“The Specter of Salem” (book talk):
            October 2008,  Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts.

“Salem Witchcraft in the American Political Imagination,” CIWAS Public Lecture Series, Cody, Wyoming, March 29, 2007.

“The ‘Old Hero' Passes: Texas receives the news of Jackson’s death,” Westerners International, Llano Estacado Chapter, Lubbock, Texas. March, 2004.

“The Strange Career of the Salem Witches,” Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, October 30, 2001.

“A Full Share of the Day’s Honors:” The First Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution, RI DAR Battle of Rhode Island Annual Commemoration, Bristol, RI, August 2001.

“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Inventing America,” National Park Service, Boston, Massachusetts, February 25, 2001.

“Deeds of Desperate Valor: New England African-American Soldiers in the American Revolution,” Strawberry Banke Museum, Black History Month Lecture Series, February 9, 1999.

Panelist, “Salem Witch Trials,” November 13, 2002 edition of “Odyssey.” Produced by WBEZ Chicago, Illinois for National Public Radio.