Native America: An Environmental History (under contract, Cambridge University Press)
Founding Massacres: Violence, Ambition & the Birth of Virginia (book in progress)
“The Seventeenth Century,” In W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., The New History of the American South (University of North Carolina Press; in preparation)
Recent Publications
“Rethinking ‘The American Paradox’: Bacon’s Rebellion, Indians, and the U.S. History
Survey.” In Susan Sleeper Smith, Nancy Shoemaker, Jean O’Brien, Juliana Barr, and
Scott Stevens, eds., Why You Can’t Teach U.S. History Without American Indians (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
“The Second Anglo-Powhatan War” (3500 words). In Matthew Gibson, ed., Encyclopedia Virginia (2014).
“Paramount Chiefdoms.” In Joseph C. Miller, ed., The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (Princeton University Press, 2014).
“Bacon’s Rebellion in Indian Country.” Journal of American History (December 2014). Winner of the Binkley-Stephenson Prize for the best article in the
JAM.
“Beyond the ‘Ecological Indian’ and the ‘Columbian Exchange’: Contemporary Writing
on Native Americans and the Environment.” Forthcoming in History Compass (2015).
“Environment,” in Karen Kupperman, ed., American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume One:
The Sixteenth Century (MTM Publishing, 2011).
“Environment,” in John Demos, ed., American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume Two:
The Seventeenth Century (MTM Publishing, 2011).
“Into the Gap: Ethnohistorians, Environmental History, and the Native South.” Native South (2011).
“Introduction,” in Voices from Colonial America: Maryland, 1634-1776, by Robin Doak (National Geographic, 2007) (historical consultant for the volume).
“Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace, 1300-1624,”
in Peter Mancall, ed., The Atlantic World and Virginia (UNC Press, 2007).
“Evangelicals and the Invention of Community in Western Maryland,” Maryland Historical Magazine 101 (Spring 2006), 26-54.