I'm quoted in this month's National Geographic History Magazine in an article about the ongoing significance of A Visit from St. Nic...

My article "Just not cricket: Baseball, youth and national identity in late nineteenth-century children’s magazines" has just been...

Over the last few months, with my colleague Malcolm McLaughlin, I've started a new research project on the history of the Great Yarmouth...

Sol Eytinge's illustration of the three spirits visiting Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol , taken from the 1868 Tickno...

Many years in the making, my article on Walter Scott and the reading lives of nineteenth-century American children is out now in Nineteenth-...

  Belatedly, my Readex article on Ralph Keeler was included in this free ebook - Using Digital Newspapers for Biographical Research, Volume...

I've guest edited a Special Issue of Comparative American Studies dedicated to rivers! Available here for those with institutional sub...

I have a long article on the Mississippi in the September issue of History Today (Vol. 69, Issue 9). It was great to use some of the r...

In my continuing effort to keep the memory of Ralph Keeler alive, I've just published a short account of his career and disappearance...

Many moons ago I came across a couple of oblique references to Ralph Keeler while researching travel accounts of the Mississippi River in...

It was great to be asked to contribute something to Open Rivers , a fantastic new interdisciplinary journal "that recognizes rivers ...

Solomon Eytinge, illustration for John Hay's "Jim Bludso" (1871) I've got an article coming out in the next issue of...

I was thrilled to be invited to contribute something to the latest edition of the The Southern Quarterly, a special issue on the Mississ...

My article on Pearl Rivers - poet, journalist, first female editor of an American daily newspaper - and her relationship with the New Orle...

BBC History Magazine  kindly asked me to contribute to the history travel supplement that comes with this month's issue ( January 2013 ...

My article, '“Bring Our Country Back”: Country Music, Conservatives, and the Counter-Culture in 1968', has been published in Studi...

History Today , August 2011 My article on New Orleans and its historic relationship with disasters of one kind and another is up now on ...

My travel guide to New Orleans in 1858 is out today in this month's  BBC History Magazine  (June 2011). This was a fun piece to write, n...

Charles Burke My article, "'Dead Men Tell No Tales': outlaw John A. Murrell on the antebellum stage" has been published in...

My review essay, "Before the Deluge: Reading, Writing and Rebuilding New Orleans", has been published in the Fall 2009 edition of ...