Harmar’s Defeat Reconsidered
Old Fort News: Volume 87 – Number 2 – 2024
The History Center is home to the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society, including its museum and collections. When formed in 1921, the society had few assets, consisting of some historical relics that had been preserved by the Mary Penrose Wayne Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Harmar’s Defeat Reconsidered
Conference: The History Center, Fort Wayne Indiana
Date: May 2024
Review of Rob Harper, Unsettling the West
Journal: Middle West Review
Volume: 7:1 (November 2020) Pages 192-95
The Technique of Terror
Conference: Contemporary American literature, Institute of Italian/American Studies in Rome
Date: November 2020
An Appetite for Reality
Conference: Honors Convocation, At Emmitsburg, Maryland
Date: April 2020
The Long Run Massacre and the History of Early Louisville
Lecture: presented at The Filson Historical Society, Louisville
Date: October 10, 2019
James Smith’s Account: Re-thinking the Significance of the Captivity Narrative
Date: May 26, 2019
The Real Thing: Authenticity in Frank Bergon’s Fiction
Date: October 2, 2018
Homage to Robert Stone
Date: June 12, 2018
Thomas Berger’s Comedy of One-upmanship
Date: April 17, 2018
American Democracy on Trial: The Election of Donald Trump—an Overview
Date: June 8, 2017
Human, All Too Human: Thomas Berger’s Crazy in Berlin
Web: Journal of American Studies
Date: May 2, 2017
Ariadne in Kentucky: Erotic Power and Mythic Resonance in William Heath’s neo-noir novel Devil Dancer
Conference: International Academy of Law and Mental Health Conference, At Prague, Session: Women, Madness, and Creation
Date: July, 2017
Writing History and Historical Fiction
Symposium: The Power of Filmmaking and Political Storytelling, Catalonia’s National Day, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Date: September 11, 2016
“The forgotten art of gayety”: The Puritans and Merry Old England
Web: Hawthorne in Salem
Date: January 19, 2016
Hawthorne, Milton, Shakesapeare and the Art of Allegory
Date: November 21, 2015
“The Morgan Rhys Diary and the Treaty of Greenville”
Journal: Northwest Ohio History
Volume: 80, No. 2 (Spring 2013): 148-164
Reinhart in Love: Thomas Berger’s Comedy of One-upmanship
Journal: The Texas Review
Volume: 33:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2012) Pages 92-102
Merry Old England and Hawthorne’s “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”
Journal: Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
Volume: 33:1 (Spring 2011) Pages: 41-71
Re-evaluating “The Fort-Wayne Manuscript”: William Wells and the Manners and Customs of the Miami Nation
Journal: Indiana Magazine of History
Volume: 106:2 (January 2010) Pages: 158-188
“The Dream of Undying Fame: Hawthorne’s Fanshawe”
Conference: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, at Bowdoin College
Date: June 2008
Thomas Morton: From Merry Old England to New England
Journal: Journal of American Studies
Volume: 41:01 (March 2007) Pages: 135-168
“This Little Light of Mine”: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement and the Sixties
Date: January 2007
The Power of Passion: Hawthorne’s Tales of Thwarted Desire
Journal: The Cortland Review
Issue: 3 (May 1998)
“The Irreverent Imagination: Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter”
Conference: American Studies Lecture Series
Date: September 1995
“Melville and Marquesan Eroticism”
Journal: The Massachusetts Review
Volume: (Spring 1987) Pages: 43-65
Twain Tears and Flapdoodle: Sentimentality in Huckleberry Finn
Journal: The South Carolina Review
Volume: 19: 1 (Fall 1986) Pages: 60-79
I, Stingo, The Problem of Egotism in Sophie’s Choice
Journal: The Southern review
Volume: 20:3 (Summer 1984) Pages: 528-545
“Primitive Survivals and Second Skins: John Hawkes’s Second Skin”
Date: April 1982
An Interview with William Gass
Journal: Hudson River Anthology
Volume: Vol. VIII (April 1979) Pages: 7-14
Melville’s Search for the Primitive
Journal: Dialectical Anthropology
Volume: 3:4 (January 1978) Pages: 315-330
Paranoias and Parabolas
Journal: Amanuensis
Volume: (Spring 1973) Pages: 38-41