Chicago Reader
The untold school segregation story behind Bernie Sanders’s 1963 arrest (March 1, 2016).
The ghosts of Great Lakes (April 6, 2020).
Chicago was a sanctuary city long before Trump’s presidency (June 22, 2017).
Donald Trump staged his mid-90s comeback in Gary, Indiana. What did Gary get in return? (April 29, 2016).
An airport in the lake: How Mayor Richard J. Daley’s ambitious plan failed to take flight (July 3, 2019).
A trip back in time to the World’s Columbian Exposition (November 20, 2019).
Field notes from the war on sex (October 10, 2019).
Chicago’s animals gone wild (August 8, 2019).
They thought he was an ‘agitator’ (August 28, 2019).
A Tale of Two Soldiers (July 24, 2019).
Think you know your Chicago underworld slang? (June 12, 2019).
Miss Teen Wordpower: The story of forgotten Chicago vaudevillian and superfast typist Birdie Reeve (May 23, 2019).
Early 20th century letters to Santa offer a sometimes grim glimpse of Christmas past (December 22, 2018).
Chicago mayor Big Bill Thompson used ‘America First’ decades before Trump (June 12, 2017).
In 1939 Nazis rallied in Chicago to make Germany great again (March 11, 2016.)
The Chicago Police Department once published a magazine featuring crime-fighting tactics—and casserole recipes (August 26, 2016).
The car was ‘king’ at the 1909 Chicago Auto Show (February 19, 2016).
The surprising Chicago origins of indoor baseball (January 30, 2019).
Early 20th century letters to Santa offer a sometimes grim glimpse of Christmas past (December 21, 2018).
The opposite of social distancing (March 17, 2020).
When Cook County enlisted the Marines to fight marijuana (December 20, 2019)
The maverick at the center of Chicago’s 1918 flu response (May 12, 2020)
Chicago at the turn of the century through the eyes of Rudolph F. Michaelis (August 5, 2020)
When Koreshan science invaded the south side (July 23, 2021)
Chicago Magazine
The Brief, Bold Life of a Forgotten Chicago Daredevil (July 16, 2019).
For Decades, These Cartoons Made CTA Workers Smile (June 24, 2019).
When Hizzoner Hired the Rajah of Swat, Rogers Hornsby (May 29, 2018).
A Story of Squatters’ Rights, a House from the World’s Fair, and a Remarkably Stubborn Man (October 4, 2017).
Academic Publications
Propaganda, Chicago Newspapers, and the Political Economy of Newsprint during the First World War, Journalism History 43 (Spring 2017).
Review of A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century by Ken Cuthbertson, Annals of Iowa 75 (Spring 2016).
Review of Crusading Iowa Journalist Verne Marshall by Jerry Harrington, Annals of Iowa 76 (Fall 2017).
Review of Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis by Joseph Gustaitis, Middle West Review 4 (Fall 2017).
Review of Minnesota 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State by Curt Brown, Annals of Iowa 77 (Fall 2018).