Featured Articles
Selected scholarly articles and essays from more than two decades of work in early American, women’s, and public history. Where a piece is available online, the title links to it.
❧ “Telling American Stories: Mattel and the Material Culture of the U.S. Past.” Canadian Review of American Studies 55, no. 2 (2025): 101–126.
❧ “Monuments in Flax and Wool: The Memory Work of Heritage Textiles.” Winterthur Portfolio 58, no. 1 (2024): 41–72.
❧ “‘In the Spaciousness of Uncertainty is Room to Act’: Public History’s Long Game.” NCPH Presidential Address. The Public Historian 42, no. 3 (2020): 264–292.
❧ “‘Artifact Stories’: Making Memories Matter for Amherst Seniors.” With Elizabeth Sharpe. In The Caring Museum: How Older People Contribute to Museums, ed. Hamish Robertson. Edinburgh and Boston: MuseumsEtc, 2015.
❧ “Mehitable Primus and Addie Brown: Women of Color and Hartford’s Nineteenth-Century Dressmaking Trades.” In Clothing New England, ed. Peter Benes. Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 2014.
❧ “Gender, Artisanry, and Craft Tradition in Early New England: The View Through the Eye of a Needle.” William and Mary Quarterly 60, no. 4 (2003): 743–776.
❧ “‘My Part Alone’: The World of Rebecca Dickinson.” New England Quarterly 71 (1998): 1–38. Awarded the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Colonial History.
❧ “Common Parlors: Women and the Recreation of Community Identity in Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1870–1920.” With Anne Digan Lanning. Gender & History 6, no. 3 (1994): 435–455.
