• "Shifting the Scene of the Crime: Sodomy and the American History of Sexual Violence," Journal of the History of Sexuality 19, 2 (forthcoming May 2010)
  • (with Shane White, Stephen Garton & Graham White), Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2010)
  • (with Shane White, Stephen Garton & Graham White) "This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s," Journal of Social History (forthcoming Spring 2011)

 

Crimes Against Children:
Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City,
1880-1960
[Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005]

Reviews

 

 

 

 


"Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race and Prostitution in the 1920s," Journal of Urban History 35, 4 (May 2009): 486-504


“Showing Its Age,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 2, 1(Winter 2009): 103-9.


""Boys, Of Course, Cannot be Raped": Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880-1955," Gender and History 18, 2 (August 2006): 389-416.
* Honourable Mention, Neil Sutherland Prize for the best article in the history of childhood and youth, Canadian Historical Association, 2008


“What’s Wrong with Online Readings? Text, Hypertext, and the History Web,” The History Teacher 39, 4 (August 2006): 441-54


"Seduction, Sexual Violence, and Marriage in New York City, 1886-1950," Law and History Review 24, 2 (Summer 2006): 331-74.


“Teaching Students to Read Online Sources,” Australasian Journal of American Studies 24, 1 (July 2005): 112-24.


"What's Law Got to Do With It? Legal Records and Sexual Histories," Journal of the History of Sexuality 14, 1/2 (January/April 2005): 161-85


"Doing History in Hypertext," Journal of the Association for History and Computing 7, 2(August 2004)


"Making Right a Girl's Ruin: Working-Class Legal Culture and Forced Marriage in New York City, 1890-1950," Journal of American Studies 36, 2 (2002): 199-230.


"Age of Consent Laws and the Making of Modern Childhood in New York City, 1886-1921," Journal of Social History 35, 4 (Summer 2002): 781-98.


"Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psycho-Sexual Development, and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s-1960s," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 56, 1 (January 2001): 3-35.


"Signs, Marks and Private Parts: Doctors, Legal Discourses and Evidence of Rape in the United States, 1823-1930," Journal of the History of Sexuality 8, 3 (January 1998): 345-88.


"Women Workers and the New Zealand Arbitration Court, 1894-1920" Labour History (Special Issue: Women, Work and the Labour Movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, ed. Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates) (November 1991): 30-41

 

(with Shane White, Stephen Garton and Graham White) "The Envelope, Please," in The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present & Future, eds James Cook, Lawrence Glickman and Michael O'Malley (University of Chicago Press, 2008), 121-52.

 

"'Production Not Reproduction': The Problem of Mental Defect in New Zealand, 1920-1935," in Unfortunate Folk: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992, eds. Barbara Brookes and Jane Thomson (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2001), 200-14.

 

Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930
*Awarded the American Historical Association's 2010 Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History

 

Digital Harlem Blog

 

American History on the World Wide Web Projects

 

 

Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern Sexuality, Journal of American History 96, 1 (June 2009): 128.

Crista DeLuzio, Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830-1930, Journal of American Studies 43 (April 2009)

"Prostitutes, Runaway Wives, Working Women, Charity Girls, Courting Couples, Spitting Women, Boastful Husbands, Pimps, and Johns," Journal of Women's History, 20, 1 (Spring 2008): 247-57 [Review Essay]

Marcy Sacks , Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City, Australasian Journal of American Studies 26, 1 (July 2007): 78-80

Web Site Review: Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line; and Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories, Journal of American History, 94, 1 (June 2007): 366.

Jennifer Trost, Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City, Journal of Social History 40, 3 (Spring 2007): 772-74.

“Don’t Box Me In,” Reviews in American History 33, 4 (2005): 539-44 [Review Essay]

Web site Review: Who Killed William Robinson – A Historical Whodunnit, Journal of American History, 91, 1 (June 2004): 349.

Angus McLaren, Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History, Journal of American History, 91, 1 (June 2004): 281-82.

"A Tale of Two Sexual Revolutions," Australasian Journal of American Studies 21, 1 (July 2002): 98-110 [Review Essay].

Melvyn Dubofsky, Hard Work: The Making of Labor History and Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South, Labour History 82 (May 2002): 181-83.

"Web Review: www.NZHistory.net.nz," New Zealand Historical Association Newsletter (December 1999-June 2000): 31-33.

Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia , ed. Diane Kirkby (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996), Law and History Review, 17, 3 (Fall 1999): 628-30

(with Kimberlee Gunning) Report on the Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, International Labor and Working Class History, 45 (Spring 1994): 139-41