Articles, etc.

Articles:

"'Bring Our Country Back': Country Music, Conservatives, and the Counter-Culture in 1968", Studies in American Culture, 34.1 (October 2011), 103-129.

Exploring the multifaceted nature of country music in 1968, thinking about its role in George Wallace's presidential campaign, its growing appeal for the counter-culture, and the ways in which Merle Haggard, left, fused these disparate elements. Full text (PDF) here.

"'Dead Men Tell No Tales': Outlaw John A. Murrell on the Antebellum Stage", European Journal of American Culture, 28:3 (October 2009), 263-276.

A forgotten moment in the literary career of outlaw John Murrell, identification of a lost playscript, and an embellishment to the careers of Charles Burke and Nathaniel Harrington Bannister. Full text (PDF) here.

'Before the Deluge: Reading, Writing and Rebuilding New Orleans' in Material Culture, 41:2 (Fall 2009), 57-68.

A special review essay exploring four recent books about New Orleans and its history in the light of the efforts to rebuild the city. Full text (PDF) here.

'Independence Day, 1835: The John A. Murrell Conspiracy and the Lynching of the Vicksburg Gamblers in Literature' in Mississippi Quarterly, 59:1-2 (Winter-Spring 2006), 129-160.

An examination of the literary appearances of outlaw John Murrell and the lynching of five gamblers in Vicksburg in 1835 - from contemporary press accounts to the work of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner. Full text (PDF) here.

''The river now began to bear upon our imaginations': Margaret Hall, Frances Trollope, Harriet Martineau, and the Problem of the Antebellum Mississippi' in the Revue Francaise d'etudes Americaines, No. 98 (December 2003).

Three British women experience the Mississipppi River in the antebellum years with mixed results. Full text (PDF) here.

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Book chapters:

"The Mississippi River as Site and Symbol", Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 62-78.

An examination of the Mississippi River's ongoing role in American travel writing, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Full text (PDF) here.

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Other Writing

"The Big Uneasy", in History Today, 61:8 (August 2011). Full text (PDF) here.

"New Orleans in 1858", in BBC History Magazine (June 2011). Full text (PDF) here.

'Mardi Gras Among the Ruins', in New Statesman (20 February 2006).

'Gulf Coast Blues', in New Statesman (12 September 2005)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Literary Encyclopedia

Reviews, etc.

'Review of Thomas Buchanan's Black Life on the Mississippi' in Journal of American Studies, 42:2 (August 2008), 358

Review of Jay Feldman's When The Mississippi Ran Backwards, in Big Muddy, Vol. 6, No. I (2006)

Review of Peirce Lewis' New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape, in Southern Studies, Vol. XII, Nos III & IV (Fall/Winter 2005)