Writings
“Assessing Alcohol and Civil War Soldiers,” Reviews in American History, Volume 53, Number 4, December 2025, pp. 340-344.
Co-authored with Paul R. Steege, “Doug Mastriano's Mad Libs,” History News Network, December 8, 2022.
“Rename Taney Street after Caroline Le Count,” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 6, 2021.
Co-authored with Adam Arenson, “More people than we thought get excluded when the right to vote isn’t protected,” Made By History, Washington Post, March 26, 2021.
Co-authored with Lori Aument, “Caroline LeCount: A Fitting Replacement for Christopher Columbus”, The Philadelphia Citizen, March 1, 2021.
“’A Muster Roll of the American People:’ The 1870 Census, Voting Rights, and the Postwar South,” Journal of Southern History, February 2021, v. 137, 35-66.
“Grant — not Lincoln or Roosevelt — may hold the key to Biden’s success,” Made By History, Washington Post, February 3, 2021.
“A Revolution Against Interracial Democracy,” Public Seminar, January 21, 2021.
“Castles in the Air: A Review of Greta Gerwig's Little Women,” Muster: The Journal of the Civil War Era Blog, January 7, 2020.
“The People for Whom He Saved the Union: The Lincoln Memorial,” Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians, J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher (Eds.), University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 123-128.
“Jeff Sessions is wrong. Sanctuary-city advocates aren’t like secessionists. They’re like abolitionists,” Made By History, Washington Post, March 6, 2018.
“President Trump is playing politics with the 2020 Census. It could backfire,” Made By History,Washington Post, January 12, 2018.