Publications
Books:
James Farmer’s Lifelong Nonviolent Quest for Civil Rights, under contract, University of
Massachusetts Press
Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania, forthcoming, Pennsylvania Historical Association/Temple University Press
New Directions in the Study of African-American Recolonization, University Press of
Florida, 2017
Pennsylvania Hall: A “Legal Lynching” in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell, Oxford
University Press, 2013.
Colonization and its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in
Antebellum Pennsylvania, New York University Press, 2011, 2012.
Book Chapters:
“Ladies’ and Soldiers’ Aid Societies,” Essential Civil War Curriculum, (Online Peer-
Reviewed Textbook), July 2019
“The Mythology of Post-Racial America: On the Shadowy Color Line in the Twenty-
First Century,” Race in America: How a Pseudo-Scientific Concept Shaped
Human Interaction, edited by Patricia Reid-Merritt, Praeger, 2016.
“‘Hanoi Jane’ in American Myth and Memory,” The Vietnam War in Popular Culture,
edited by Ron Milan, ABC-CLIO, 2016
Articles:
“Freedom Summer was the Ultimate Protest Summer. And It’s Time for Another One,”
The Activist History Review July 2018.
“Civil Rights Today,” American Book Review 37(3) March/April 2016.
“The Economization of Freedom: Abolitionists Versus Merchants in the Culture War that
Destroyed Pennsylvania Hall,” Canadian Review of American Studies, 47(2)
Summer 2017.
“A Stalking Horse for the Civil Rights Movement”: Head Start and the Legacy of the
Freedom Schools The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts & Letters in the
South 52(1) Fall 2014
“The Communist International and the Dilemma of the American ‘Negro Problem’: The
Limitations of The Black Belt Self-Determination Thesis” WorkingUSA: The
Journal of Labor and Society December 2012
“Seeking ‘an immutable pledge from the slave holding states’: The Pennsylvania
Abolition Society and Black Resettlement,” Pennsylvania History, Winter 2008
“‘From motives of generosity, as well as self-preservation’: Thomas Branagan,
Colonization, and the Gradual Emancipation Movement,” American Nineteenth
Century History 6(2) June 2005
