ACADEMIC
History is my jam.
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)