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Rachel Hope Cleves (born 1975) is an American-Canadian historian, best known for her 2014 book Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. The book, a study of historical documents concerning the same-sex relationship of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake in the 19th century, was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for LGBT Studies at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards.

Born in New York City in 1975, Cleves studied at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a professor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia since 2009. She is a specialist in early American history, with research areas including gender and sexuality, the American relationship with the French Revolution, and the War of 1812.

She has also published the books, The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (2009), as well as articles in journals such as Early American Studies, Reviews in American History and the Journal of American History.

In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Works

Books

• Rachel Hope Cleves (2009). The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107403987.
• Rachel Hope Cleves (2014). Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190627317.
• Rachel Hope Cleves (2020). Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226733531.
• Rachel Hope Cleves (2024). Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex. Polity. ISBN 978-1509553631.

References

1. "The improbable, 200-year-old story of one of America's first same-sex 'marriages'". Washington Post, March 20, 2015.
2. "Seventeen Canadian authors nominated for Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, March 4, 2015.
3. "A surprising history of same-sex nuptials". Victoria Times-Colonist, April 26, 2015.
4. "Our interpretation of history is clouded by the fog of war". Victoria Times-Colonist, February 19, 2012.
5. "Royal Society of Canada elects four UVic researchers". uvic.ca. September 10, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2019.

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