Publications:
Wood: A Cultural History (New York: Viking, 2006)
(In Preparation) Book manuscript on the intersections of popular literary and material culture in the United States, 1820-1920.
The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 (New York: Harper and Row, 1992)
Fit for America: Health, Fitness, Sport, and American Society 1830-1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)
"Light of the Home:" An Intimate View of Women in Victorian America (New York: Pantheon, 1983)
"The Role of Research in Public Historical Agencies," The Public Historian, 5 (1983), 71-77
"Exploring Material Culture," American Quarterly, 32 (1980), 222-8
Affiliations:
Director of the Public History Program at Northeastern
Board of Overseers, Strawberry Banke Museum
Board of Corporators, Canterbury Shaker Village