- “Embracing the Digital Revolution in the History Classroom,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, (December 2018)
- “Memory by Consensus: Remembering the American Revolutionary War in Chicago,” Journal of American Studies 50, No. 4 (November 2016), 971-997.
- "Teaching and Learning Centers Serve all Faculty," [with Gail Rathbun], Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015), 103-104.
- “From Mr. Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, from the Personal to the Historical: Google’s Ngram Viewer as a Research Tool,” For the People: A Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association 17,no. 1 (Spring 2015), 6-8.
- “Serenading the President: John Adams, the XYZ Affair, and the 18th-Century American Presidency,” Federal History 6 (January 2014), 108-122.
- “Minding the Realm: William Least Heat-Moon and the Blue Highways of Public Memory,” South Shore Journal, Vol. 5 (2013), 203-209.
- “Barnet Hodes’s Quest to Remember Haym Salomon, the Almost Forgotten Jewish Patriot of the American Revolution,” American Jewish Archives Journal 63, no. 2 (December 2011), 43-62.
- “Connecting the President to the People: Washington’s Neutrality, Genet’s Challenge, and Hamilton’s Fight for Public Support,” Journal of the Early Republic 31, no. 3 (Fall 2011),435466.
- “The Gentle Power of Opinion: The Federalist Campaign against the Massachusetts Constitutional Society,” Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 19 (April 2011), 12-51.
-“Proclamations and the Founding Father Presidents, 1789-1825,” Federal History 3 (January 2011), 80-90.
- "`When Fans Wanted to Rock, the Baseball Stopped': Sports, Promotions, and the Demolition of Disco on Chicago's South Side," Baseball Research Journal 38, no. 1 (Summer 2009),11-16.
- “An American Founder’s Dream: Using Benjamin Rush’s Subconscious as an Introduction to the Study of History,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 34, no. 1 (Spring 2009), 11-16.
- "Rites of Passage: Postal Petitioning as a Tool of Governance in the Age of Federalism," [with Richard R. John], The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development, eds. Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. (Miami, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2002), 100-138.
- "'That Eye Is Now Dim and Closed For Ever': The Purported Image of Mary K. Goddard," Maryland Historical Magazine, 96, no. 2 (Summer 2001), 221-225.
- "Mary K. Goddard: A Classical Republican in a Revolutionary Age," Maryland Historical Magazine, 96, no. 1 (Spring 2001), 5-27.
- “The ‘Goddard Broadside’: Mary K. Goddard’s Printing of the Declaration of Independence,” Maryland Historical Society News (Fall 2011), 26-27.
- “The Primary Documents of John Hancock,” Milestone Documents of American Leaders: Exploring the Primary Sources of Notable Americans. Vol. 2. Eds. Paul Finkelman and James Percoco (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2009), 932-949.
- “The College’s Honorable Presence in the Pacific Theater during World War II,” Mac News: The Alumni Magazine of MacMurray College 26, no. 2 (Summer 2006), 28-29.
- “Pathways to Documenting Teaching Excellence,” [with Julie Saam, Carolyn Schult, and Stephanie Whitehead], POD Network Conference, November 18, 2023.
- “’I should have retired last year’: Themes from the Pandemic,” [with Michael Morrone], ITLC Lilly Online Conference, December 3, 2020.
- Invited Workshop: “Publishing your SoTL Research,” Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Conference, Indiana University Southeast, September 28, 2018.
- Workshop: “Seeking what it means to be a Teacher-Scholar in a Learner-Centered Environment,” [with Julie Saam, Vicki Román-Lagunas, and Mark Canada], American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ Academic Affairs Summer Meeting, Bellevue, Washington, July 27, 2018.
- Workshop: “Using Geographic Information System (GIS) for Public History Research, Course Projects, and Crowd-Sourced Activities,” [with Joseph Ferrandino], National Council on Public History, Las Vegas, Nevada. (April 18, 2018)
- Workshop: “Mapping It Out: Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Create Digital Projects in Early American History Courses,” [with Joseph Ferrandino] Digitorium, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 2, 2017.
- Workshop: “Getting your Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Published,” Midwest Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, South Bend, Indiana, April 1, 2016.
- “Why are we here? Making Inclusive Excellence part of the Higher Education Experience,” New Teaching Institute, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana, August 20, 2015.
- "What's a CTL and will it Hurt?" [Co-presented With Gail Rathbun] FALCON, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 9, 2014.
- “Eighteenth-Century American Life and Twenty-First Century Learning Technologies,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Quebec, October 18, 2014.
- “Digital Possibilities in Different Learning Environments,” New Teaching Institute, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana, August 20, 2014.
- “Blending Digital Scholarship and the Traditional Term Paper,” Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching Annual Retreat, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 17, 2014.
- “The Dedication of the Living: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Abraham Lincoln in Chicago and London,” Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, Illinois, September 27, 2013.
- “From The Fort Dearborn Massacre Monument to the Battle of Fort Dearborn Park: The Shifting of Sculpture and Memory in the City of Chicago,” Annual Meeting for the British Association of American Studies, Manchester, England, April 13, 2012.
-“Spies, Warriors, and Financiers: Remembering the American Revolutionary War in Chicago,” Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, Illinois, September 30, 2011.
- “A Contested Election in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District, 1793 to 1794,” Virginia Historical Society Colloquium, Richmond, Virginia, June 8, 2011.
- Workshop: “How to Make the Subject Matter Relevant to Students,” Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana, April 11, 2011.
- “Proclamations, Addresses, and Resolutions: George Washington, John Adams and the Emerging Popular Presidency in the Eighteenth Century,” Annual Meeting of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 15, 2010.
- “The XYZ Affair, Public Opinion, and the Early American Presidency,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, Wisconsin, June 26, 2010.
- “Serenading the President: The XYZ Affair, Public Opinion, and the Eighteenth-Century American Presidency,” Early American Workshop, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 2010.
- “George Washington and the Kentuckians,” COAS Research Conference, Indiana University Northwest, November 12, 2008.
- “The Death of Louis XVI, the Neutrality of George Washington, and the Fight for Public Opinion,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 2008.
- “George Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality and the Struggle for Public Opinion: How Foreign Affairs Contributed to the Democratization of American Politics,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008.
- “‘Everything that will impress Public Opinion’”: The Federalist Campaign against the Massachusetts Constitutional Society during the mid-1790s,” COAS Research Conference, Indiana University Northwest, November 15, 2007.
- “Contests of Opinion: A Democratic Post-Revolutionary America, 1793-1795,” International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, February 27, 2001.
- “`Founded in Opinion and Confidence’: Public Opinion in Washingtonian America,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Buffalo, New York, July 2000.
- “George Washington and the Politics of Opinion,” New England Historical Association, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, April 2000.
- “Postmistress and Printess of Baltimore: The Public Life of Mary Goddard, 1774-1790,” Women in History Group, University of Illinois at Chicago, December 1998.
- “Federalist Attitudes toward the Democratic-Republican Societies,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, University Park, Pennsylvania, July 1997.
- “Lincoln Returns to New Hampshire,” [with Robert Young], For the People: A Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 18, No. 3 (Fall 2016), 5.
- “Liberal Arts Teach Critical Thinking Skills,” [with Mark Hoyert] The Times (Munster, Ind.), July 26, 2016.
- “Rip Van Winkle returns to the rink, discovers a revolution,” Let’s Play Hockey (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Vol. 44, No. 24, (March 17, 2016), 4.
- “Imagining the twilight of Abraham Lincoln’s life,” The Times (Munster, Ind.), January 10, 2016.
- “Two founders died on nation's 50th birthday,” The Times (Munster, Ind.), July 4, 2008.
- “Declaration of Independence guided Lincoln,” (Online version: “What Honest Abe honestly thought of the Declaration of Independence”) The Times (Munster, Ind.), July 4, 2007.
- “Charles Carroll,” “Fraunces’ Tavern,” and “Liberty Incident,” Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Eds. Gregory Fremont- Barnes and Richard A. Ryerson (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006).
- “Love, humanity resonate in slavery’s story,” Journal-Courier (Jacksonville, Ill.), February 15, 2004.
- Podcast Appearance, “President John Quincy Adams,” American History Hit, October 12, 2023.
- Podcast Appearance, “President John Adams,” American History Hit, August 16, 2023.
- Guest Editor, South Shore Journal, Vol. 5 (2013)
- A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe by Jeanne E. Abrams. (New York: New York University Press, 2021), Journal of American History, 109, no. 3 (December 2022), 657-658.
- John Adams, Slavery, and Race: Ideas, Politics, and Diplomacy in an Age of Crisis by Arthur Scherr. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2018) Journal of American History, 106, no. 4 (March 2020), 1055.
- The Adams Papers. Series II: Adams Family Correspondence. Volume 12: March 1797-April 1798. Edited by Sara Martin et al. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 2017), 96-97.
- Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment. By Sandra A. Rebok. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. History: Review of New Books, 44, no. 1 (January 2016), 27-28.
- James Madison, the South, and the Trans-Appalachian West, 1783-1803. By Jeffrey Allen Zemler. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. North Carolina Historical Review, 91, no. 4 (October 2014), 455-456.
- A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe. Ed. by Stuart Leibiger. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Journal of American History, 100, no. 3 (December 2013), 825-826.
- Rustic Warriors: Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New England Frontier, 1689–1748. By Steven C. Eames. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2011. The Historian, 75, no. 1 (Spring 2013), 140-141.
- Celebrating the Republic: Presidential Ceremony and Popular Sovereignty, from Washington to Monroe. By Sandra Moats. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. Journal of American History, 97, no. 3 (December 2010), 793-794.
- Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson’s Early American Women. By Marion Rust. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Maryland Historical Magazine, 104, no. 3 (Fall 2009), 337-338.
- The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath that Brought Down Al Capone. By William J. Helmer and Arthur J. Bilek. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2004, paperback edition, 2006. Illinois Heritage, 10, no. 1 (January-February 2007), 30.
- The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture. By Todd Estes. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 104, no. 4 (Autumn 2006), 707-708.
- Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I. By Carl R. Weinberg. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Illinois Heritage, 8, no. 6 (November-December 2005), 21.
- His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64, by Owen Lovejoy. Edited by William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore. Foreword by Paul Simon. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Illinois Heritage, 8, no. 2 (March-April 2005), 22-23.
- George Washington Reconsidered. Edited by Don Higginbotham. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Maryland Historical Magazine, 96, no. 4 (Winter 2001), 496-497.
- Sylvia E. Bowman Award for Distinguished Teaching, Indiana University (2018)
- FACET Innovate Awards Finalist for Collaborative Activities [with Joseph Ferrandino], Faculty
- Academy on Excellence in Teaching, Indiana University (2018)
- Founders’ Day Teaching Award, Indiana University Northwest (2012)
- Inducted as member of the Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching, Indiana University (2011)
- Trustees’ Teaching Award, Indiana University Northwest (2010, 2012)
- Dewey E. Wilkins Award for Excellence in Teaching, MacMurray College (2005)
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