Media Appearances
One of the great joys of being a historian is the chance to share the excitement of history with a wider audience than the academy.
TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are?
Guest historian on this popular program using the power of fascinating (and good looking) people to share history with the public.
Charles Willson Peale (1795), Collection of the New York Historical Society
NPR "With Good Reason"
Our first presidents lived long lives. In this NPR segment, we can learn about how George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison hoped to live as they aged--and what aging turned out to really be like for them. Disappointments abounded, but so did satisfactions.
C-Span Lectures in American history
Age and the American Revolution,” May 2021
Ben Franklin's World
What happened to the loyalists who stayed in the United States after the War for Independence?
After the war, 60,000 loyalists and 15,000 slaves evacuated the United States. But thousands more opted to remain in the new nation. Hear me talk about my book From Revolution to Reunion and my continued thinking about the Loyalists who stayed.
DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA?: THE HISTORY OF AN OFTEN DISJOINTED UNION
Let’s Make Up: Reconciliation and its Limits