A sampling of my recent writing, including work originally published or reprinted online (for a full list of print publications, see my c.v.).

HISTORY

"Victims, B’hoys, Foreigners, Slave-Drivers, and Despots: Picturing Work, Workers, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century New York," in City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York, ed. Joshua Freeman (Columbia University Press, 2019).

"Afterword," in New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age, eds. Margaret R. Laster and Chelsea Bruner (Routledge, 2018)..

"'Our sketches are real, not mere imaginary affairs': The Visualization of the 1863 New York Draft Riots," in The Civil War in Art and Memory, ed. Kirk Savage, Studies in the History of Art (National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, 2016).

(Co-visual editor), Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's History. Third edition, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008).

(Co-editor), "Revolution in Print: Graphics in Nineteenth-Century America." Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, 7:3 (April 2007). Special Issue of the online publication, co-edited with Georgia Barnhill and Ian Gordon.

"The Graphic Fight: New York Political Cartoonists and the Spanish Civil War," in Fighting Fascism: New York City and the Spanish Civil War, ed. Peter Carroll and James Fernandez (New York: Museum of the City of New York/NYU Press, 2007). Essay in catalog accompanying Museum of the City of New York exhibition.

(Co-author), Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. (Eric Foner, principal author.) New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Winner 2003 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Book Award; Honorable Mention, 2003 American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize. Published also in electronic format as part of the American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Project.

(Co-editor), "A Cabinet of Curiosities." Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, 4:2 (January 2004). Special Issue of the online publication, co-edited with Ann Fabian.

"The Days' Doings: The Gilded Age in the Profane Pictorial Press." Paper presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut, October 17, 2003. A different version of this paper was published as "The Social and Sensational News of the Day': Frank Leslie, The Days' Doings, and Scandalous Pictorial News in Gilded Age New York," New-York Journal of American History, 66:2 (Fall 2003).

"Toward a Meeting of the Minds: Historians and Art Historians." American Art, 17:2 (Summer 2003).

"Reconstructing Representation: Social types, Readers, and the Pictorial Press, 1865-1877." Radical History Review 66 (Fall 1996).


REVIEWS

"CSI (1849)." [Review of Murder at Harvard] Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 3:4 (July 2003).

"The Gang's Not All Here." [Review of Gangs of New York] Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 3:3 (April 2003).

"Of Mice and Memory" [review essay of Maus] Oral History Review 16 (Spring 1988).


FICTION

The Hungry Eye
Part One of a two-part illustrated historical fantasy about mid-nineteenth century New York (serialized in Common-place, 2:2-3, January - April 2002). For a chapter from Part Two, which occurs during the 1863 Draft Riots, click here.


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