Books
My research areas include Quakers, abolition, the Civil War, and libraries, archives, and museums.
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Selected Articles and Book Chapters
Journal Articles
“The Timothy O. Webster Papers and the Pearce Civil War Collection: Using Civil War Military Collections for Women’s History.” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals. 14 (Summer 2018)
“Blood-Stained Sugar: Gender, Commerce, and the British Slave-Trade Debates.” Slavery & Abolition. 35 (December 2014)
Online Articles
“‘There is Death in the Pot!’: Consumer Activism and Slave-Labor Goods,” Cornell University Press Authors’ Blogs, June 2020
“William Lloyd Garrison.” Essential Civil War Curriculum, 2014
“True Womanhood, True Manhood: Gender Ideals in the Antebellum United States.” Daily Life through History (online database), ABC-CLIO, 2013
“The Abolitionist Movement.” Essential Civil War Curriculum, 2012
“Blood-Stained Goods: The Transatlantic Boycott of Slave Labor.” The Ultimate History Project, December 2012
“A is for Abolition.” The Ultimate History Project, May 2012
Book Chapters
“Women in the World of George W. Taylor: The Public and Private Worlds of Orthodox Quaker Women.” In New Critical Studies on Quaker Women, 1800-1920: Finding New Voices. Edited by Robynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale Spencer State College: Penn State University Press. (Forthcoming)
“Quakers, Anti-Slavery, Women’s Rights, American Civil War.” In The Quakers, 1830-1937: The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity. Edited by Stephen Angell, Ben Pink Dandelion, and David Watt. State College: Penn State University Press. (Forthcoming)
“‘The Second Fallen Adam’: William Adam and Nineteenth-Century Reform.” In Currents in Transatlantic History: Encounters, Commodities, Identities. Edited by Steven Reinhardt. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2017
“Rejecting the Gain of Oppression: Quaker Abstention and the Abolitionist Cause.” In Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808. Edited by Sue Kozel and Maurice Jackson. New York: Routledge, 2015