WRiting (selected)

“The Shape Of Your Head and The Shape Of Your Mind” The Atlantic

“The Feminist Origins of Eight Cups a Day,” Slate

“Sacred Ground: Picnic Point,” On Wisconsin 

“Free Love in Victorian Wisconsin: The Radical Life of Juliet Severance,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 

“A Gentleman and a Scholar,”On Wisconsin

“Scandinavians’ Strange Holiday Lutefisk Tradition,” Smithsonian

“The Salamanders that Refuse to Grow Up,” Smithsonian

“Alice in Dairyland,” Wisconsin Life

“Giving Them What They Want: The Reinhardts and Medical Quackery in Wisconsin,” with Matthew Jensen, Wisconsin Magazine of History 

“The Old Ball Game: Vintage Base Ball,” MyMidwest 

• Winner of the 2009 North American Travel Writers Association Gold for Historical Travel

“Good Morning, Homemakers,” Wisconsin Magazine of History