| The rights of the defenseless: Protecting animals and children in gilded age America SJ Pearson University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 160 | 2019 |
| Does “the animal” exist? Toward a theory of social life with animals SJ Pearson, MJ Weismantel Beastly natures: Animals, humans, and the study of history, 17-37, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
| “Age Ought to Be a Fact”: The Campaign against Child Labor and the Rise of the Birth Certificate SJ Pearson The Journal of American History 101 (4), 1144-1165, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| " Infantile Specimens": Showing Babies in Nineteenth-Century America SJ Pearson journal of social history, 341-370, 2008 | 29 | 2008 |
| Speaking bodies, speaking minds: Animals, language, history S Pearson History and Theory 52 (4), 91-108, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| Gibt es das Tier?: Sozialtheoretische Reflexionen S Pearson, M Weismantel Tierische Geschichte, 379-399, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| A new birth of regulation: the state of the state after the Civil War SJ Pearson Journal of the Civil War Era 5 (3), 422-439, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| “The rights of the defenseless”: Animals, children, and sentimental liberalism in nineteenth-century America SJ Pearson The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004 | 16 | 2004 |
| The Birth Certificate: An American History SJ Pearson | 8 | 2021 |
| "Developing the Animal Welfare State" SPK Smith Statebuilding From the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal, 118-139, 2014 | 5* | 2014 |
| The cow and the plow: Animal suffering, human guilt, and the crime of cruelty SJ Pearson Toward a Critique of Guilt: Perspectives from Law and the Humanities, 77-101, 2005 | 3 | 2005 |
| “Facts Which Might Be Embarrassing”: Illegitimacy, Vital Registration, and State Knowledge SJ Pearson Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Birth Registration and the Administration of White Supremacy SJ Pearson Modern American History 5 (2), 117-141, 2022 | | 2022 |
| “The Secret to Success" Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 11 (Fall 2014), 97-100, 0 | | |
| “The Inalienable Rights of the Beasts”: Organized Animal Protection and the Language of Rights in America SJ Pearson | | |
