BOOKS


Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader. New York: Atria, 2006 hardcover, 2007 paperback

The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today. Berkeley: University of California, 2009 (co-authored with Kevin Bales)

ARTICLES IN PRINT


Smithsonian - 6/2007; "Captain Gordon's Infamy"

New York Archives - summer 2009; "'These Pimps of Piracy': New York City and the Slave Trade"

Civil War Times - 4/2009; "Last Raid of a Rebel Pirate"

Civil War Times - 8/2009; "Hanging Captain Gordon"

America's Civil War * - 5/2009; "Murder with a Vengeance: The Legend Behind the Lincoln Assassination"

America's Civil War - 7/2009; "The Great Emancipator's Mass Execution"

America's Civil War - 9/2009; "'Old Blue Light' Attends a Hanging"

America's Civil War - 11/2009; "'Bitter Bierce' and the Macabre Side of War"

America's Civil War - 11/2009; "Fury in Vermont: The St. Albans Raid"

America's Civil War - 1/2010; "Big John Baylor Takes New Mexico for the Confederacy!"

Military History - 10-11/2009; "To the Brink in Cuba, 1873: The Virginius Affair"

True West - 9/2007; "A Race to End All Races"

American Cowboy - 8-9/2009; "The Art and Chaos of Gunfights"

Portland - summer 2009; "These Pimps of Piracy"

Maryland Life - 12/2009; "Baltimore's Princess: The Saga of Betsy Patterson Bonaparte"

Chicago Front Desk - 8/2009; "'Around we Go!' The History of Chicago's Iconic Ferris Wheel"

* featured columnist

ARTICLES SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE


America's Civil War - 3/2010; "One Man's Terrorist"

America's Civil War - 3/2010; "O, Shenandoah, We Long to Sink You!"

America's Civil War - 5/2010; "Sing a Song of War"

Military History - spring 2010; "The Man Who Would Be King: William Walker and the Invasion of Nicaragua"

Wild West - spring 2011; "'A He-Man with Plenty of Guts!' Nate Champion's Last Stand"

Portland - 5/2010; "Confederates Invade Maine! The Rebel Raid on Portland"