Publications

• Annihilating Space: How the Nineteenth-Century Transportation Revolution Influenced American Culture (under contract to Johns Hopkins University Press)


• Co-author, with William B. McAllister, Joshua Botts, and Peter Cozzens, Toward “Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable”: A History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2015)


• Co-editor, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917-1972, Public Diplomacy (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2014)


• Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)


• Associate managing editor, South Carolina Encyclopedia, ed. Walter Edgar (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006)

• “Fulfilling ‘The President’s Duty to Communicate’: The Civil War and the Creation of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series,” in David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, eds., The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the Global Civil War (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014), pages 190-210


• “Railroads and Time Consciousness in the Antebellum South,” Enterprise and Society 9 (September 2008): 433-456


• “Desertion and Loyalty in the South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865,” Civil War History 50 (March 2004): 47-65


• “Desertion and Dissatisfaction in Greenville District, South Carolina: 1860-1865,” Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (2001): 39-50

• Introduction to a reprint edition of A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860 by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011)


• Twenty-two entries in the South Carolina Encyclopedia, including “South Carolina Railroad” (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006)


• “South Carolina,” in the Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, ed. Paul Finkelman (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005)

• “Public Historians: Histories, Communities, and Controversies,” review of Denise Meringolo, Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) and Amy Lonetree, Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native American National and Tribal Museums (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), reviewed in Reviews in American History 41 (December 2013): 680-686


• Randal L. Hall, Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (Lexington: University Press of Virginia, 2012), reviewed in Journal of American History 100 (June 2013): 224


• William G. Thomas, The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War and the Making of Modern America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), reviewed in Common-place (July 2012)


• Craig Miner, The Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825-1862 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010), reviewed in Journal of Southern History 78 (May 2012): 452-453


• Robert J. Kapsch, Historic Canals and Waterways of South Carolina (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010), reviewed in South Carolina Historical Magazine 112 (July-October 2011): 180-181


• Brian Schoen, The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), reviewed in Technology and Culture 52 (January 2011): 201-202


• Steven Hahn et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, series 3, volume 1, Land and Labor, 1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), reviewed in Journal of Southern History 76 (May 2010): 468-469


• Bruce W. Eelman, Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008), reviewed in Technology and Culture 50 (October 2009): 929-930


• Paul Paskoff, Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), reviewed in Business History Review 83 (summer 2009): 394-395


• Frank Byrne, Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006), reviewed in Civil War Book Review (spring 2008)


• W. Scott Poole, South Carolina’s Civil War: A Narrative History (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005), reviewed in South Carolina Historical Magazine 108 (April 2007): 166-167


• Richard Follett, The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820-1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005), reviewed in American Nineteenth Century History 8 (March 2007): 113-115


• John C. Inscoe, ed., Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), reviewed in Ohio Valley History 6 (summer 2006): 71-72


• Sean Patrick Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), reviewed in H-Southern-Industry (August 2006)


• Robert Angevine, The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-century America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), reviewed in Enterprise and Society 7 (March 2006): 210-212


• Maury Klein, A History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (2d ed., Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003), reviewed in H-Tennessee (March 2005)


• Bessie Martin, A Rich Man’s War, A Poor Man’s Fight: Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army (1932; reprint, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003), reviewed in H-CivWar (August 2003)

• Co-author, with Constance B. Schulz, Page Putnam Miller, and Kevin M. Allen) of Careers for Students of History, published by the National Council on Public History and the American Historical Association (2002)

• “Lincoln’s P.R. Coup,” New York Times: Disunion (December 1, 2011)