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 The book, a study of historical documents concerning the same-sex relationship of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake in the 19th century, was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for LGBT Studies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.
Books in order of publication:
The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery. Cambridge University Press – 2009
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America – 2014
Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality – University of Chicago Press – 2020
Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex. Polity – 2024
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