Interim Director of Archives and Public History Program, New York University
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Research Interests
History education; digital media; public history; African-American social and cultural history
Teaching
Introduction to Public History
Selected Print and Multimedia Publications
The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
Executive Producer, HERB: Social History for Every Classroom (herb.ashp.cuny.edu)
Supervising Editor, Who Built America: Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, 3rd edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007)
Co-editor, “The Uses of the Folk” thematic issue, Radical History Review 84 (Fall 2002).
Entries on Porgy and Porgy and Bess in Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance(Routledge, 2004).
Review of Seneca Village (http://projects.ilt.columbia.edu/seneca/start.html) in Journal of Multimedia History.
Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/) in Journal of American History 88 (December 2001).
With Karl Hagstrom Miller and John Spencer, The Hard Hat Riots of 1970
At American Social History Project:
The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum American Life and Culture
History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web
The September 11 Digital Archive
HERB: Social History for Every Classroom