Publications

Books

The Missouri Home Guard: Protecting the Home Front during the Great War, University of Missouri Press, 2022.

Degrees of Allegiance: Harassment and Loyalty in Missouri’s World War I German-American Community, Ohio University Press, 2012.

Articles

“‘Zwischen Dallas und New York’: A West German’s Encounter with the United States Before Moving to East Germany,” Yearbook of German-American Studies 56 (2021, copyright 2023): 96-110.

“Courage, Duty, Patriotism: The Missouri Home Guard during the Great War,” Missouri Historical Review 113, no. 4 (April 2019): 240-258.

“Faith and Country: How Jews Found Unity in World War I,” Gateway 38, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 30-43.

“Heroines on the Home Front: World War I and the Council of National Defense’s Woman’s Committee, Missouri Division,” Missouri Historical Review 112 no. 3 (April 2018): 169-188.

“’Clear and Present Danger’: The Legacy of the 1917 Espionage Act in the United States,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques Vol 42 issue 2 (Summer 2016): 115-133.

“Keeping the Cause Alive: Gottlieb A. Hoehn and the Socialist Party of St. Louis,” Yearbook of German-American Studies 50 (2015): 75-104.

 “Der Staat Missouri: Friedrich Münch’s German-American Perception of and Guides to Missouri, 1859-1875,” Yearbook of German-American Studies 45 (2010): 17-31.

“’Drifting Back into Their Old Ways:’ Local Efforts to Banish the German Language from Missouri during the Great War,” Missouri Historical Review 103 (April 2009): 161-82.

“Searching for the Meaning of Loyalty: A Study of the German-American Experience during World War I in Osage County, Missouri,” Yearbook of German-American Studies 39 (2005): 77-92.

Pedagogical Publications

Instructor’s Resource Manual, America’s History, Volume 1: To 1877 and Volume 2: From 1877, by James A. Henretta et al., 8th edition, Bedford St. Martin’s Press, 2013.

Instructor’s Resource Manual, America Firsthand, Volume 1: Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction, and Volume 2: Readings from Reconstruction to the Present, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2012.

Encyclopedic Publications

“James Monroe,” “Andrew Jackson,” “Martin van Buren,” “James K. Polk,” and “Grover Cleveland,” in Presidents and Presidencies in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection edited by Jolyon Girard, ABC-Clio/Greenwood Press (October 2019), 147-182, 221-260, 261-298, 335-368, 679-718, 751-782.

“American Colonization Society,” “The American Federation of Labor,” “The Knights of Labor,”  “Land Grant Colleges and Universities,” “Lowell Female Labor Reform Association,” “The National Wildlife Federation,” and “Socialist Labor Party of America,” in Political Groups, Parties, and Organizations that Shaped America: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection, edited by Scott H. Ainsworth and Brian Harward (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2019), 31-33, 49-52, 457-455, 504-506, 690-693, 896-898.

“Selective Service Act (1917),” “World War I,” “Eugene V. Debs,” “The Panic of 1907,” and “Ellis Island,” in Reforming America: A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era, ed. Jeffrey A. Johnson (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, inc., 2017), 122-124, 160-163, 230-233, 294-296, 398-400.