Recent Publications

“In the White Interest”: Many founders expressed their hope that slavery would be abolished, while simultaneously exerting themselves to defend it. History News Network (Univ. of Richmond), Sept. 18, 2024.

“WHAT FREEDOM MEANT TO PRINCE WHIPPLE, THE BLACK REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER FAMOUS FOR ROWING ACROSS THE DELAWARE” Common Place: The Journal of Early American Life, Aug. 2024.

“JEFFERSON’S SECRET PLAN TO WHITEN VIRGINIA” Common Place: The Journal of Early American Life Spring 2023

“The Carried-Off and the Constitution: How British Harboring of Fugitives from American Slavery Led to the Constitution of 1787,” Law and History Review (February 2024).

“The Whiteness of the Midwest,” Reviews in American History 51:1, March 2023.

“”The “Carried Off” Cover-Up: How Historians Hid the Founders’ Drive to Recapture British Fugitives from American Slavery,” Ethnic Studies Review 45:2 (Fall 2022). 

“Andrew Johnson: White Labor’s President,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 78:4 (Winter 2019), pp. 210-239.

“Lingg’s Autobiography: An Overlooked Haymarket Confession?” Counterpunch, May 4, 2020.

Review of Betsy Wood, Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism. Journal of American History, Sept. 2022.

Review of Micheal Cohen, The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 19:1 (Jan. 2020), pp. 166-167.