Articles
“When Sunday Baseball Came to Brooklyn,” (co-authored with Stuart Blumin), New York History, Summer 2023
“Feeling the Bern,” Reviews of Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, by Bernie Sanders; Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, by Bernie Sanders; Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance, by Bernie Sanders. American Literary History Online Forum, March 3, 2020
“Arsenio Hall: The Man Who ‘Hip-Hop-Itized’ Late Night Television,” in American Political Humor, Jody Baumgartner, editor (ABC-CLIO 2019) (co-authored with Simone Best)
“P.J. O’Rourke’s Long Strange American Trip,” “Political Humor and Its Impact on American Life,” in American Political Humor, Jody Baumgartner, editor (ABC-CLIO 2019) (co-authored with Robert Summers)
“Political Culture,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper, editors (Oxford University Press, 2013)
“Do the Write Thing: Politics, Prose, and the Presidency,” American Literary History, Fall 2012
“Bad Rap: Public Enemy and Jewish Enmity,” Anti-Semitism on the Campus: Past and Present, Eunice Pollack, editor (Academic Studies Press, 2011) (co-authored with Robert Summers)
“Snarlin’ Carlin: The Odyssey of a Libertarian,” Studies in American Humor, New Series 3, No. 20, 2009 (co-authored with Patrick M. Burns)
“Pirates and the Good Ship Popular Imagination,” in Plunder, The Art of Joe Zucker: 1977-2008 (Nyehaus, 2008)
“Jews in Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, Stephen Norwood and Eunice Pollack, editors, (ABC-Clio, 2007)
“Tactics, Turnout, and Timing in the Elections of 2004,” American Literary History, Spring 2007 (co-authored with Robert Spitzer)
“The Convictions of Peter Debye,” Daedalus, Fall 2006
“Presidential Biography and the Great Commoner Complex,” American Literary History, Summer 2004 (co-authored with Eric Rauchway)
“Apathy, Apocalypse, and the American Jeremiad,” American Literary History, Spring 2003
“The Virginia History Standards and the Cold War,” The History Teacher, February 2002 (co-authored with Eric Rauchway)
Political Engagement and Disengagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy,” The Journal of American History, December 1997 (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin). Winner of the Binkley-Stephenson Award for the best scholarly article published in the JAH in 1997 (reprinted in Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History Volume 1, edited by James Sabathne and Jason Stacy, Oxford University Press, 2016)
“Politics, Society, and the Narrative of American Democracy,” The Journal of American History, December 1997 (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin)
“’Where is the Real America?’ Politics and Popular Consciousness in the Antebellum Era,” American Quarterly, June 1997 (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin)
“Restoring Faith in Higher Education,” Academic Questions, Spring 1996
“Legislatures and Social Welfare Policy,” Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994
“Where Have All The Thinkers Gone?,” Religion and Intellectual Life, Fall 1988
“The Limits of Responsibility: Social Welfare and Local Government in Seneca County, New York 1860-1875,” Journal of Social History, Spring 1988 (co-authored with Jan M. Saltzgaber)
“Clearinghouse for Paupers: The Poorfarm of Seneca County, New York, 1830-1860,” Journal of Social History, June 1984 (co-authored with Jan M. Saltzgaber)
“From Brawn to Brains: Football and Evolutionary Thought,” Journal of Popular Culture, Spring 1983 (co-authored with Martin LaForse)
“Walter Rauschenbusch: Theology, The Church and The Social Gospel,” Foundations, April-June 1979
“From Religion to Ethics: Andrew D. White and the Dilemma of a Christian Rationalist,” Church History, September 1978
“Sentiment and Statistics in the Progressive Era: The Debate on Capital Punishment in New York,” New York History, April 1975 (co-authored with Richard B. Dressner)
“Whose Foot on Whose Throat?: A Re-examination of Melville's Benito Cereno,” Journal of the College Language Association, March 1975 (reprinted in Dan McCall, ed., Melville's Short Novels, Norton Critical Edition, W. W. Norton, 2002)
“The Puritan Dilemma in the Minister's Black Veil,” American Transcendental Quarterly, Fall 1974
“Feeling the Bern,” Reviews of Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, by Bernie Sanders; Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, by Bernie Sanders; Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance, by Bernie Sanders. American Literary History Online Forum, March 3, 2020
“Arsenio Hall: The Man Who ‘Hip-Hop-Itized’ Late Night Television,” in American Political Humor, Jody Baumgartner, editor (ABC-CLIO 2019) (co-authored with Simone Best)
“P.J. O’Rourke’s Long Strange American Trip,” “Political Humor and Its Impact on American Life,” in American Political Humor, Jody Baumgartner, editor (ABC-CLIO 2019) (co-authored with Robert Summers)
“Political Culture,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper, editors (Oxford University Press, 2013)
“Do the Write Thing: Politics, Prose, and the Presidency,” American Literary History, Fall 2012
“Bad Rap: Public Enemy and Jewish Enmity,” Anti-Semitism on the Campus: Past and Present, Eunice Pollack, editor (Academic Studies Press, 2011) (co-authored with Robert Summers)
“Snarlin’ Carlin: The Odyssey of a Libertarian,” Studies in American Humor, New Series 3, No. 20, 2009 (co-authored with Patrick M. Burns)
“Pirates and the Good Ship Popular Imagination,” in Plunder, The Art of Joe Zucker: 1977-2008 (Nyehaus, 2008)
“Jews in Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, Stephen Norwood and Eunice Pollack, editors, (ABC-Clio, 2007)
“Tactics, Turnout, and Timing in the Elections of 2004,” American Literary History, Spring 2007 (co-authored with Robert Spitzer)
“The Convictions of Peter Debye,” Daedalus, Fall 2006
“Presidential Biography and the Great Commoner Complex,” American Literary History, Summer 2004 (co-authored with Eric Rauchway)
“Apathy, Apocalypse, and the American Jeremiad,” American Literary History, Spring 2003
“The Virginia History Standards and the Cold War,” The History Teacher, February 2002 (co-authored with Eric Rauchway)
Political Engagement and Disengagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy,” The Journal of American History, December 1997 (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin). Winner of the Binkley-Stephenson Award for the best scholarly article published in the JAH in 1997 (reprinted in Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History Volume 1, edited by James Sabathne and Jason Stacy, Oxford University Press, 2016)
“Politics, Society, and the Narrative of American Democracy,” The Journal of American History, December 1997 (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin)
“’Where is the Real America?’ Politics and Popular Consciousness in the Antebellum Era,” American Quarterly, June 1997 (co-authored with Stuart M. Blumin)
“Restoring Faith in Higher Education,” Academic Questions, Spring 1996
“Legislatures and Social Welfare Policy,” Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994
“Where Have All The Thinkers Gone?,” Religion and Intellectual Life, Fall 1988
“The Limits of Responsibility: Social Welfare and Local Government in Seneca County, New York 1860-1875,” Journal of Social History, Spring 1988 (co-authored with Jan M. Saltzgaber)
“Clearinghouse for Paupers: The Poorfarm of Seneca County, New York, 1830-1860,” Journal of Social History, June 1984 (co-authored with Jan M. Saltzgaber)
“From Brawn to Brains: Football and Evolutionary Thought,” Journal of Popular Culture, Spring 1983 (co-authored with Martin LaForse)
“Walter Rauschenbusch: Theology, The Church and The Social Gospel,” Foundations, April-June 1979
“From Religion to Ethics: Andrew D. White and the Dilemma of a Christian Rationalist,” Church History, September 1978
“Sentiment and Statistics in the Progressive Era: The Debate on Capital Punishment in New York,” New York History, April 1975 (co-authored with Richard B. Dressner)
“Whose Foot on Whose Throat?: A Re-examination of Melville's Benito Cereno,” Journal of the College Language Association, March 1975 (reprinted in Dan McCall, ed., Melville's Short Novels, Norton Critical Edition, W. W. Norton, 2002)
“The Puritan Dilemma in the Minister's Black Veil,” American Transcendental Quarterly, Fall 1974