Dr. Rachel Cleves

Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (University of Chicago Press, 2020)

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Edited works

Guest-Editor (along with Averill Earls and Nicholas Syrett): “Intergenerational Sex” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques Special Issue (Spring 2020)

guest editor for “Beyond the Binaries: Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender” Early American Studies Special Issue (Fall 2014)

Articles

Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: Queer Food and Gendered Nationalism in the Late Twentieth-Century USA,” Gender & History (August 2022): 1-18

“A ‘Queer Collection’: The Anglo Colony in Florence, 1840s – 1950s,” Queer Lives Across Britain, ed. Alison Oram, Matt Cook, Justin Bengry (Bloomsbury Press, 2022)

“Vocabula Amatoria: A Glossary of French Culinary Sex Terms,” American Historical Review (October 2020)

 “The Erotic Poetry of Begué’s Breakfast Register,” Victorian Review (Summer 2020): 187-191

“The Problem of Modern Pederasty in Queer History: A Case Study of Norman Douglas,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, (Spring 2020): 47-61

““Companions in labor: Love, Work, and Same-Sex Marriage in the Early United States” in Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Intimate Relations in Historical Context, eds. Katie Barclay, Andrea Thomson and Jeff Meeks (Routledge, 2019) 81-95

““Those Were Dirty Words”: Women, Pleasure, and the History of Food Porn,” Global Humanities, Vol 6 (2019): 15-32 

“Teddy Wolfe’s Beautiful Boys,” in ed. Chris Brickell and Judith Collard, Queer Objects (Rutgers University Press, 2019): 89-93

“Six Ways of Looking at a Trans Man: The Life of Frank Shimer, 1826-1901” The Journal of the History of Sexuality (January 2018): 32-62

“Same-Sex Love Among Early American Women,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (Oxford University Press, 2018)

“Philotes in the Kitchen: Norman Douglas’s Friendships with Faith Compton Mackenzie, Elizabeth David, Theodora FitzGibbon and Sybille Bedford” in Norman Douglas: 9.Symposium Bregenz und Thüringen/Vorarlberg 2016 (Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek, 2017) 81-91

“From Pederasty to Pedophilia: Sex Involving Children and Youth in U.S. History,” History Compass (December 2017): 1-9

“A Field of Possibilities: Erotic Variation in Early America” William and Mary Quarterly (July 2013): 581-590.

“Interchange: The War of 1812 and the Creation of the American Republic” [contributor] Journal of American History (September 2012): 520-555.

“Battling the Slaveholders’ ‘Reign of Terror’: Anti-Jacobinism and Abolitionism in the Early American Republic” Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise  (March 2011)

“‘Savage Barbarities!’: Slavery, Race, and the Uncivilizing Process in the United States”  Christa Buschendorf and Astrid Franke, eds. American (De)Civilizing Processes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011) 103-122.

"'Hurtful to the State': The Political Morality of Federalist Antislavery" John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason, eds. Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation (University of Virginia Press, 2011) 207-226.

“Transatlantic Revolution, National Identity, and American Exceptionalism in the Early Republic” Reviews in American History (December 2011): 607-616.

“‘Heedless Youth’: The Revolutionary War Poetry of Ruth Bryant, 1760-1783” The William and Mary Quarterly (July 2010): 519-548.

“‘Jacobins in this Country’: The United States and the Transatlantic Language of Anti-Jacobinism” Early American Studies (May 2010):410-445.

“On Writing the History of Violence” Journal of the Early Republic (Winter 2004): 641-665.