History For the Web

During more than a decade working with About.com I wrote a steady stream of articles, blog posts, and newsletters. Creating and scaling a website was a great experience, and the best part was being able to conduct extensive research while writing about history. When I came aboard, the company was part of the New York Times Company. After a sale followed by a merger, many of my articles now reside on the ThoughtCo vertical of People.com.

Here is an assortment of published articles from those years:

• The Pentagon Papers

• Andrew Jackson’s Big Block of Cheese

• A History of Camels in the US Army

• The Resolute Desk

• Lincoln’s Traveling Funeral

• History of Camp David

• New England’s Ice King

• How the Railroads Delivered Time Zones

• The Christiana Riot

• The Rosenberg Espionage Case

• The History of HUAC

• The Yom Kippur War

• Apollo 8 Brought 1968 to a Hopeful End

• The Teapot Dome Scandal

• The Negro Motorist Green Book

• FDR’s Fireside Chats

• Thomas Nast vs. Boss Tweed

• Was Mary Todd Lincoln Mentally Ill?

• The Luddites

• Dorothy Day

• Joan Didion

• Margaret Fuller

• Gary Snyder

• Woody Guthrie

• Walter Cronkite

• The Vietnam War Protest Movement

• The Pro-Slavery Gag Rule in Congress

• The Abolitionist Pamphlet Campaign

• Disaster on the Brooklyn Bridge

• History of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade

• The German American Bund

• Father Coughlin

• Coxey’s Army

• Frances Perkins

• Ida B. Wells

• Huey Newton

• Stokely Carmichael

• H.L. Mencken

• Lenny Bruce

• The Lynching By Fire of Henry Smith