Writing

Articles and Op-eds related to This Strange Country

• “1871 provides a road map for addressing the Trump attempted insurrection,” Made by History, Washington Post

Articles and Op-eds related to The Three-Cornered War

• “Americans Need to Know the Hard Truth about Union Monuments in the West,” The Atlantic
• “Today’s Republicans are like Lincoln in Only One Way,” New York Times
• “The latest battle over the Confederate flag isn’t happening where you’d expect,” Made by History, Washington Post
• “Battle of Valverde,” We’re History
• Page 99 Test: The Three-Cornered War
• “Losing Women—and Women’s History—in Times of Crisis,” History News Network
• “One of the 19th Century’s Most Important Documents …” Washington Post

Interviews and Q&As

• “U.S. Confidential: Historian Goes West to Tell Forgotten Story of the Civil War,” Times of London
• Deborah Kalb Books
• Books & Authors Q&A, Civil War Monitor

Reviews and Best of Lists, The Three-Cornered War

• Smithsonian Magazine: The Ten Best History Books of 2020
• Denver Post: Best Quarantine Reads
• Newsweek: Must-Read Non-Fiction for Spring
• Lone Star Literary Life: Texas Books Preview

• Library Journal (starred review)
• Publishers Weekly
• Los Angeles Review of Books
• New York Journal of Books
• Civil War Times
• Civil War Monitor
• Emerging Civil War
• The Tattooed Historian
• The Reconstruction Era
• Michigan War Studies Review
• Albuquerque Journal

The Three-Cornered War excerpts

• America’s Civil War Magazine
• Time
• Humanities Magazine

Books:

The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner, 2020)

Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (2012)

Named Finalist, Jefferson Davis Book Award, Museum of the Confederacy

Book Trailer

Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (2005)

Selected Articles:

• Contributor: “How Will We Write This History?” Dame Magazine (May 14, 2020)
• “How Historians got Nike to pull an ad campaign – in under six hours,” Washington Post (April 12, 2019)
• “A Brief History of the Stoplight,” Smithsonian Magazine (May 2018)
• “Forces of Nature: Adobe Forts in the Southwest,” Preservation: The Magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (Summer 2016).
• “Urban Destruction in the Civil War,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia (2015).
• “What do you know? A Civil War Pop Quiz,” New York Times (June 4, 2015).
• “The Burning of Atlanta,” New York Times (November 10, 2014).
• “Public Intellectuals? LOL,” Chronicle of Higher Education (August 12, 2014).
• (Un)Catalogued (weekly column) JSTOR Daily (September-December 2014).
• “Napoleon Perkins Loses His Leg,” New York Times (May 26, 2013).
• “Our New Home Looks Inviting,” New York Times (February 28, 2012).
• “Looking for Limbs in all the Right Places: Retrieving the Civil War’s Broken Bodies.” Common-place 12, no. 1 (October 2011).

Selected Media/Book Reviews:

• “Emancipation on Stage,” Civil War Monitor (Winter 2018)
• “Varina,” Civil War Monitor (Fall 2018)
• “The West’s Missing War,” Civil War Monitor (Spring 2018).
• “The Civil War as a Home Invasion,” Civil War Monitor (Summer 2017)
• “Dark Histories of Death: Review of Martha Hodes’ Mourning Lincoln,” Common-place (Summer 2016).
• Copperhead, directed by Ron Maxwell (2013).
• Killing Lincoln, directed by Adrian Moat (2013).
• Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino (2012).
• Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg (2012).
• Death and the Civil War, written and directed by Ric Burns (2012).