Here’s the place to find my shorter published works, listed by category in reverse chronological order by category.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
2025 “Black Residents of Windsor, Ontario During the U.S. Civil War: Family Histories Answer Questions Left Open by the 1860, 1861, 1864, 1870, and 1871 Censuses,” The History of the Family (March 2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2024.2448991
1864 Windsor census matches in 1860-1871 census – visualization by Ze Wang
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.
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/
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.
2024 “Millard Sheets.” Entry in American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999-present). https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.013.90000370118
2016 “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.
2015 “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:
2011 Review of Missouri’s War: The Civil War in Documents, ed. Silvana R. Siddali. Missouri Historical Review 105.2 (January 2011), 117-118.
