PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Conversations with the Dead Edward Muir
ARTICLES
Migrating Concepts: The Transatlantic Origins of the Bracero Program, 1919–42 Julie M Weise, Christoph Rass
The “Evil Spectators?”: Opium and Empire’s Stakeholders in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia Diana Kim
AHR HISTORY LAB
Inside the History Lab Mark Philip Bradley
Art as Historical Method
Contemporary Indigenous Art and History Brenda J Child
Reindeer and the Venice Biennale Brenda J Child
The Abiqueños and the Artist: Rethinking O’Keeffe Patricia Marroquin Norby
Artist Interview with Virgil Ortiz Matthew J Martinez
AHR History Lab
Digitized Newspapers and the Hidden Transformation of History Heidi J S Tworek
Word Embedding Models and the Hybridity of Newspaper Genres Avery Blankenship, Ryan Cordell
The Historian as Transnational Agent: On the Digitization of Sinophone Newspapers Yushu Geng, Rachel Leow
Out of the Shadowlands: The Digitization of Early Indian Newspapers Callie Wilkinson
More Than Keywords: Histories of Decolonization and Digitized Newspapers Zoe LeBlanc
Archiving History in Real Time: Newspaper Collections at the Internet Archive Brewster Kahle, Lila Bailey
#AHR Syllabus
Teaching Historiography: Testimony and the Study of the Holocaust Agnieszka Aya Marczyk, Abby Reisman, Brenda Santos
History Unclassified
Chilling Affects: The Far Right Takes Aim at Black History Woody Holton
FEATURED REVIEWS
Benjamin Quarles: He Showed the Way Richard Blackett
An Early Practitioner of the “New” Social History Hettie V Williams
Biographies of a Central European City Celia Donert
William Sewell on Capitalism and Civic Equality Clare Haru Crowston
The Problem with (Bio)diversity David Sepkoski
Transnational Anti-Imperialism and the Left in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Oleksa Drachewych
Authors in Conversation
Challenging American Hegemony Melvyn P Leffler
A New Look at the Iraq War Samuel Helfont
REVIEWS
ASIA
Upal Chakrabarti. Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India. Arun Kumar
David Cheng Chang. The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War. Catherine Churchman
Harriet Evans. Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center. Jie Li
David Fedman. Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. Nathan Hopson
Ian M. Miller. Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. E Elena Songster
Timothy M. Yang. A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. Susan L Burns
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
Jenifer L. Barclay. The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America. Evan Elizabeth Hart
Dillon J. Carroll. Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers. Evan Kutzler
Mark Milton Chambers. Gray Gold: Lead Mining and its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840. Christopher Herbert
Robert T. Chase. We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America. Justin Randolph
Billy Coleman. Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788–1865. Laura Lohman
Aaron Donaghy. The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy. Michelle D Paranzino
Laura F. Edwards. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Amy S Greenberg
Hannah Farber. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding. Jacob Soll
Lorien Foote. Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War. Michael E Woods
Lance Greene. Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina. Carolyn Ross Johnston
Kirsten Silva Gruesz. Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas. Adrian Finucane
Jonathan Todd Hancock. Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America. Shelby M Balik
Ricardo A. Herrera. Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778. Friederike Baer
James L. Hill. Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818. Robbie Ethridge
Karlos K. Hill and David Dodson. The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History. Elliott J Gorn
Moon-Ho Jung. Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism. Rose Stremlau
Henry Richard Maar II. Freeze!: The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War. Christian Philip Peterson
Benjamin Márquez. The Politics of Patronage: Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. David A Badillo
Jerome McGann. Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement. Ian Saxine
Dane A. Morrison. Eastward of Good Hope: Early America in a Dangerous World. Lawrence A Peskin
Robert F. Moss. The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South. Tanfer Emin Tunc
Marianne O. Nielsen and Barbara M. Heather. Finding Right Relations: Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism. Jean R Soderlund
Dael A. Norwood. Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America. Jonathan Eacott
William J. Novak. New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. Oliver Ayers
Kathryn Olivarius. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. Mikaëla M Adams
Michael A. Olivas. Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA. Jessica Lavariega Monforti
Kathryn S. Olmsted. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler. Katy Hull
Brendan J. J. Payne. Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South. Joseph L Locke
Juliana Hu Pegues. Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. S Scott Rohrer
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy. Keith Pluymers
Martin Rizzo-Martinez. We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California. William J Bauer, Jr
Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza, eds. Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation. Hilary Green
Thomas C. Rust. Watching over Yellowstone: The US Army’s Experience in America’s First National Park, 1886–1918. Robert Wooster
John M. Sacher. Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers. Chandra Manning
Jeannie N. Shinozuka. Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950. Julie Sze
Megan Smetzer. Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience. Miranda Belarde-Lewis
Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City. Lance Freeman
Jesse Tarbert. When Good Government Meant Big Government: The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933. Steven Conn
Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner. Immigration: An American History. Grace Peña Delgado
Felicity M. Turner. Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America. Kimberly Hamlin
Nadine Weidman. Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America. Geoffrey C Bunn
Laurie A. Wilkie. Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875. Kevin Adams
Serena Zabin. The Boston Massacre: A Family History. Robert J Allison
Jeremy Zallen. American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865. Brian James Leech
CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA
Shawn Michael Austin. Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay. M Kittiya Lee
Margaret M. Power. Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism. Marc Becker
Eric Van Young. A Life Together: Lucas Alamán and Mexico, 1792–1853. Corinna Zeltsman
Natasha Varner. La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Lisa Pinley Covert
Ezer Vierba. The Singer’s Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá. Robert F Alegre
COMPARATIVE/WORLD/TRANSNATIONAL
Peter Andreas. Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs. Rudi Matthee
Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernández. Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940. Alejandro Gómez del Moral
Hugh R. Slotten. Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications. Kendrick Oliver
Nicholas Mulder. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War. Quinn Slobodian
EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN
Micah Alpaugh. Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. Marc H Lerner
Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990. Eli Rubin
Annette Becker. Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides. Rebekah Klein-Pejšová
Jay Bergman. The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture. Adam Coker
John Christopoulos. Abortion in Early Modern Italy. Bradford A Bouley
Rebecca Clifford. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust. Caroline Mezger
Marko Dumančić. Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties. Lilya Kaganovsky
Lawrence Goldman. Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain. Kathrin Levitan
Anthony Grafton. Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe. James Raven
Samuel Clowes Huneke. States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. Michael O’Sullivan
Jan Rybak. Everyday Zionism in East Central Europe: Nation-Building in War and Revolution, 1914–1920. Annemarie Sammartino
Kira Thurman. Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Raffael Scheck
EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL
D. L. d’Avray. Papal Jurisprudence, 385–1234: Social Origins and Medieval Reception of Canon Law. Julia Barrow
Justine Firnhaber-Baker. The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants’ Revolt. Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici
Caroline Goodson. Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy. Benjamin Graham
Stephen Gordon. Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, C. 1050–1540. Kenneth Rooney
Janine Larmon Peterson. Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics: Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy. Donald S Prudlo
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and Gabriella Pironti. The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse. Robert Parker
METHODS/THEORY
William Boelhower. Atlantic Studies: Prospects and Challenges. Noel E Smyth
Gesa Mackenthun and Christsen Mucher, eds. Decolonizing “Prehistory”: Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America. Stephen W Silliman
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Joelle M. Abi-Rached. ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East. Beverly Tsacoyianis
Hussam R. Ahmed. The Last Nahdawi: Taha Hussein and Institution Building in Egypt. Nancy Y Reynolds
Kathryn Babayan. The City As Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan. Deniz Çalış Kural
Matthew H. Ellis. Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya. Berny Sèbe
Bernard Hamilton and Andrew Jotischky. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States. Andrew D Buck
Amy Aisen Kallander. Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s. Claire Oueslati-Porter, PhD
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Mauro Nobili. Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa. Jeremy Dell
Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970. Hannah Whittaker
Hugo ka Canham. Riotous Deathscapes. Casey Golomski