The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century
America (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
ISBN: 0-226-00541-0

Associate Editor, The Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
ISBN-13: 9780521661669
Awarded a National Historical Publications and Records Commission subvention grant endorsement in May 2004.

Senior Associate Editor, The William F. Cody Papers. (in progress)

“Creating the Republican Child: Schoolbooks and American Nationalism,” in Children and Youth in a New Nation, ed. James Marten (New York University Press, 2009).

“The Strange Career of the Salem Witches,” OAH Magazine of History issue: “Witchcraft in History”  edited by Elizabeth Reis. Vol. 17, no. 4 (July 2003): 24-27.

“Mysteries, Memories, and Metaphors: The Salem Witchcraft Trials in the American Imagination," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (Winter, 2000).  Reprinted in: The Enduring Fascination of Salem Witchcraft , ed. John Hench (Worcester, Mass.: The American Antiquarian Society, 2003): 255-67.

“Deeds of Desperate Valor: The First Rhode Island Regiment," essay for H-Net/NEH companion website for the PBS series "Liberty!", January, 1998.
http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays.html  

Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, “Nationalism,” “Iconography,” “National Symbols,” Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005.

Encyclopedia of New England Culture, “Clambakes,” "Whaling,"  Yale University Press, 2005.

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, “Henry Ward Beecher,” “Theodore Dwight Weld,” “Wendell Phillips,” “Henry Villard,” and “John Greenleaf Whittier.” ABC-Clio, 2000.

On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape by Jared Farmer Journal of the West (forthcoming Fall 2008).

The Most Famous Man in America: A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate.  The New England Quarterly 80(September 2007): 535-38.

River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley by Kim M. Gruenwald. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History  35 (Spring 2005): 653-54..

Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763 by Stephen Brumwell.  Canadian Historical Review,  85 (September 2004): 590-91.

Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 by Richard Godbeer.  Common-place (July 2005). On line at: http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-04/reviews/adams.shtml

Holy Faith of Santa Fe, 1863-2000 by Stanford Lehmberg.  Southwest Historical Quarterly  (April 2005): 570.

Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911 by John S. Haller, Jr. for H-SHEAR/H-Net  (Society of Historians of the Early American Republic listserv), (April, 1999).

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore. The 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies, (May 1999).