Articles
“A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change,” The Atlantic, 2024
“Indigenous Agency: How Native Americans Put Limits on European Colonial Domination,” Literary Hub, 2024
“How Native Americans Guarded Their Societies against Tyranny,” The Conversation, 2024
“Indigenous people’s concerns and demands must lead the way as we move beyond apologies,” Globe and Mail (Canada), 2024
“Why Indigenous Artifacts Should Be Returned to Indigenous Communities,” Time Magazine, 2024
“More Important Dates Than the First Thanksgiving: April 10, 1987, Federal Recognition of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah (Gay Head),” Time Magazine, 2023
“Eleven Native American Historymakers to Know: Paya Mataha,” Time Magazine, 2023
Book Reviews
A History of Violence, Wall Street Journal, Review of Ned Blackhawk’s The Rediscovery of America (June 30, 2023)
The Not-So-New World, Wall Street Journal, Review of Pekka Hämäläinen’s Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (September 16, 2022)
Exiled from Paris to a Land of Alligators, Wall Street Journal, Review of Joan DeJean’s Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (April 15, 2022)
Revolutionary Answers, Wall Street Journal, Review of Joseph Ellis’s The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783 (September 17, 2021)
Returning to the Sources, Wall Street Journal, Review of Tobey Pearl’s Terror to the Wicked (March 12, 2021)
Brothers in Arms, Wall Street Journal, Review of Peter Cozzens’s Tecumseh and the Prophet (October 23, 2020)
Colonial Boston’s Civil War, Wall Street Journal, Review of Serena Zabin’s The Boston Massacre: A Family History (February 28, 2020)
Mary, Mother of George, Wall Street Journal, Review of Martha Saxton’s The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington (June 8, 2019)
The Revolution Out West, Wall Street Journal, Review of Patrick Spero’s Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West (December 18, 2018)
Filling in Early America’s Blanks, Wall Street Journal, Review of James Horn’s 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy and Joseph Kelly’s Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin (October 25, 2018)
He Opened the Way West, Wall Street Journal, Review of Mary Stockwell’s Unlikely General: “Mad” Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America (May 15, 2018)
Swept Away by the ‘Revolution’, Wall Street Journal, Review of Russell Shorto’s Revolution Song: The Story of America’s Founding in Six Remarkable Lives (November 17, 2017)
The Birth of American Nationalism, Wall Street Journal, Review of Carol Berkin’s A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism (May 31, 2017)
When America Opened Its Doors, Wall Street Journal, Review of A. Roger Ekirch’s American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution (February 17, 2017)
Reframing the American Revolution, Wall Street Journal, Review of Paul Staiti’s Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters’ Eyes and Jane Kamensky’s A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (October 15, 2016)
Commerce and Common Sense, Wall Street Journal, Review of Edward G. Gray’s Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge: Building a United States (2016) (April 22, 2016)