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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"
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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"