ARTICLES SUBMITTED:
“Patriarchal Magistrates, Associated Improvers, and Monitoring Militias: Visions of Self-Government in the Early American Republic, 1760-1840,” in Peter Thompson and Peter Onuf, eds., State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States, under consideration at University of Virginia Press;
“’King George has issued too many pattents for us’: Property and Democracy in Jeffersonian New York,” submitted as part of a Forum on the “New Nation Votes Project,” under consideration by the Journal of the Early Republic;
ARTICLES:
“Press, Party, and Public Sphere in the United States, 1790-1840,” in Mary Kelly and Robert Gross, eds., The History of the Book in America, Vol. 2 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), 179-190;
S.H.E.A.R. Presidential Address: "Cultures of Nationalism, Movements of Reform, and the Composite-Federal Polity: From Revolutionary Settlement to Antebellum Crisis,” Journal of the Early Republic 29 (2009), 1-33;
“Spheres, Sites, Subjectivity, History: Reframing Antebellum American Society,” Journal of the Early Republic 28 (2008), 75-82;
“On the Edges of the Public Sphere,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 62 (2005), 93-98;
"Consent, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution and the Early American Republic," in Jeffery L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 207-250;
"Ecology," in Daniel Vickers, ed., A Companion to Colonial America (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2003), 44-75.
"'The True Spiritual Seed': Sectarian Religion and the Persistence of the Occult in Eighteenth-Century New England," in Peter Benes, ed., Wonders of the Invisible World: 1600-1900, Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar, 1992 (Boston: Boston University, 1995), 107-126.
"A Deacon's Orthodoxy: Religion, Class, and the Moral Economy of Shays Rebellion," in Robert Gross, ed., In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993), 205-238.
"'To the Quiet of the People': Revolutionary Settlements and Civil Unrest in Western Massachusetts, 1774-1789," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 46 (1989), 425-462; republished in Peter S. Onuf, ed., The Revolution in the States, vol. 3 of The New American Nation, 1775-1820, 12 vols. (Hamden, Conn.: Garland Publishing Co., 1991).
"'For Honour and Civil Worship to Any Worthy Person': Burial, Baptism, and Community on the Massachusetts Near Frontier, 1730-1790," in Robert B. St. George, ed., Material Life in America, 1600-1860 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988), 463-485; (English version of essay below);
"Enterrement, Bapteme, et Communaut‚ en Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1740-1790," Annales: Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 42 (1987), 653-686.
REVIEW ESSAYS:
“Trouble with Paradox,” a review of Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), in William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 67 (2010), 549-557.
“Consumer Virtues in Revolutionary America?” a review of T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), in Reviews in American History 23 (2004), 329-40.
"North Atlantic Culture Wars," a review of Kevin Phillips, The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, & the Triumph of Anglo-America (New York: Basic Books, 1999), in Reviews in American History 28 (2000), 351-359.
"Reason and Passion in the Public Sphere: Habermas and the Cultural Historians," a review essay considering David S. Shields, Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America (University of North Carolina Press/IEAHC, 1997); David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism (University of North Carolina Press/IEAHC, 1997); Simon P. Newman, Parades and Politics of the Streets: Festive Culture in the Early Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) Mary P. Ryan, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century (University of California Press, 1997); William L. Miller, Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress (A.A. Knopf, 1996); and Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy William Rehg, trans. (M.I.T. Press, 1996), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29 (1998), 43-67.
"Revolution in the Green Mountains," a review of Michael A. Bellesiles, Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle of Independence on the Early American Frontier (Charlottesville, 1993), in Reviews in American History, 22 (1994), 406-412.
"Reading and Talking in Early America," a review of Richard D. Brown, Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 (New York, 1989), in Reviews in American History, 19 (1991), 31-36.