Publications
The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.
The AAM Guide to Collections Planning
with Elizabeth Merritt. (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 2004).
Ordinary People and Everyday Life: Perspectives on the New Social History
e.d. (Nashville: AASLH, 1983).
A Historical Guide to the United States,
editor and contributor. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1986).
Public History: Essays from the Field,
e.d., with Peter S. LaPaglia. (Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2004).
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.
"Federal Compensation of Federal Lands: The Estimated Cost of Tax Equivalency,"
Staff Draft Analysis, Congressional Budget Office, September 1979.
"Down Home In the City: A Store-Bought Remembrance."
Wine, Food and the Arts, II: Works Gathered By the American Institute of Wine and Food. San Francisco: AIWF and Swan’s Island Books, 1997.
An essay on food and memory.
"The Beaded Adidas,"
in Charles Camp, ed. Time and Temperature: A Centennial Retrospective. Washington, DC: American Folklore Society, 1989: 66–67; reprinted in The Messenger (Wheelwright Museum Newsletter), 1989; The Runner (Smithsonian American Indian Newsletter); 1990.
A piece which examines a modern American Indian object–a pair of beaded running shoes–and comments on scholarly resistance to changing forms in American Indian expressive culture.
"Research in the Nation's Junkpile: Folklore Research in the Smithsonian Institution."
Folklore Forum 5, no. 1(January, 1972).
An article, based on dissertation research at the Smithsonian, commenting on the usefulness of collections there to folklorists and researchers in American material culture.
"We Never Saw These Things Before': Southwest Indian Laughter and Resistance to the Invasion of the Tse va ho."
In M. Weigle and Barbara Babcock. The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway. Phoenix: The Heard Museum, 1996.
An essay on the uses of traditional and contemporary visual art and material culture as a form of resistance among Pueblos.
