Articles

2020

“Educator in Chief,” Trend & Tradition, (Winter 2020) Colonial Williamsburg.

2019

“Dunmore’s Class War,” Trend & Tradition, (Summer, 2019) Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

2018

“Revolutionary Rupture,” Trend & Tradition, (Winter, 2018) Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

2017

“Forgotten Founder,” Trend & Tradition, (Summer 2017) Colonial Williamsburg.

Contributor on The Huffington Post Blog  from June 2012 to June 2017.

2016

“Fighting Words,” Trend & Tradition, (Summer, 2016) Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

“Civil Rights: An American Legacy,” Trend & Tradition, (Spring, 2016) Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

2014   

“Blessings of Liberty,” Oklahoma Humanities Magazine, (Summer, 2014) Oklahoma Humanities Council.

2011

Co-author with H. Michael Hartoonian and Richard D. Van Scotter, “The Great Debate,” Educational Leadership, ASCD, (March 2011) online.

“The Colonial Virginia Frontier and International Native American Diplomacy,” History Now, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (Issue 28, June 2011).

“Colonial Williamsburg in the Twenty-first Century Classroom,” in John A. Beineke, Teaching History to Adolescents: A Quest for Relevance, New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

“Opening the Digital Door: Colonial Williamsburg Online,” Organization of American Historians Magazine of History (January 2011).

2010

“Historic Sites and Your Students,” Social Education (March/April 2010).

2008   

“Colonial Williamsburg and The Idea of America,” First Monday, (4 August 2008).

Authored monthly online “History Connections” column for Newsweek Education September 2005—November 2008.

2007

Co-author with Michael Hartoonian, and Richard Van Scotter, “An Idea Called America,” Social Education (September 2007).

Co-author with Jim Davis, Michael Hartoonian, and Richard Van Scotter, “Special Section: The Colonial Williamsburg History and Civics Project,” The Social Studies, (November/December 2007).

2002

“Neighborhoods Throughout the Countryside,” Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter, 23(Summer 2002).

2001

“Colonial Williamsburg: Un Museu D’Història Viva,” Aixa: Revista Bianual del Museu Etnològic del Montsey, La Gabella, Spain: 2001.

1994

Author of “Becoming Americans: The Interpretive Story at Colonial Williamsburg,” The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter, (November 1994).

1986

“The Magazine Interpretive Plan,” The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

1985

Book review of Jay Anderson’s Time Machines, for The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

1978

“Independent Companies of Virginia,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 86, no. 2 (April 1978): 149-162.

1977

“An Instructor for the Fife,” Colonial Williamsburg Training Material.