Books
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Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson and the Ordeal of American Nationhood,
1760s-1820s, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, New York
Common Sense and Other Writings by Thomas Paine, ed, W.W. Norton and
Company, 2012
Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England, University of
Pennsylvania, March 2008. Reviewed in American Historical Review, Journal of
American History, Journal of the Early Republic, Common-place, H-SHEAR book
reviews, Historical Journal of Massachusetts. Subject of Panel, McNeil Center of
Early American History
Peer-Reviewed Articles
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“General Jackson’s Passports: Natural Rights and Sovereign Citizens in the Political
Thought of Andrew Jackson, 1780s-1820s,” Studies in American Political
Development, 27 (October 2013), 69-85.
“Enterprise and Emulation: The Moral Economy of Turnpikes in Early National
New England,” Special Edition on “Markets and Morality in Early America,” Early
American Studies, 8 (Fall 2010), 623-45 (invited but refereed)
“The Labors of Liberality: Christian Benevolence and National Prejudice in the
American Founding,” Journal of American History, 94 (March 2008), 1082-1107
“Exciting Emulation: Academies and the Transformation of the Rural North, 1780s1820s,” Journal of American History, 91 (September 2004), 445-70
“The Making of the Victorian Campus: Teacher and Student at Amherst College,
1850-1880,” History of Education Quarterly, 42 (2002), 342-67
“The Politics of ‘Industry’: Federalism in Concord and Exeter, New Hampshire,
1790-1805,” Journal of the Early Republic, 20 (Winter 2000), 637-71
Book Chapters and Invited Articles
 “Natural Rights and National Greatness: Economic Ideology and Social Policy in the
American States, 1780s-1820s,” in The World of the Revolutionary American Republic,
ed. Andrew Shankman (Routledge, 2014), 15,000 words
 “The Republic in the World, 1783-1801,” in The Oxford Handbook of the American
Revolution, ed. Edward Gray and Jane Kamensky (Oxford University Press, 2012), 595611.
 “Vengeance and Civility: A New Look at Early American Statecraft,” Journal of the
Historical Society, 8 (March 2008), 61-83
Short Articles and Review Essays
 “As American as Ambition,” review of William Casey King, Ambition, a History:
From Vice to Virtue (New Haven, 2013), Reviews in American History, 41 (Dec.
2013), 614-19
 “War,” in American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S.
History, (MTM Publishing, 2011), 6,000 words
 Roundtable on J.C.A. Stagg, Borderlines in Borderlands: James Madison and the
Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1812 (New Haven, 2009), in Passport 40, 3
(January 2010)
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“Common Sense and Imperial Atrocity: How Tom Paine saw South Asia in North
America,” Common-place, 8 (July 2009)
“The Interests of the Passions,” review of Nicole Eustace, Passion is the Gale:
Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, 2008),
Reviews in American History, 36 (December 2008), 500-506
“Making Peace Patriotic: Anti-War Perspectives from the Early Republic,” Talk of
the Past Feature Article, Common-Place, 7 (January 2007)
“History of U.S. Military Contributions to the Study of Vaccines against Infectious
Diseases,” with Andrew W. Artenstein, Steven M. Opal, et als., Military Medicine,
170 (April Supplement, 2005), 3-11
“The Second—and Final?—Revolution,” review of John Ferling, Adams vs.
Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Oxford Press, 2004), Reviews in
American History, 33 (March 2005), 15-22
Short Reviews and Other Publications
 Review of Brian Rouleau, “How Honolulu Almost Burned and Why Sailors Matter to
Early American Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History, 38 (June 2014), on H-Diplo
 Review of What So Proudly We Hailed: Essays on the Contemporary Meanings of the
War of 1812 (Brookings Institution, 2012), forthcoming for Journal of American Studies
 Review of Patrick Weil, The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the
American Republic (University of Pennsylvania, 2012), forthcoming Perspectives on
Politics
 Review of Nicole Eustace, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2012), forthcoming for Journal of American Studies
 Review of Angela Pulley Hudson, Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and
Slaves and the Making of the American South (University of North Carolina, 2010),
Journal of the Early Republic (forthcoming)
 Review of Michal Jan Rozbicki, Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American
Revolution (University of Virginia, 2011), Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
forthcoming
 Review of John Phillip Reid, Legislating the Courts: Judicial Dependence in Early
National New Hampshire (Northern Illinois, 2009), Law and History Review, 28
(August 2010)
 “The Public as a Project,” review of Carolyn Eastman, A Nation of Speechifiers: Making
an American Public After the Revolution (Chicago, 2009), H-SHEAR, 14 July 201
 Review of Eric Slauter, The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the
Constitution (Chicago, 2009), Journal of American History, 96, 4 (March 2010)
 “Academies” (1,500 words) and “Robert Coram” (500 words) in Encyclopedia of the
American
Enlightenment (forthcoming, 2011)
 Review of Caitlin A. Fitz, “‘A Stalwart Motor of Revolutions’: An American Merchant in
Pernambuco, 1817-1825,” The Americas, 65:1 (July 2008), for H-Diplo, November 2009
 Review of Terry Bouton, Taming Democracy: “The People,” The Founders, and the
Troubled Ending of the American Revolution (Oxford, 2006), Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 39 (Autumn 2008), 286-88
 “Freedom from High Federalism,” review of Edward J. Larson, A Magnificent
Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign
(Free Press, 2007), Common-Place, 8 (March 2008)
 Review of Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s
Independence (Knopf, 2005), New England Quarterly, 78 (December 2005), 651-53
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“Modernizers of the Old South,” review of Jonathan Daniel Wells, The Origins of the
Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861 (Chapel Hill, 2004), H-SHEAR Reviews, August 2005
“Deference, Democracy, and Ethics in Josiah Quincy’s Boston,” review of Matthew C.
Crocker, The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston,
1800-1830 (Amherst, Mass., 1999) H-SHEAR Reviews, November 2000
“America and the World, 1776-1830” (3,000 words), entry in Paul Finkelman, ed.,
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation. “Individualism” (2,000 words),
“Autobiography and Memoir” (1,500 words), and “Whiskey Rebellion” (750 words) in
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (2005), ed. Paul Finkelman