Publications
The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.
Ordinary People and Everyday Life: Perspectives on the New Social History
e.d. (Nashville: AASLH, 1983).
"Pioneers of Public History: Serving Time in the Trenches: David F. Trask, Public Historian and Federal Historian,"
The Public Historian 22 (Spring 2000): 9–27.
"The Redefinition of Historical Scholarship: Calling a Tail a Leg?"
The Public Historian 20 (Fall 1998): 43–57.
“Collecting a National Tragedy,”
The Public Historian 20 (Fall 1998): 43–57.
“Collections Planning: Pinning Down a Strategy,”
Museum News 81 (March/April 2002): 42–45,66–67.
"The Redefinition of Historical Scholarship: Calling a Tail a Leg?: Response,"
The Public Historian 21 (Spring 1999): 95–97.
“September 11 and the Mourning After: Reflections on Collecting and Interpreting the History of Tragedy,"
with Sarah M. Henry. The Public Historian 24 (Summer 2002): 37–52.
"Contested Terrain: History, Museums and the Public,"
The Public Historian
A Historical Guide to the United States,
editor and contributor. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1986).
Why Donald Trump’s Election Observers Are a Bad Idea
New York Times, August 24, 2016.
The Saloon, America’s Forgotten Democratic Institution
New York Times, November 26, 2016.
American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915: Imagery and Context.
McFarland Press, 2013.
Examines deep divides at the height of the Progressive Era as expressed through holidays and holiday imagery.
“Were Christmas Cards America’s First Social Media?”
Zócalo Public Square “What it Means to be American” series, December 2014.
“Star-Spangled Turkeys: Patriotism in Thanksgiving Postcards.”
The Ephemera Journal. Vol. 17, No. 1, September 2014.
“Rural Americans, Postcards, and the Fiscal Transformation of the Post Office Department, 1909-1911.”
The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Selected papers, 2010-2011. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2012.
“Star-Spangled Turkeys: Patriotism in the Visual Culture of Thanksgiving, 1863-1913.”
Mid-Atlantic Almanack. Vol. 16, 2007.
Migrant Musicians: Filipino Entertainers and the Work of Music Making.
With R. Zamora Linmark, Karen Tongson, and Sarita Echavez See. Center for Art and Thought, 2013.
The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora.
Temple University Press, 2009.
Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists.
Meritage Press, 2007.
First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image,
co-authored with Edith P. Mayo, Scala Publishers Ltd., 2004
"Youth Employment and Education: Possible Federal Approaches,"
with Josh Green, Budget Issue Paper, Congressional Budget Office, July 1980.
"Young People with High School Problems: Dropouts and Low Achievers,"
Staff Draft Analysis, Congressional Budget Office, March 1980.
"The Federal Effort for High Schools."
Staff Draft Analysis, Congressional Budget Office, January 1980.
