Book:
A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution (2009).

  • Winner of the James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), July 2010
  • Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best Book Prize, Spring 2010

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Selected Essays:

"Forgetting History: Antebellum American Peace Reformers and the Specter of the Revolution,” in the collection, Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation-Making in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War, edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Frances Clarke, Clare Corbould, and Michael A. McDonnell. University of Massachusetts Press, 2013, pp. 217-33.

“'A Vapour which Appears but for a Moment': Elocution for Girls during the Early American Republic,” in the collection, Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak, edited by David Gold and Catherine Hobbs. Routledge, 2013, pp. 38-59.

“Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, 'Exceptional' Native Women, and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues,” in the collection, Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment, edited by Toni Bowers and Tita Chico. New York: Palgrave, 2012, pp. 135-47.

Shivering Timbers: Sexing Up the Pirates in Early Modern Print Culture,” Common-Place, October 2009.

This essay appeared in substantially revised form as “Blood and Lust: Masculinity and Sexuality in Illustrated Print Portrayals of Early Pirates of the Caribbean” in the edited collection, New Men: Manliness in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster. New York University Press, 2011, pp. 95-115.

Fight Like a Man: Gender and Rhetoric in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Peace Movement,” American Nineteenth-Century History 10 (September 2009): 247-71.

The Indian Censures the White Man: ‘Indian Eloquence’ and American Reading Audiences in the Early Republic,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 65 (July 2008): 535-64.

The Female Cicero: Young Women’s Oratory and Gendered Public Participation in the Early American Republic,” Gender and History 19 (August 2007): 260-83.