Scholarly Publications
- Review of Peter N. Stearns, Shame: A Brief History, American Historical Review 124:2 (April 2019): 624-625.
- Review of Robert Chiles, The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal, New England Quarterly 92:1 (March 2019): 162-165.
- “Transformation in the Tabernacle: Billy Sunday’s Converts and Emotional Experience in the Progressive Era.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14:3 (July 2015): 367-385.
- “Empowering Passivity: Women Spiritualists, Houdini, and the 1926 Fortune Telling Hearing.” Journal of Social History 48:2 (Winter 2014): 341-362.
- “Warrior of Science: Raphael Zon and the Origins of Forest Experiment Stations,” Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2010, 4-12.
- “Roots of Research: Raphael Zon and the Origins of Forest Experiment Stations,” in Olberding, Susan D., and Margaret M. Moore, eds., Fort Valley Experimental Forest: A Century of Research 1908-2008 (Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2008), 363-370.
Essays, Op-Eds, and Blog Posts
- “Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg Are Calling for ‘Unity.’ That Could Be Bad,” Washington Post, December 5, 2019
- “Why Democrats are Thinking about Electability All Wrong,” Washington Post, May 14, 2019
- “The Myth of the Angry Mob,” Washington Post, October 12, 2018
- “Why Quitting Facebook is a Bad Idea,” Washington Post, March 28, 2018
- “A Utah Tale of Two Monuments,” Salt Lake Tribune, August 27, 2017
- “Was Teddy Roosevelt a Good Public Speaker?” Fifteen Eighty-Four, August 10, 2017
- “President Trump’s Rallies Are About Boosting His Ego, Not His Agenda,” Washington Post, July 25, 2017
- “What Kind of Feminism Is This?” History News Network, June 22, 2017
- “What Emotional Politics More Than a Century Ago Says about Winning U.S. Elections Today,” Scholars Strategy Network Key Findings Brief, May 2017
- “The Hubris of the Intellectual Turncoat,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, April 29, 2017
- “Emotional Experience as a Site of Agency,” History of Emotions Blog, March 28, 2017
- “Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma,” Black Perspectives, March 2, 2017
- “The Antidemocratic Origins of Fake News,” We’re History, February 27, 2017
- “Emotional Politics Won the 2016 Election,” HippoReads, January 18, 2017
- “James Rush and the Invention of Personal Magnetism,” The Junto, January 16, 2017
- “What’s Wrong with the Way We Have Been Defending the Humanities,” History News Network, January 2, 2017
- “Herbert Croly, Unleavened Bread, and Progressivism in the Age of Charisma,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, December 21, 2016
- “Emotion and Fantasy: Marcus Garvey and a Blueprint for Modern Protest Movements,” Nursing Clio, December 15, 2016
- “Charisma and the Sacralization of American Politics, 1870-1940,” Religion in American History, December 9, 2016
- “Experiencing Billy Sunday,” Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, November 5, 2016
- “Trump, the GOP, and the Bloody Shirt,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, October 9, 2016
- “Is America in the Midst of a Political Realignment?” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, July 6, 2016
- “Beyond the Agency Debate,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, May 11, 2016
- “Dear Mitch McConnell: It’s Time to End the Filibuster,” History News Network, December 7, 2014
- “Obama’s Attempt at Bipartisanship Doesn’t Work,” History News Service, August 10, 2010, published in San Francisco Chronicle
- “Attacks on Sotomayor Ignore Court’s History and Makeup,” History News Service, May 29, 2009, published in Herald-Sun (Durham, NC)
- “Why Al — and Many Others — Choose Not to Run,” History News Service, November 11, 2007, published in Chicago Sun-Times and three other papers
- “France Views America: Friend, Rival, or Both?” History News Service, May 1, 2007, published in Seattle Times, Taiwan Daily News, and four other papers
Media Mentions and Interviews
- “États-Unis: Joe Biden, trop centriste pour son époque?” Le Soir, May 30, 2019
- “Golden Spike Day: The Sesquicentennial of a Transportation Marvel that Unified the Nation,” St. George News, May 5, 2019
- “Det Største Spektakel. Nogensinde. Overhovedet. Fire Iagttagelser fra 16 vælgermøder i Trumps USA,” Dagbladet Information, November 3, 2018
- “A Couple of GoFundMe Accounts Don’t Prove Christine Blasey Ford Is In This For the Money,” Chicago Tribune, October 4, 2018
- “Trump Says It’s a ‘Scary Time For Young Men.’ That’s Not True,” HelloGiggles, October 3, 2018
- “Inside the Rally,” The Takeaway — National Public Radio, August 6, 2018
- “Professors Young, Van Der Merwe Prefer Teaching at DSU,” Dixie Sun News, February 23, 2018
- Happenings Q&A, WLIP Radio (Kenosha, WI), February 6, 2018
- “The Sickening Danger of Home-Schooling,” The Week, January 18, 2018
- “Oprah Winfrey is the Most Charismatic Person in America — and Yes, She Really Could Be President,” Newsweek, January 12, 2018
- “Oprah podría ganar a Trump: para los demócratas, eso implicaría entregarse al lado oscuro,” Magnet — Xataka, January 10, 2018
- “Oprah’s Golden Globes Speech Sparks Speculation about Presidential Bid,” PM with Linda Mottram — Australian Broadcasting Corporation, January 10, 2018
- “A ‘Historian of Charisma’ Explains Why Oprah Could Be President,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 9, 2018
- “Oprah 2020? Why the Political Appeal of Celebrities Endures,” Christian Science Monitor, January 9, 2018
- “Pussygate Politics: How the Trump Tape Changed the Face of Politics Forever,” The Spectrum, October 6, 2017
- “Dixie Forum: Charismatic Leadership in Politics; Film Screening,” St. George News, February 11, 2017
- “Strung Out Through Time: 250-Year-Old Violin to Star at ISU Recital,” Bloomington Pantagraph, January 17, 2015
Podcast Interviews
- Human Extinction: The Fight of Our Lives (student project), April 27, 2019
- TIPS (Topics, Issues, Positions Show), September 4, 2018 (additional appearances: February 8, 2019; March 29, 2019)
- The Nostalgia Trap, February 27, 2018
- American History Too, August 28, 2017
- History Author Show, August 14, 2017
- No Jargon (Scholars Strategy Network), June 27, 2017
- Professor Buzzkill, June 22, 2017 (additional appearances: July 19, 2017)
- The So What? Question, May 10, 2017
- New Books Network, May 4, 2017
- History Personified, April 21, 2017
- Common Ground: The Hauenstein Center Podcast, March 2, 2017
- The Past Cannot Die, January 31, 2017
Other Media
- The History Freebooter, April 25, 2019 (Portuguese version)
- Reddit AMA on The Age of Charisma, January 23, 2017
- The Author’s Corner with John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home, January 12, 2017
