REFEREED ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, and ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
“Things Seen and Heard: Regional Rootedness and Natural Mystery in Sigurd F. Olson’s Northwestern United States.” In The Northern Midwest and the US-Canadian Borderlands: Essays on a Lost Region, edited by Jon Lauck. Michigan State University Press, 2020. (Forthcoming.)
“The Chicago Riot of 1919.” ABC Clio Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnicty in America. (Forthcoming.)
“The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.” ABC Clio Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnicity in America. (Forthcoming.)
“Ike’s Constitutional Venturing: The Institutionalization of the CIA, Covert Action, and American Interventionism.” Grand Valley Journal of History, November 23, 2018.
REFEREED BOOK REVIEWS
“Book Review: Less by Andrew Sean Greer.” Wreck Park, issue 0.5, fall 2019.
“The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 19, Spring 2019, 62-64.
“‘Suffering Beyond Suffering’: Tommy Orange’s There There.” St. John’s University Humanities Review Vol. 16.1, Spring 2019.
“Hyping Social Infrastructure: A Review of Eric Klinenberg’s Palaces for the People.” The Metropole, January 10, 2019.
“Art Can Change the World: A Review of Nato Thompson’s Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century.” Community Change Vol. 2, Fall 2018.
“Book Review: Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.” Liberated Arts: A Journal for Undergraduate Research Vol. 4, issue 1, Spring 2018.
BOOK REVIEWS
“Making a Home Among Monsters and Martians.” The University Bookman, February 23, 2020.
“Five Books to Read Before Talking about the Midwest this Election Season.” America’s Future Foundation, February 7, 2020.
“Musket Before the Ax: Howells and Ohio.” The University Bookman, November 24, 2019.
“An Elegy for Place and Time.” The University Bookman, September 1, 2019.
“A Long Line of Mugshots: On Fox Butterfield’s “In my Father’s House”Bruggeman, Jacob.” Cleveland Review of Books, July 5, 2019.
“Five Classics You Should Have Read but Probably Haven’t Yet.” America’s Future Foundation, July 2, 2019.
“The Doctor’s Mask, Removed.” The University Bookman, March 17, 2019.
“An All-Encompassing Politics for a New World Altogether: On Jedediah Purdy’s ‘After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene.’” Cleveland Review of Books, January 25, 2019.
“On the Run from the Unequal City — and Academic Stardom.” Tropics of Meta, January 9, 2019.
“Surviving the Robot-Barons.” The University Bookman, November 25, 2018.
“Tipping the State’s Sacred Cows.” The University Bookman, August 5, 2018.
“Prophets of Paradise?” The University Bookman, July 15, 2018.
“Have We Misjudged Machiavelli?” The Imaginative Conservative, June 28, 2018.
“Book Review: Ghetto and Place.” Journeys Into the Past: An Online Journal of Miami University’s History Department, September 8, 2017.
“A New History of the Russian Revolution.” Journeys Into the Past: An Online Journal of Miami University’s History Department, July 6, 2017.
“Heroism Translates Ideals Into Action.” FEE Online, June 14, 2017.
—Takeout.
FILM REVIEWS
“The Shape of Disagreement.” The Miami Student, May 8, 2018.
ESSAYS
“The Brutal and Beautiful Art of Education.” The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, February 28, 2020.
—Featured in “Can a Home-Schooled Fundamentalist Cope with College?” National Review.
“Why Students Should Still Pick a History Major.” The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, November 22, 2019.
“It’s Time to Chat With the Silent Generation.” The American Conservative, June 17, 2019.
—”It’s Time to Chat With the Silent Generation.” Intellectual Takeout, June 20, 2019.
“Summers at White Birch Lodge.” BELT magazine, April 1, 2019.
“Personal Essay: The Land of Cities and Small Towns.” The New Chicagoan, January 21, 2019.
“The First Church of American Cinema.” The University Bookman, October 14, 2018.
“Bionic Wings.” Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas, March 21, 2018.
“On Gratitude.” The New Herald, February 25, 2018.
“Elsewhere and Back Again.” Journeys Into the Past: An Online Journal of Miami University’s History Department, September 8, 2017.
COLUMNS
“Opinion: Frozen lakes are friends not foes.” The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 24, 2020.
“Opinion: US-Iranian tensions hitting close to home.” The Cincinnati Enquirer, January 12, 2019.
“Making the Case for Midwestern Startups.” RealClearPublicAffairs, November 29, 2019.
“Behind the Attacks.” The Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2019.
“Opinion: Ban won’t stop young people from vaping.” The Cincinnati Enquirer, September 30, 2019.
“Opinion: Investing in railways helps fix roads.” The Detroit News, September 28, 2019.
“Opinion: Rep. Keller’s no stranger to controversy – it’s her brand.” The Cincinnati Enquirer, August 7, 2019.
“For male survivors of sexual assault — like me — #MeToo can help change culture of silence.” USA TODAY, July 26, 2019.
—The Des Moines Register, Florida Today, Flipboard, Mims Florida.
“Paying ransomware pirates only encourages more criminal hackers.” USA TODAY, July 25, 2019.
“Opinion: Infrastructure is the key to 2020 presidential election.” The Detroit News, July 6, 2019.
“Opinion: Conventional candidates won’t beat Mitch McConnell. But a celebrity candidate just might.” The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 21, 2019.
“A silver lining of the college admissions scandal.” The Washington Examiner, April 10, 2019.
“How 3D Printing Could Fix the Housing Crisis.” RealClearPolicy, March 22, 2019.
“Column: ‘Brain drain’ might leave local government jobs unfilled.” The Columbus Dispatch, February 15, 2019.
“To Make Housing Affordable, Act Locally.” Front Porch Republic, October 19, 2018.
“Personhood Before Politics.” The New Herald, September 9, 2018.
“A Flexible Disposition.” Front Porch Republic, July 17, 2018.
“Billy Joel and the Gun Debate.” The New Herald, July 11, 2018.
“Kiss Me In Person, Please: Putting Place Back Into Love.” The New Herald, May 16, 2018.
“The Art of Advertising.” The American Enterprise Institute, May 2018.
“Can Music Continue Our Emotional Education?” The Miami Student, March 29, 2018.
“Large-Scale Political Change Starts with Small-Scale Communities.” The Miami Student, March 13, 2018.
“To Educate or Expel?” The New Herald, April 4, 2018.
“Millennial Malaise: Why Young People Are Turning to Socialism.” The American Enterprise Institute, January, 2018.
“Relentless Rationalists: Creating Hell for Humanity.” The Imaginative Conservative, September 28, 2018.
“A Century of Cities.” Journeys Into the Past: An Online Journal of Miami University’s History Department, September 8, 2017.
“A More Affectionate America.” The New Herald, September 5, 2017.
“Relentless Rationalism.” The Imaginative Conservative, September 1, 2017.
“The Cardinal Virtues of Our Time.” The American Enterprise Institute, August, 2017.
“History in These Times.” Journeys Into the Past: An Online Journal of Miami University’s History Department, July 6, 2017.
“Get to Know the 2017 History Scholars: Jacob Bruggeman.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, June 21, 2017.
“A Shattered Empire: Reflections on Revolution and Shards of Human Experience.” The New Contemporary: Notes from the Havighurst Center, April 27, 2017.
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