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ACADEMIC
History is my jam.
Academic: Work
11 Things You Didn't Know About Al Capone
Blog for WereHistory.org
The Fire That Gave Birth to the Second City
Blog for WereHistory.org
December 5, 1933: The End of Prohibition
Blog for WereHistory.org
From Puritan to Patriot:
John Adams & William Billings' "Chester"
Blog for WereHistory.org
The Second Amendment
& the 1879 Illinois Militia Law
Blog for WereHistory.org

"We know neither Catholics, nor Protestants, nor Free-Thinkers here”: Ethnicity, Religion, and the Chicago Public Schools, 1837-1894
in Colin Barr and Hilary Carey (eds.),
Religion in Greater Ireland (Mc-Gill-Queen’s University Press, 2015).

Ducking for Cover: Chicago’s Irish Nationalists
in the Haymarket Era

America’s Role in the 1916 Easter Rising
Sunday Business Post (Dublin, Ireland), February 28, 2016.
Immigrants, Nativists,
and the Making of Chicago, 1835-1893
Doctoral Dissertation
Boston College
(link downloads dissertation)
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