Reviews, Op-eds, and Features

SunLit Interview: Megan Kate Nelson saw a natural jewel, and a metaphor, in “Saving Yellowstone,” Colorado Sun.
“No Walk in the Park.” Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Celebrating 150 Years of Yellowstone National Park,” Inhabitat.
“New Book on Yellowstone,” American Studies.
“Saving Yellowstone: A Tale of Exploration and War against Native Peoples,” Natural Resources Management Today (March 2022): 16-17.
“On 150th anniversary, new book looks back at the founding of Yellowstone National Park,” Daily Montanan.
H-CivWar. Author Interview, Part One.
H-CivWar. Author Interview, Part Two.

“Five Myths about Yellowstone,” Washington Post.
“How Sitting Bull’s Fight for Indigenous Land Rights Shaped the Creation of Yellowstone National Park,” Smithsonian Magazine.
“The Big Business Politics Behind the Formation of Yellowstone National Park,” TIME.
“The best books about America’s National Parks,” Shepherd.com.
“1871 provides a road map for addressing the Trump attempted insurrection,” Made by History, Washington Post

“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

“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

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

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).

“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).