Publications and Commissioned Reviews:
· “Anglicization Against the Empire: Revolutionary Ideas and Identity in Townshend Crisis Massachusetts,” in Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Andrew Shankman, and David J. Silverman, ed.s, Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), pp. 153-178.
· “On the AP U.S. History Framework: Approaching the Past Without a Present Agenda,” Education Week, vol. 35, no. 10, Oct. 28, 2015, pp. 20-21.
· “Left and Right May Not Be Happy with the New AP Standards. Here’s Why You Should Be,” History News Network (http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/160264), Aug. 14, 2015.
· “An Appeal for Sanity: A Real-World Look at the Purposes, Strengths, and Weaknesses of the 2014 AP U.S. History Framework,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, vol. 14, no. 3, July 2015, pp. 400-411.
· “The new AP US History test guide: Standards-lite, thematic guide, or not quite either?” Flypaper blog, Thomas B. Fordham Institute (http://edexcellence.net/articles/new-ap-us-history-test-guide-standards-lite-thematic-guide-or-not-quite-either), May 15, 2014.
· “New Indiana History Standards Mark a Shift Away from Content,” Common Core Watch, Thomas B. Fordham Institute (http://edexcellence.net/commentary/education-gadfly-daily/common-core-watch/new-indiana-standards-mark-a-shift-away-from), March 18, 2014.
· “A Tale Worthy of Poe: The Myth of George Bateson and his Belfry,” History News Network, (http://hnn.us/article/153726), October 28, 2013.
· “Era Summaries” (36 expository content guides for U.S. and World History), The Alexandria Plan, Great Minds, Washington D.C. (https://greatminds.org/history).
· with Sheldon M. Stern, “Run Down by Traffic in Both Directions: Is it Possible to Have a Rational Discussion of State U.S. History Standards?” History News Network (http://www.hnn.us/articles/136874.html), Feb. 27, 2011.
· with Sheldon M. Stern, The State of State U.S. History Standards, 2011 (Washington: Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2011); available at https://edexcellence.net/publications/the-state-of-state-us.html.
· “‘The Story of Us’? Hardly,” History News Network (http://www.hnn.us/articles/126929.html), May 24, 2010.
· “The ‘Tea Party’ Movement and its Misuse of History,” History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/118029.html), Oct. 12, 2009.
· “What’s Wrong with HBO’s Dramatization of John Adams’s Story,” History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/56155.html), Oct. 27, 2008.
· “What's Inaccurate About the New HBO Series on John Adams,” History News Network (http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/48493.html), March 18, 2008.
· “Jane Franklin Mecom: A Boston Woman in Revolutionary Times,” Early American Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 147-191.
· “Federalists,” in Paul Finkelmen, ed., Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005).
· with Sheldon M. Stern, “Slavery in Context,” opinion column, Boston Globe, August 2, 1999.
· “The Lexington Militia,” Appendix O in David H. Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 319-320.
Other (may not be publicly available):
· Reviews of College Board AP World History and International Baccalaureate World History frameworks and discussion of the AP U.S. history framework controversy, commissioned by International Baccalaureate.
· Reviews and sample revisions for AP U.S. History Framework, commissioned by the College Board, 2015.
· Officially-commissioned reviews of state history standards revisions for Minnesota (2011), Nebraska (2012), Indiana (2014), and Kentucky (2015).
· Reviews of “Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States” commissioned by the Southern Poverty Law Center, 2011 & second edition 2013.
· History education consulting projects for the Core Knowledge Foundation, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, K12, et al., 2000-
In preparation:
· Explaining Wagner’s Ring: A Scene-by-scene Analysis and Commentary.
· “‘The Centinel’ Identified? A Proposed Solution to a Two-Hundred and Thirty Year Old Boston Mystery.”
· “Election Tallies for the Massachusetts Council, 1764-1774: An Untapped Resource Preserved in the Massachusetts Archives.”
Papers presented:
· “Anglicization’s End: The Slow Collapse of British Identity in Townshend Crisis Massachusetts,” at “Anglicization Reconsidered: Celebrating the Career of John M. Murrin,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, April 20, 2013.
· “‘Loyalty and Joy on this Happy Occasion: Massachusetts Politics at the Moment of Stamp Act Repeal,” Columbia University Seminar on Early American History and Culture, New York, May 2008.
· “The Massachusetts Election Sermons, 1766-1773: A Neglected Window into the Making of the Revolutionary Mind,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, April 2004.
Doctoral dissertation:
· “The Overflowings of Liberty: Massachusetts, the Townshend Crisis and the Reconception of Freedom, 1766-1770,” Princeton University, 2010.