Books:
Plymouth and the Revolution: Patriots, Loyalists, and a Community at War. Charleston, SC: The History Press, forthcoming April 13, 2027.
Duxbury…Past and Present. Duxbury, MA: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, 2008.
King Caesar of Duxbury: Exploring the World of Ezra Weston, Shipbuilder and Merchant. Duxbury, MA: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, 2006. Reviewed in Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Spring 2010, pp. 159–161.
Scholarly Publications:
Dissertation:
“Architects of Civil War Homecoming: Northern Relief Workers and Returning Union Veterans.” Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University, 2022. Awarded the Anne C. Bailey Dissertation Prize by the Society of Civil War Historians, 2024.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“‘This Most Atrocious Crusade Against Personal Freedom’: Anti-abolitionist Violence in Boston on the Eve of War.” New England Quarterly, March 2021.
“The Search for Duxbury’s First Burying Ground: Victorian Era Duxbury Discovers its Pilgrim Past.” In Duxbury, Our Pilgrim Story: A 2020 Perspective. Duxbury, MA: Duxbury 2020, 2020.
“The Cultivation of the Higher Self: William Smith Clark and Agricultural Education.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Winter 2008.
“‘To Defend Mr. Garrison’: William Cooper Nell and the Personal Politics of Antislavery.” New England Quarterly, September 1997.
Selected Historical Essays and Shorter Publications:
“A Night of Fear and Flame: The Plymouth Panic of March 21, 1776.” Mayflower Quarterly Magazine, Summer 2026.
“Kingston and the Civil War.” In Kingston: Tales of Jones River Village, Kingston’s 300 Years. Kingston, MA: Kingston 300th Anniversary Committee, 2025.
“How a Renaissance Man Preserved the Bradford Legacy.” In Kingston: Tales of Jones River Village, Kingston’s 300 Years. Kingston, MA: Kingston 300th Anniversary Committee, 2025.
“‘Continuing the Work’: Boston Women and Aid to Civil War Veterans and Families.” The Beehive, Massachusetts Historical Society, March 2020.
“Vikings in Plymouth Bay before Pilgrims? A Historiographical Sketch of a Myth’s Evolution.” Mayflower Quarterly, September 2014.
“Opening the Grave of Myles Standish…Thrice.” Mayflower Quarterly, September 2014.
“Sarah Wingate Taylor: The Poet of Clark’s Island.” In The Duxbury Beach Book. Duxbury, MA: Duxbury Beach Reservation, 2007.
Professional Experience:
Executive Director, Plymouth Antiquarian Society, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 2024–present
Lecturer in History, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 2022–2024
Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Fellow, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015–2022
Executive Director, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 2013–2015
Executive Director, Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1998–2013
Education:
Ph.D., History, Boston University, 2022
M.A., History, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1996
B.A., English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1994
Selected Honors and Fellowships:
Anne C. Bailey Dissertation Prize, Society of Civil War Historians, 2024Robert Shotwell Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University, 2021–2022
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2019
Gerald and Deanne Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching, Boston University, 2018
