Books

Revolutionary Narratives

The book project seeks to leverage the 250th anniversary to highlight innovation and public engagement in the history, scholarship, curation and interpretation of objects and landscapes of the Revolutionary Era. The intended audience includes cultural heritage professionals and higher education faculty and students in museum studies, public history, material culture studies, and related fields… View

2026

Art for Hartford: A Capital City and Its Public Art

Concurrent with its status as the capital city of the state, Hartford plays an outsize role in the development of public art in Connecticut. As a whole, the city has the largest and richest collection of Colonial, Victorian, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Modern and Contemporary public art in Connecticut… View

Vernon Press · 2024

Controversial Monuments and Memorials, A Guide for Community Leaders

Revised edition, David Allison, ed. My essay is “Monumental Relationships: International Monument Culture and the United States in the Early 21st Century… View

Rowman & Littlefield · AASLH · 2023

A History Lover’s Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County

History is nurtured and treasured in the City of Alexandria and in neighboring South Fairfax County. A History Lover’s Guide to Alexandria & South Fairfax County focuses on this special area along the Potomac River… View

The History Press · May 9, 2022

Was denkt das Denkmal? (What does the monument think?)

This unusual collection of essays is written in the guise of the first person experience of a monument, i.e., from the monument’s point of view. My chapter in this edited collection is titled “Spiel mit mir!” (Play with me), and is about the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London… View

Böhlau Verlag · Autumn 2021

Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia Beyond the Academy

“This important book provides insights into the experiences, talents, flexibility, and persistence of independent scholars. The work gives independent scholars the due recognition they justly deserve and offers motivation and inspiration for those who are committed to forging their own unique paths outside the space of academia… View

University Press of Kansas · Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia · 2020

Nineteenth Century, Special Issue on Sculptors & Monuments

For those with an interest in public culture, the twenty-first century has produced a heightened awareness to the often marginalized medium of monuments. When in graduate school—not that long ago—my professors of art and architectural history rarely mentioned the social implications of American monuments for people of color and other under-represented communities… View

Victorian Society in America · Volume 39, Number 2 · Fall 2019

Historic Virginia, A Tour of the State’s Top 75 National Landmarks

National Historic Landmarks are touchstones of our collective past that still resonate with our present. However, important doesn’t always translate into interesting and so we have Historic Virginia: A Tour of the State’s Top 75 National Landmarks––those with the most intriguing and rewarding history… View

Globe Pequot Press · 2019

Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World

Monument Culture brings together a collection of essays from scholars and cultural critics working on the meanings of monuments and memorials in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time of great social and political change… View

Rowman & Littlefield · American Association for State and Local History Series · 2019

Colonial Klaus in Thomas Jefferson’s House

Klaus, a black-and-tan long-haired dachshund is walking the grounds of historic Poplar Forest, where Thomas Jefferson lived more than 200 years ago. The little dog follows a scent into a rabbit hole and when he pops out at the other end, finds himself wearing a tri-corn hat… View

Mascot Books · 2019