Selected Publications:
Current
Book Projects:
Death in the New World:
Cross-Cultural
Encounters, 1492-1800 (under contract with
University of Pennsylvania Press, manuscript completed)
Indian-European Encounters in North
America: The Huron Feast of the Dead, 1636 (under
contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, estimated completion 2010)
Books:
The Atlantic in Global History,
1500-2000, co-edited with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (Upper
Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2007)
Pious Persuasions: Laity and
Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England (Baltimore and
London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Articles
and Chapters:
“Practice and Piety in North America to 1790,” in The Cambridge History of Religion in
America, ed. Stephen Stein (in progress)
“Reassessing the ‘Sankofa Symbol’ in New York’s African Burial Ground”
(submitted to the William and Mary
Quarterly, August 2008)
“Beyond the Line: Nations, Oceans, Hemispheres,” in The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000,
edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Erik R. Seeman (Upper
Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2007), xxiii-xxviii
“Jews in the Early Modern Atlantic: Crossing Boundaries, Keeping
Faith,” in The Atlantic in Global
History, 1500-2000, edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
and Erik R. Seeman (Upper Saddle River, N.J.:
Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2007), 39-59
“Desire and Distrust: The Paradox of Women at Old Fort Niagara,” New York History, vol. 85 (Winter
2004): 5-21 (co-authored with Elizabeth S. Peña)
“Reading Indians’ Deathbed Scenes: Ethnohistorical and
Representational Approaches,” Journal
of American History, vol. 88 (June 2001): 17-47
“‘It Is Better To Marry Than To Burn’: Anglo-American
Attitudes Toward Celibacy, 1600-1800,” Journal of Family History, vol. 24
(October 1999): 397-419
“‘Justise Must Take Plase’: Three African Americans Speak of
Religion in Eighteenth-Century New England,” William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 56
(April 1999): 395-416
“Lay Conversion Narratives: Investigating Ministerial
Intervention,” New England Quarterly,
vol. 71 (December 1998): 629-34
“Sarah Prentice and the Immortalists: Sexuality, Piety, and the
Body in Eighteenth-Century New England,” in Sex and Sexuality in Early America,
edited by Merril D. Smith (New York: New York University Press,
1998): 116-31
Electronic
Publications:
"Spooky Streets: Spirits of the Past Haunt Ghost Tours," Common-Place:
The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, vol. 3, no. 1
(October
2002). Go
to article
Review of Laurie Winn Carlson, A Fever in Salem: A New
Interpretation
of the New England Witch Trials. On H-AmRel, H-Net discussion
list on American religion, September 1999. Go
to review
Internet companion to "'Justise Must Take Plase'" in William and
Mary Quarterly, including further explanation of sources, on the
Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture's web site, April 1999.
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