Media Appearances
One of the great joys of being a historian is the chance to share the excitement of history with a wider audience than the academy.
Was the American Revolution a Civil War? Story of American Loyalists
History Behind News, the program for the History News Network. May 21, 2026.
James Madison & Religious Freedom
Being The Change podcast, S4 E13, James Madison University. April 30, 2026.
The Founders Didn’t Want A Gerontocracy
Revolutions in Retrospect. Released Nov. 25, 2025.
Age and our Founding Fathers
Episode 11, Cardinal News 250 Podcast with Dutchie Jessee. February 2025.
Was the Revolutionary War America’s First Civil War?
The Fabric of History Podcast for the Bill of Rights Institute. April 2022.
TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are?
Guest historian on this popular program using the power of fascinating (and good looking) people to share history with the public.
Charles Willson Peale (1795), Collection of the New York Historical Society
NPR "With Good Reason"
Our first presidents lived long lives. In this NPR segment, we can learn about how George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison hoped to live as they aged--and what aging turned out to really be like for them. Disappointments abounded, but so did satisfactions.
C-Span Lectures in American history
Age and the American Revolution,” May 2021
Ben Franklin's World
What happened to the loyalists who stayed in the United States after the War for Independence?
After the war, 60,000 loyalists and 15,000 slaves evacuated the United States. But thousands more opted to remain in the new nation. Hear me talk about my book From Revolution to Reunion and my continued thinking about the Loyalists who stayed.
DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA?: THE HISTORY OF AN OFTEN DISJOINTED UNION
Let’s Make Up: Reconciliation and its Limits