Professor
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Yale University
Research Interests
America Since 1607
- 19th Century
- urban
- cultural
Representative Publications
With Rebecca McLennan, Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century, McGraw-Hill, 2015.
The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York, Columbia University Press, 1998.