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Books

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Portrait of a Citizen: Stephen Girard, Mariner, Merchant, Banker, and Philanthropist of the Early American Republic, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026
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Grolier Club Bookplates, Past & Present, ​Grolier Club of New York, August 2023
(Read one review of the book published in The Book Collector, one published in the Times Literary Supplement, and another published in The Private Library.)

​The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania, ​Penn State Press, June 2020
(Read a review of the book published in Panorama: Journal of the ​Association of Historians of American Art)
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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Minnesota History: The Quarterly of the Minnesota Historical Society, Fall 2023
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Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 2019

​Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, ​Fall 2018

The Mennonite Quarterly Review, October 2017 (journal homepage here)

Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 2016

Peer-reviewed Scholarly Essays

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Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation, August 2021

Digital Essays / Online Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects

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Ludwig Denig, emblem book, 1784. Accession no. 2020.0011. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard A. Schwartz. 2020.0011. Winterthur Museum.

​"Ludwig Denig, Cobbler of the Cosmos: Penmanship, Calligraphy, and Pietistic Spirituality in Early Lancaster, Pennsylvania," 
​The Denig Manuscript Project, Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, November 2024.

Other Scholarly Essays & Articles

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Arthur Grinnell Gordon (1854-1924), chest carved of wood salvaged from the Rousseau, 1894. 31” H x 19 ½” W x 44” D. 2018.43. New Bedford Whaling Museum.
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Vistas: A Journal of Art, History, Science, and Culture ​(New Bedford Whaling Museum) Winter 2024
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The Journal of Lancaster County's Historical Society, September 2024 
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Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding, vol. 6, Summer, 2020 (publisher website here)

The Bookplate Journal, Spring 2016

Fine Books & Collections, May 2016

Winterthur Library News, Summer 2017

Fine Books & Collections, Summer 2017
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Crossings, May 2012
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