Reviews in Scholarly Journals
God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan, by Jon Butler. Reviews in American History, March 2021
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, by Mike Wallace. Reviews in American History, September 2018
The First Republican Army: The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Civil War, by John H. Matsui. The American Historical Review, February 2018
Elvis’s Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield, by Brian McAllister Linn. Reviews in American History, June 2017
Failing Our Veterans: The G. I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation, by Mark Boulton. The Journal of American History, June 2015
Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left, by Martin Duberman. Reviews in American History, March 2014
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One, by Mark Kurlansky. The Michigan Historical Review, Fall 2012
Theodor SUESS Geisel, by Donald E. Pease. Reviews in American History, March 2012 (co-authored with Patrick M. Burns)
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, by James McGrath Morris. Reviews in American History, September 2011
Record Makers and Breakers: Voice of the Independent Rock ‘N’ Roll Pioneers, by John Broven. Indiana Magazine of History, December 2010
The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War, by Brian Schoen, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2010
Taking Woodstock, directed by Ang Lee, The Journal of American History, June 2010 (co-authored with Robert O. Summers)
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, by Donald Worster, Reviews in American History, March 2009
A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record, by Wayne Robins, Journal of Popular Music Studies, March 2008
The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the 19th Century, by Martha Hodes, Reviews in American History, June 2007
Crossroads: American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation, by Mitchell K. Hall, Pacific Historical Review, February 2007
Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, by Leerom Medovoi, American Historical Review, October 2006
The Rise of American Democracy, by Sean Wilentz, Reviews in American History, June 2006
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War, by James L. Huston, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring 2005
The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, by Meg Jacobs, William Novak, and Julian Zelizer (editors), American Historical Review, February 2005
American Public Life and the Historical Imagination, by Wendy Gamber, Michael Grossberg, and Hendrik Hartog (editors), American Historical Review, February 2005
Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Masculinity, by Peter Lehman; Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry, by Bruce Pegg, American Studies, Spring 2004
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865, by Alice Fahs, Political Communication, July-September 2004
“a twist of fate from which liberalism is still reeling, ”The Bookpress, May 1999
“Schools with Soul: Essay Review,” The New England Quarterly, June 1995
“Science, The State and Higher Education in America: A Review Essay,” Journal of Social History, Fall 1994
“Shver Zu Zein A Yid: The Jewish People in America: A Review Essay,” The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, 1994
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Richard L. Bushman, Historian, Summer 1993
“Perestroika for Poverty Programs,” Crosscurrents, Winter 1992/1993
In the Cause of True Education: Henry Barnard & Nineteenth-Century School Reform by Edith Nye MacMullen, The Journal of American History, December 1991
The Moral Framework of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930 by Paula Baker, New York History, October 1991
“Lasching Liberals: A Critical Essay,” Crosscurrents, Fall 1991
“History of Education: A Review Essay,” Journal of Social History, Summer 1991
Phi Beta Kappa in American Life: The First Two Hundred Years by Richard Nelson Current, The American Historical Review, June 1991
Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy by Daphne Patai, The Journal of American History, December 1989
Welfare, Democracy, And The New Deal by William R. Brock, Journal of Social History. Fairfax: Summer 1989
Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830 by Robert Cray,
Journal of Social History, Winter 1989
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz, Labor History, Winter 1988
The Homeless Transient in the Great Depression: New York State 1929-1941 by Joan M. Crouse, New York History, January 1988
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 by Christine Stansell, New York History, July 1987
Crucible of the Millenium: The Burned-Over District of New York in the 1840s by Michael Barkun, New York History, July 1987
Intellectual Life in America: A History by Lewis Perry, The Historian, February 1986
Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890-1920 by R. Jeffrey Lustig, Labor History, Fall 1985
A City in the Republic: Antebellum, New York and the Origins of Machine Politics by Amy Bridges, New York History, April 1985
The Divided Mind of Protestant America by Ferenc Szasz, The Historian, May 1984
“Moody Americans,” Reviews in American History, Fall 1981
“Creating an American Identity: A Review Essay,” New York History, October 1976
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, by Mike Wallace. Reviews in American History, September 2018
The First Republican Army: The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Civil War, by John H. Matsui. The American Historical Review, February 2018
Elvis’s Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield, by Brian McAllister Linn. Reviews in American History, June 2017
Failing Our Veterans: The G. I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation, by Mark Boulton. The Journal of American History, June 2015
Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left, by Martin Duberman. Reviews in American History, March 2014
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One, by Mark Kurlansky. The Michigan Historical Review, Fall 2012
Theodor SUESS Geisel, by Donald E. Pease. Reviews in American History, March 2012 (co-authored with Patrick M. Burns)
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, by James McGrath Morris. Reviews in American History, September 2011
Record Makers and Breakers: Voice of the Independent Rock ‘N’ Roll Pioneers, by John Broven. Indiana Magazine of History, December 2010
The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War, by Brian Schoen, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2010
Taking Woodstock, directed by Ang Lee, The Journal of American History, June 2010 (co-authored with Robert O. Summers)
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, by Donald Worster, Reviews in American History, March 2009
A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record, by Wayne Robins, Journal of Popular Music Studies, March 2008
The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the 19th Century, by Martha Hodes, Reviews in American History, June 2007
Crossroads: American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation, by Mitchell K. Hall, Pacific Historical Review, February 2007
Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, by Leerom Medovoi, American Historical Review, October 2006
The Rise of American Democracy, by Sean Wilentz, Reviews in American History, June 2006
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War, by James L. Huston, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring 2005
The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, by Meg Jacobs, William Novak, and Julian Zelizer (editors), American Historical Review, February 2005
American Public Life and the Historical Imagination, by Wendy Gamber, Michael Grossberg, and Hendrik Hartog (editors), American Historical Review, February 2005
Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Masculinity, by Peter Lehman; Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry, by Bruce Pegg, American Studies, Spring 2004
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865, by Alice Fahs, Political Communication, July-September 2004
“a twist of fate from which liberalism is still reeling, ”The Bookpress, May 1999
“Schools with Soul: Essay Review,” The New England Quarterly, June 1995
“Science, The State and Higher Education in America: A Review Essay,” Journal of Social History, Fall 1994
“Shver Zu Zein A Yid: The Jewish People in America: A Review Essay,” The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, 1994
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Richard L. Bushman, Historian, Summer 1993
“Perestroika for Poverty Programs,” Crosscurrents, Winter 1992/1993
In the Cause of True Education: Henry Barnard & Nineteenth-Century School Reform by Edith Nye MacMullen, The Journal of American History, December 1991
The Moral Framework of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930 by Paula Baker, New York History, October 1991
“Lasching Liberals: A Critical Essay,” Crosscurrents, Fall 1991
“History of Education: A Review Essay,” Journal of Social History, Summer 1991
Phi Beta Kappa in American Life: The First Two Hundred Years by Richard Nelson Current, The American Historical Review, June 1991
Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy by Daphne Patai, The Journal of American History, December 1989
Welfare, Democracy, And The New Deal by William R. Brock, Journal of Social History. Fairfax: Summer 1989
Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830 by Robert Cray,
Journal of Social History, Winter 1989
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz, Labor History, Winter 1988
The Homeless Transient in the Great Depression: New York State 1929-1941 by Joan M. Crouse, New York History, January 1988
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 by Christine Stansell, New York History, July 1987
Crucible of the Millenium: The Burned-Over District of New York in the 1840s by Michael Barkun, New York History, July 1987
Intellectual Life in America: A History by Lewis Perry, The Historian, February 1986
Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890-1920 by R. Jeffrey Lustig, Labor History, Fall 1985
A City in the Republic: Antebellum, New York and the Origins of Machine Politics by Amy Bridges, New York History, April 1985
The Divided Mind of Protestant America by Ferenc Szasz, The Historian, May 1984
“Moody Americans,” Reviews in American History, Fall 1981
“Creating an American Identity: A Review Essay,” New York History, October 1976