Courses
Civil War & Reconstruction; The New Republic: The United States, 1776-1848; The Theory and Practice of Justice: The American Historical Experience; The American Trauma: Representing the Civil War in Art, Literature and Politics; The Age of Lincoln; The Problem of New World Freedom: The Age of Democratic Revolution in the United States and the Americas

Research Interests
Nineteenth-century U.S. history and American political culture

Selected Publications:

The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1990)

"The Volcano Under the City: Draft Rioting in New York City and State, 1863," in Harold Holzer, ed., State of the Union: New York and the Civil War (Fordham University Press, 2002)

"Abraham Lincoln's Body and Body Politic: Two Puzzles in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political Language and Culture," in Harold Holzer and John Y. Simon, eds., The Lincoln Forum: Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln (Fordham University Press, 2002)

"Securing Freedom: The Challenges of Black Life in Civil War New York," in Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris, eds., Slavery in New York (The New Press, 2005)

"Political Evil and the Body Politic in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America," in Steven Mintz & John Stauffer, eds., The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), 231-59.

Stripes and Scars: How Americans Came to Sacrifice Self for Nation in the Civil War (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)