Research

I am very interested in cultural history and cultural memory.  How are historical events remembered, represented, depicted in high and popular culture? That is the question that most fascinates me.  My new book and my first two publications represent this interest. 

Remembering John Adams: The Second President in History, Memory and Popular Culture will be published by McFarland Press in the spring of 2023. This book was inspired by earlier research on John Adams in history and memory.  It is available for pre-order at Amazon as well as other book sellers.   

Remembering John Adams from McFarland

Remembering John Adams Amazon page

      I also published “A Past to Make Us Proud: U.S. History According to Disney” in Bowdoin Van Riper Edits Learning From Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney’s Edutainment Films. McFarland & Company, Inc.,2011.

   My first publication combined my interest in cultural memory with my on-going study of founding father John Adams.  I was happy to return to the subject of my Master's Thesis in “An Inconvenient Founding Father: Adapting John Adams for Popular Culture.” in  the collected anthology, The Theme of Cultural Adaptation in American History, Literature, and Film: Cases When the Discourse Changed . Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.