AHA Article: Professional Skills, Historical Thinking SupplementGreetings! I have had a few requests for additional information regarding my Microsoft Teams classroom column at the AHA Perspectives Dai...
Book Review: A Historian's view of Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihInterested in reading African/Arab literature? Thinking about books for your students to read in a World History or World Lit class? Want...
Sensual Empires: Britain and America in India and the Philippines, Book Review of Empire of the SensThe five senses helps us navigate nature but, according to historian Andrew J. Rotter, they can also help us construct an empire. Rotter ...
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow 2020I am honored to be receive this support from the ACLS, which will help me work on my second book tentatively titled The Affinity of War: ...
Book Review of John Lewis's March, Volume 3Graphic novels have reinvented the way that we approach the past. Here is a review of Lewis's graphic memoirs about his experiences in th...
Breaking Lincoln's PromiseHere is the Op-ed I wrote for the History News Network on how President Trump's comments about soldiers at Aisne-Marne cemetery being "su...
Death at the Edges of Empire Reviewed in Wall Street JournalMy book was reviewed by Randall Fuller in the Wall Street Journal over the Memorial Day Weekend. Professor Fuller, who is the Herman Melv...
Death at the Edges of Empire made it to the Best New American Civil War BooksI'm happy to announce that my book, "Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Natio...
An Inverted Odyssey: Homer's Greeks in the First World War, A Film Review of 1917Sam Mendes’s film, 1917, situates the first world war in the canon of western civilization. Less about history, 1917 seeks to capture the...
Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American NationAmericans, since the time of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, have developed a collective memory of empire that could be hidden, p...
Book TrailerThis is the trailer for my book Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 186...
The Affinity of War: Traveling Memory, the War Dead, and the American Empire in France.Memories travel. When people tour or go on pilgrimages they share their memories with those they come into contact. People who can afford...
Mnemosyne Atlas Digital Guided TourPanel 8 of the Mnemosyne Atlas, "The Labor of Empire: Discovering and Producing Imperial Knowledge," is a prototype of the project for de...
History But Not MemoryMonuments are historical and memorial but not in the way that most people think. Monuments are historical but do not represent history. T...
Film Review of The Photographer of MauthausenA historian's review of the Netflix film The Photographer of Mauthausen. This film tells the story of Francisco Boix, a Spanish/Catalan...
Why Study History?What do Actor/Comedian Steve Carell, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Republican Presidential Candidate, Carly Fiorina, and Supreme Cour...
Pizza, PechaKucha, and Pedagogyhttps://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/february-2015/pizza-pechakucha-and-pedagogy
Incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds into the US History Surveyhttps://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2015/incorporating-the-atlantic-and-pacific-worl...
