I am a historian of early America, with particular interests in the American Revolution and early republic, social reform movements, historical memory, slavery and freedom, and colonialism and empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. At Reed College, my teaching in the history department extends from the colonial period through Reconstruction, and I am also involved in the college’s team-taught first-year course, Humanities 110. In 2011-2012, I will be on leave from Reed as an MHS-NEH Long-Term Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society. I’ve recently published a book on abolitionism and historical memory, and I am currently researching a new project on pacifism in the nineteenth-century United States. In addition, I have a subsidiary obsession with historical maps.