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 memories of a moder...
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, particularly but not ...
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, 1863-1921 coming out in...
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 to travel have the ...
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 demonstration purposes...
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. The historical value ...
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 who survived the S...
Why Study History?What do Actor/Comedian Steve Carell, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Republican Presidential Candidate, Carly Fiorina, and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kaga...
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-worlds-into-the-us-histo...