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Breaking Lincoln's Promise: Revolutionary Memories of the War Dead

The paper I presented at the Society of Military History Annual Conference 2021

Appearance on The Curious Man Podcast

I had a fantastic conversation with Matt Crawford at The Curious Man podcast. Matt is the Curious Man and he interviews authors from many...

Sites of Mourning, Sites of Empire talk open to the public

What can we learn from fallen soldiers beyond the commemorative rituals and traditions that Americans practice? How do the locations were...

To Save Democracy, We Need Historical Memory to be "Hot"

Here is the latest op ed for the History News Network. It talks about hot memory and the need for Americans to keep the past in the...

Appearance on the Packaged Tourist hosted by Matthew DiBiase

Matthew DiBiase is an Archivist Specialist at the National Archives in Philadelphia and he is also the host of his podcast The Packaged...

YouTube Author Interview

Peg at the History Shelf and I sat around and talked about my book Death at the Edges of Empire. She asked some fantastic questions and I...

Teaching History and STEM of Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyages

Slave Voyages Database Analysis Social History developed as a historiographical force in the 1960s and 1970s. It involves looking at...

AHA Article: Professional Skills, Historical Thinking Supplement

Greetings! I have had a few requests for additional information regarding my Microsoft Teams classroom column at the AHA Perspectives...

Book Review: A Historian's view of Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Interested 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 Sens

The 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 2020

I 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 3

Graphic novels have reinvented the way that we approach the past. Here is a review of Lewis's graphic memoirs about his experiences in...

Breaking Lincoln's Promise

Here is the Op-ed I wrote for the History News Network on how President Trump's comments about soldiers at Aisne-Marne cemetery being...

Death at the Edges of Empire Reviewed in Wall Street Journal

My book was reviewed by Randall Fuller in the Wall Street Journal over the Memorial Day Weekend. Professor Fuller, who is the Herman...

Death at the Edges of Empire made it to the Best New American Civil War Books

I'm happy to announce that my book, "Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American...

An Inverted Odyssey: Homer's Greeks in the First World War, A Film Review of 1917

Sam 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 Nation

Americans, since the time of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, have developed a collective memory of empire that could be hidden, ...

Book Trailer

This is the trailer for my book Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation,...

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 Tour

Panel 8 of the Mnemosyne Atlas, "The Labor of Empire: Discovering and Producing Imperial Knowledge," is a prototype of the project for...

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