Other Writing

“Remembering My Hijacking”
New Yorker.com
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“Why Didn’t I Want My Beloved Father to Read My Memoir?”
Literary Hub
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“History Unclassified: As If I Wasn’t There: Writing from a Child’s Memory”American Historical Review
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“Martha Hodes Talks My Hijacking
History News Network
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“Living on a Jet Plane”
Interview with Michael Young, Diwan: Middle East Insights From Carnegie
Malcoln H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
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“House Divided”
Wall Street Journal
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“Public Thinker: David Blight on Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory”
Interview with David Blight
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“Why some white Americans see racial equality as oppression”
Washington Post, Made by History
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“Five Best: On Catastrophe and Mourning”
Wall Street Journal
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“What Lincoln Left Behind”
New York Times guest opinion
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“A nation united in mourning Lincoln? Think again”
Boston Globe interview
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“How Abraham Lincoln Said That Black Lives Matter”
Los Angeles Times guest opinion
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“‘They Have Killed Our Good President”: Remembering the Horror of the Lincoln Assasination”
Salon.com
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“Forgetting Abraham Lincoln”
JSTOR Daily
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“A House Divided by Grief”
Harvard Gazette interview
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“Lincoln’s Assassination Stuns the Nation”
Humanities Magazine
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“Lincoln’s Funeral was a Letdown”
Wonders and Marvels blog
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“Cover Story: Mourning Lincoln”
Campaign for the American Reader blog
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Page 99 Test
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” –Ford Madox Ford
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“One Family’s Roots: A Nation’s History”
New York Times, Oct. 8, 2009
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“Tales from the Vault: A House in Vermont, A Caribbean Beach—Beckoned by Landscapes Beyond the Archives”
Common Place.org
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“Experimental History in the Classroom: Is Anybody Interested?”
Perspectives on History
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