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Historian of American communication, politics, media

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    • Relocated Printers, 1775-1783
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      • HSTW 301 Native American History, 1500-1800 (Spring 2016)
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          • Material Culture Project
          • Narrative History Paper
          • Timeline Project
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      • HSTY 111 U.S. History to Reconstruction (Fall 2021)
        • Commonplace Book Assignment
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          • American Revolution Paper
          • Final Exam Review
          • Midterm Examination
          • Primary Source Analysis
          • Unit 1 Colonial Newspapers Exercise
          • Unit 2 Revolutionary Era Project
          • Unit Essays
        • HSTY 111 Course Schedule
      • HSTY 120 American Lives (Spring 2021)
        • HSTY 120 Assignments
          • Unit 2: Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum America
          • Unit 3: The First American?
        • HSTY 120 Course Schedule
        • HSTY 120-01X Reading Questions
        • Unit 2: Warriors Don’t Cry Essay
      • HSTY 225 Historiography (Fall 2021)
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          • Group Presentation
          • Historiographic Review Essay
        • HSTY 225 Course Schedule
      • HSTY 304 The American Revolution (Spring 2021)
        • Alternate Assignment
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          • Book Review
          • Debating the Constitution
          • HSTA 304 Final Exam
          • Public History Site Visit
          • Stamp Act Twitter Commemoration
          • Townshend Acts Twitter Project
        • HSTY 304 Course Schedule
      • HSTY 306 The Early American Republic (Spring 2020)
        • Early United States Elections Project
        • HSTY 306 Assignments
          • HSTY 306 Book Responses
          • HSTY 306 Final Essay
          • HSTY 306 Historiography Reports
        • HSTY 306 Course Schedule
        • HSTY 306 Pandemic Schedule
      • HSTY 345 Networks and Empires
        • HSTY 345 Assignments
        • HSTY 345 COURSE SCHEDULE
      • HSTY 360 Media and Communications in American History (Fall 2019)
        • HSTY 360 Assignments
          • Digital Newspapers Project
          • Final Exam
        • HSTY 360 Course Schedule
        • Policies
        • Posting Schedule
      • HSTY 450 The Seminar (Fall 2020)
        • HSTY 450 Assignments
        • HSTY 450 Course Schedule
      • Local Historic Sites
    • Johns Hopkins
      • Creating the News (Spring 2011)
      • Revolutionary America (Fall 2010)
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Spring 2017 Book Orders

2 Jan 20172 Jan 2017
Below are the required texts for each course I'll be teaching in the upcoming semester. For students, please note that these have been ordered for the bookstore, but are also…
Professional

Is there a right way for academics to tweet?

24 Oct 201624 Oct 2016
At a recent presentation on social media that I gave with Liz Covart, several of the attendees asked questions both during the session and at the social gathering afterwards about…
writing

The History of My Own Writing

6 Jul 2016
Over the weekend, I spent some time re-reading my book manuscript on print media and the American Revolution, which was based on my Ph.D. dissertation. Comments came back from the…
Commentary…

Focusing While Commuting

23 Jun 201623 Jun 2016
As an early Americanist, the Omohundro Institute's annual conference is always high on my list of events to attend each summer (and more so now that I work for the…
Commentary

Who Decides Elections?

8 Jun 2016
As just about everyone is aware, there was a major kerfuffle this week about the Associated Press and its call on Monday that Hillary Clinton had amassed the requisite number…
HIST 120…

Fall 2016 Book Orders

3 Jun 2016
Below are the required texts for my courses for the upcoming semester. For students, please note that these texts will be on reserve at Whittemore Library, and that I do…
writing

Model Writers

1 Jun 2016
Based on an endorsement by Liz Covart, I've been reading Roy Peter Clark's How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times. It's a guide to brief writing (defined as…
Professional

Open Digital Resources: The AAS Printers File

26 May 2016
A few weeks ago I was grouchy about the prospects of closed digitization projects in early American history. This morning I'm ecstatic. At the Past is Present blog of the American Antiquarian…
Commentary…

Public Education and Private Access

12 May 2016
On Monday of this week I found out that I'm going to need to change many of the research assignments I use in my courses-. For years, the Boston Public Library has provided…
Post Office

Post Office Update #3

13 Apr 2016
It's been a little while since the last update, unfortunately, with the heart of the semester having overtaken my efforts to be quite as productive with the project as I'd…

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