Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, Annual Meeting, “Benedict Arnold and the Limits of Collective Memory, Philadelphia, PA, July 2008.

American Historical Association, Annual Meeting,  Roundtable on Graduate Education in History, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2006.

Newberry Library (Chicago), Early American History and Culture Seminar, “The Cultural Work of Salem Witchcraft,” February 2005.

Western Social Science Association, Annual Meeting, “Inventing Americans: The cultural work of the antebellum school history,” Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2003.

Southwestern Social Science Association, Annual Meeting, “ ‘Mourning in the Land’: News of Jackson’s Death Reaches the West,” San Antonio, Texas,  April 2003.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, “The Salem Witchcraft Trials from Lived Experience to Cultural Memory,” University of Glasgow (Scotland), July 2001.

American Antiquarian Society, Colloquium, “Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame: The Cultural Work of Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks, February 2001.

John Nicholas Brown Center, American Seminar, “They began by burning witches and they will end by burning us!: Puritans, Witches, and Southern Rhetoric during the Sectional Crisis,” Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2000.

American Antiquarian Society, Annual Meeting, “Mysteries, Memories, and Metaphors: The Salem Witchcraft Trials in the American Imagination,” Worcester, Massachusetts, October 2000.

New England Historical Association, “The Strange Career of the Salem Witches,”  Boston, Massachusetts, October 1999.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting, "Building Careers and Cohorts: Graduate Students and Technology," Washington, D.C., January 1999.

Boston Athenaeum, “National Identity and the Problem of ‘Salem,” 1999.

New England Popular Culture Association, "Patriot's Day and Middle Class Culture, 1890-1910," Boston, Massachusetts, November, 1998.

Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, "Strategies of Survival: The Value of Previous Work Experience in Graduate Education," Indianapolis, Indiana, April, 1998.

Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, “ ‘The people rule here in medicine as well as government:’ Medicine, Markets and Middle Class Formation in 1793 Philadelphia," Nashville, Tennessee, July, 1996.

Western Social Science Association, “Philadelphia Physicians and the Search for Professional Order in the Post-Revolutionary Era,” 38th Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, April 1996.

Western Social Science Association, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2005.
(Chair) “Gender and Gentility”
(Chair)  “Contested Communities in the American West”

West Texas Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Alpine, Texas, April, 2005.
            (Commentator/Chair) “Imagery in West Texas: Myth or Reality,”

Phi Alpha Theta, West Texas Region Student Conference,  Lubbock, Texas, Feb. 2004, Panel (Commentator/Chair) “Patriotism and Prose in the Old Southwest.”