Here’s the place to find my shorter published works, listed by category in reverse chronological order.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
2023 “Mobility and Opportunity: Black Business Owners and Inventors Cross the US-Canada Borders,” Essays in Economic & Business History Volume 41, No. 2: 63-83. https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/550/457
2019 “How Webster Came to Mean Dictionary: Celebrity Signatures, the Merriam Brothers, and the Ethics of Reuse in Antebellum Advertising,” Nineteenth-Century Studies Volume 30 (2017-8 [published 2019]): 67-88.
2013 “This is Not How My Book Starts: Looking Back at Writing and Framing,” Rethinking History 17.1 (March 2013), 110-119.
2013 “Experience Rather than Imagination: Researching the Return Migration of African North Americans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction,” Roundtable in Memory of Nora Faires Journal of American Ethnic History 32.2 (Winter 2013), 73-77.
2012 “George Engelmann’s Barometer: Measuring Civil War America from St. Louis,” Journal of the West 51.3, The Civil War Era and the West Special Issue, (Summer 2012), 27-39.
2009 “The Double Life of St. Louis: Narratives of Origins and Maturity in Wade’s Urban Frontier.” Indiana Magazine of History 105.3, Richard Wade Special Issue (September 2009), 246-261.
2008 “Freeing Dred Scott: St. Louis Confronts an Icon of Slavery, 1857-2007.”
Common-place 8.3 (April 2008). http://commonplace.online/article/freeing-dred-scott/
2008 “A Cultural Barometer: The St. Louis Mercantile Library as National Institution, 1846- 1871.” Missouri Historical Review 102.2 (January 2008), 88-102.
2007 “Anglo-Saxonism in the Yukon: The Klondike Nugget and American-British Relations in the ‘Two Wests,’ 1898-1901.” Pacific Historical Review 76.3 (August 2007), 373-403.
2005 “Ansel Adams’s Eucalyptus Tree, Fort Ross: Nature, Photography, and the Search for California,” California History 82.4 (2005), 10-25.
1998 “The Role of the Nossa Senhora Aparecida Festival in Creating Brazilian American Community,” New York Folklore Journal 24.1-4 (1998), 1-30.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters:
2022 “State Guides Then and Now: From Controversial New Deal Project to National Treasure,” in Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers’ Project, Sara Rutkowski, ed., (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), 95-106.
2022 “A Forgotten Generation: African Canadian History between Fugitive Slaves and World War I” in Unsettling the Great White North: African Canadian History, Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi, eds., (University of Toronto Press, 2022), 115-139.
2019 “Banking with Family in Postwar California: Howard Ahmanson, the Millard Sheets Studio, and the Home Savings and Loan Commissions, 1953-1991,” in Melissa Renn and Monica E. Jovanovich, eds., Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), 190-205.
2015 Introduction, Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States Adam Arenson and Andrew Graybill, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015), 1-12.
2015 “John Gast’s American Progress: Using Manifest Destiny to Forget the Civil War and Reconstruction,” Empire and Liberty: The American West and the Civil War ed. Virginia Scharff (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015), 122-139.
2014 (with Kelly J. Sisson Lessens) “Feeding the North,” Introduction to Food in the Civil War Era: The North, ed. Helen Zoe Veit, American Food in History series (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014), 1-22.
2010 “Dred Scott versus the Dred Scott Case: The History and Memory of a Signal Moment in American Slavery, 1857-2007,” in The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law Paul Finkelman, David Konig, and Christopher Bracey, eds., Ohio University Press, 25-46.
2007 “Libraries in Public before the Age of Public Libraries: Interpreting the Furnishings and Design of Athenaeums and Other ‘Social Libraries,’ 1800-1860,” in The Library as Place: History, Community and Culture John Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie, eds., (Westport, Ct.: Libraries Unlimited-Greenwood Press, 2007), 41-60.
Other Writing in Academic Venues:
2024 “Millard Sheets.” Entry in American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999-present). https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.013.90000370118 “Home Savings in Pasadena: A Turning Point for the Millard Sheets Studio’s Art and Architecture, and its Preservation,” California History Leading Edge column Vol. 93, No. 2 (Summer 2016), pp. 57-60.
“U.S. History’s Regional Associations—Shaped By Geography or Driving Questions? And Does It Matter?” U.S. Intellectual History Blog (November 12, 2015), https://s-usih.org/2015/11/u-s-historys-regional-associations-shaped-by- geography-or-driving-questions-and-does-it-matter-guest-post/
2014 “Death in the Nineteenth Century: Tradition, Technology, and the Conflicts of the Modern,” in Beyond the Dark Veil: Post-Mortem and Mourning Photography from the Thanatos Archive Jacqueline Bunge Barger, ed. (Fullerton, Calif.: Grand Central Press and Last Gasp, 2014), 124-127.
2012 (with the L.A. Conservancy volunteers and staff) “Millard Sheets: A Legacy of Art and Architecture” booklet in conjunction with Pomona Valley sites tour. (March 2012.)
2012 “Paying Dividends: How Home Savings & Loan Perfected the Art of Banking in Southern California,” Huntington Frontiers (Fall/Winter 2011-2012), 18-24. http://huntingtonfrontiers.org/features/paying-dividends/
2011 “More Than Just a Prize: The Civil War and the American West,” Western History Association Newsletter (Fall 2011), 5-7.
Book Reviews:
2021 Review of West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite. Western Historical Quarterly (October 2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whab116
2018 Review of The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America by Matthew Stanley. Journal of American History (March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1093/jahis.jax473
2017 Review of A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland by Sydney Nathans. Journal of Social History (July 19, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shx079
2017 Review of Abolitionizing Missouri: German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America by Kristen Layne Anderson. Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 40.3 (Autumn 2017), 221.
2012 Review of On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 by Diane Mutti Burke. Journal of the Civil War Era 2.4 (December 2012), 607-610. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/489336
2011 Review of Missouri’s War: The Civil War in Documents, ed. Silvana R. Siddali. Missouri Historical Review 105.2 (January 2011), 117-118.
2008 Review of Empire’s Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska 1898-1934 by Preston Jones. Pacific Historical Review 77.2 (May 2008), 330-332. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/phr.2008.77.2.330
