. Janell Hobson
Marilyn J. Westerkamp. The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost. Ava Chamberlain
Chrissy Yee Lau. New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America. Sarah M Griffith
Olivier Zunz. The Man who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. Richard Boyd
CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA
Paulina L. Alberto. Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina. Alex Borucki
Molly C. Ball. Navigating Life and Work in Old Republic São Paulo. Cristina Mehrtens
Ingrid Bleynat. Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City. Keegan Boyar
Adriana Chira. Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations. Rajeshwari Dutt
Margarita Fajardo. The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Stefano Tijerina
Will Fowler. The Grammar of Civil War: A Mexican Case Study, 1857–61. Flor de María Salazar Mendoza
Kevin Terraciano. Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico. Leslie Offutt
Germán Vergara. Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950. Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato
Charlton W. Yingling. Siblings of Soil: Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions. Philippe Girard
COMPARATIVE/WORLD/TRANSNATIONAL
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey. Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America. Emmanuella Amoh
Antonio Carbone. Epidemic Cities. Merle Eisenberg
Esme Cleall. Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914. Michael Rembis
Michael Lawrence Dickinson. Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680–1807. Walter C Rucker
Carolyn J. Eichner. Feminism’s Empire. Elizabeth Dillenburg
Elizabeth Elbourne. Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770–1842. Lisa Ford
John Starosta Galante. On the Other Shore: The Atlantic Worlds of Italians in South America during the Great War. Mark I Choate
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, ed. Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race. Margo Hendricks
Stephen G. Gross and Andrew Needham, ed. New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America. Elizabeth Chatterjee
Jessica Stites Mor. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left. Eilin R Pérez
Eva-Maria Muschik. Building States: The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965. Marco Duranti
Chris Suh. The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion. David C Atkinson
Penny M. Von Eschen. Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989. Fritz Bartel
EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL
Myra Miranda Bom. Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-century Europe. Heather Tanner
Constance Brittain Bouchard. Negotiation and Resistance: Peasant Agency in High Medieval France. Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Adam Franklin-Lyons. Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon. Antonio Zaldívar
Gregg E. Gardner. Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity. Christine Hayes
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley. Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III. Sabine Müller
Björn Weiler. Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200. Paul Kershaw
EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN
Ruth Balint. Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe. Rebecca Clifford
John W. Boyer. Austria 1867–1955. Evan Burr Bukey
Megan Brown. The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France and the European Community. Jennifer Johnson
Michael Brown. Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912. Dolores Martín-Moruno
Andy Bruno. Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy. Jennifer Keating
Teri Chettiar. The Intimate State: How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain. Michal Shapira
James B. Collins. The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356–1560. Orest Ranum
Mackenzie Cooley. The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance. Sabina Brevaglieri
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900. Amy Milne-Smith
Evgeny Dobrenko and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol. State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture. Dennis Ioffe
Sebastian Felton. Money in the Dutch Republic: Everyday Practice and Circuits of Exchange. Markus A Denzel
James D. Fisher. The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800. Melissa Reynolds
Sheila Fitzpatrick. The Shortest History of the Soviet Union. Mark D Steinberg
Christian Giudice. Occult Imperium: Arturo Reghini, Roman Traditionalism, and the Anti-Modern Reaction in Fascist Italy. Eric Kurlander
Susan Grant. Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism. Greta Bucher
Karen B. Graubart. Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World. Ivonne del Valle