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 improbable, 200-year-old story of one of America's first same-sex 'marriages'"
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'', March 20, 2015. The book, a study of historical documents concerning the same-sex relationship of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake in the 19th century, was a shortlisted

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nominee for LGBT Studies at the

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. Born in

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in 1975, Cleves studied at

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and the

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, and has been a professor at the

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since 2009. She is a specialist in early American history, with research areas including gender and sexuality, the American relationship with the

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, and the

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. She has also published the book ''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 ''Early American Studies'' is a peer-reviewed history journal covering the study of the histories and cultures of North America prior to 1850. The journal is sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsyl ...

'', ''

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'' and the ''

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''. In 2019, she was elected a

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