Recent Posts

The Confederate Flag in the Capitol and the Future of American Expression
Recent Presentation on Art Censorship and Social Media at the York Festival of Ideas
Just published: “The Influence of Art Censorship on New York Collectors in the Gilded Age”
New article on John Haberle’s ‘A Bachelor’s Drawer’ in the Metropolitan Museum Journal
My Fulbright Lecture at the Benjamin Franklin House is Online. What would BF think about Facebook?
Praise in the American Historical Review
Winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
Appreciative Review in the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
First Amendment Salon with Nadine Strossen at Ballard Spahr LLC is Now Live
Mary Campbell reviews Lust on Trial in Panorama
The Past Present and Future of American Free Speech, at FIT
“Richly detailed, deeply researched and lavishly illustrated.” Immoral Rubber: The Times Literary Supplement Review
Interview at Notches: (re) marks on the History of Sexuality
“An amazing feat of pop-cultural scholarship” The Los Angeles Review of Books
Praise at the Gotham Center for New York City History for “provocative, cutting-edge work.”
How Comstock Changed Law – Podcast with Lee Rawles for the American Bar Association
“Posterity Applies a Disinfectant” Another Smart Take on Lust on Trial @ Inside Higher Ed
“Portrait of a Puritanical Knucklehead” Review @ Inside Higher Ed
So to Speak PODCAST: A great conversation with Nico Perrino
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