“”The mob begin to think and reason’: Recent Trends in the Studies of American Popular Disorder, 1700-1850,” Maryland Historian, 12 (Spring 1981), 25-36.
"The Baltimore Riots of 1812 and the Breakdown of the Anglo-American Mob Tradition," Journal of Social History, 13 (Summer 1980), 547-564.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
“American Revolution,” Revolutionary Movements in World History From 1750 to the Present James V. DeFronzo, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2006)
“Riots,”Encyclopedia of New York State, Peter Eisenstadt, et al. eds.(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005)
“North America,” Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Alan Charles Kors, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
“The American Revolution,” Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Alan Charles Kors, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
“The Early Republic: An Introduction,” Magazine of History, 14 (Winter 2000), 3-6
“The Early Republic,” guest editor, Magazine of History, 14 (Winter 2000)
“Crowds and Riots,” American Cities and Suburbs: An Encyclopedia, Neil Larry Shumsky, ed. New York: ABC-CLIO, 2000)
“Urban Riots,” Oxford Companion to American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
“Irish Americans,” Encyclopedia of Violence, Ronald Gottesman, ed., New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000)
“Racial Violence Against Blacks and Civil Rights History,” Civil Rights in the United States (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 2000)
“The Constitutional Convention,” Encarta 99 (Microsoft, 1998), 1300 words
“The Declaration of Independence,” Encarta 99 (Microsoft, 1998), 1300 words
“Rioting in New York City,” Encyclopedia of New York City, Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995), 1006-1008.
“Mechanics in New York City in the Era of the Constitution,” Robert Goler, ed., Federal New York: A Symposium (New York: Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1990), 20-26.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
“Free Trade, Foreign Policy, and the Federalist Papers,” Institut Charles-V, Université Paris Diderot-Paris, Paris, France, November 25, 2010
“Free Trade and Revolutionary American Diplomacy” Carolyn Robbins Lecture in Eighteenth-Century History, University of London, London, UK, November 11, 2010
“Free Trade and Sailors' Right: The Origins, Politics, and Memory of the War of 1812,” University of Glasgow, UK, November 9, 2010; Centre d'Etudes Nord-Américaines, L’ecole des Hautes Etude en Sciences Sociales, University of Paris, Paris, France, November 24, 2010
“Free Trade,” Early American History Seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK, November 3, 2010
“The Origins of the War of 1812,” Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, October 12, 2010
“Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights: The Rhetoric of the War of 1812,” Presidential Address,  Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, Springfield, Illinois, July 19, 2009.
“‘The Worst and Most Profane Language I Have Ever Heard from Mortal Lips:’ Swearing in the American Age of Sail,” C. V. Starr Center and Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, October 29, 2008; John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, R.I., December 10, 2008; Glasgow Maritime Geographies Conference, keynote address, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, October 8, 2010; Warwick University, Coventry, UK, October 13, 2010; East Anglia University, Norwich, UK; November 15, 2010; .
“Language, Meaning, and Culture in the American Maritime World, 1750-1850,” Presentation to the staff at Mystic Seaport Research Library and Museum Collections, December 4, 2008
“To Swear Like A Sailor: Cursing in the American Age of Sail,” Presidential Lecture, Old Dominion University, February 1, 2006; Carleton College, April 25, 2008; McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 15, 2009; Keynote Address, Phi Alpha Theta Oklahoma Regional Conference, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, February 19, 2011                       
“Liberty on the Waterfront” Book Talk, New Bedford Whaling Museum, January 8, 2004; South Street Seaport Museum, New York City, January 12, 2004; C. V Starr Center for the Study of American Experience, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, September 29, 2005; Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, Virginia, Feb. 2, 2006
“Was America Born in the Streets? Gangs of New York and Political Violence in Historical Perspective, Panel Discussion Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, July 19, 2003
“‘You Damned Son of a Bitch:’ Profanity, Gender, and the American Maritime World, 1750-1850,” Organization of American Historians Convention, Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 2003
“The American Revolution and the Rise of Capitalism,” Elmira College, Elmira, New York, October 24, 2002
“The Enlightenment at Sea in the Atlantic World,” The Atlantic Enlightenment Seminar, University of Edinburgh, May 15, 2002

“Thomas Jefferson and the Common Man,” Jefferson Symposium, University of Oklahoma Law School, April 18, 2002         
“The Language of Jack Tar,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., September 12, 2001
“‘The Luxuriant Shoots of Liberty’:  The Dartmoor Massacre and American Maritime Culture, Omohundrho Institute of Early American History and Culture, Glasgow, Scotland, July 10-15, 2001
“A History of Upheaval,” University of Central Oklahoma, March 29, 2000
“Sweets of Liberty: The Idea of Liberty in American Maritime Culture, 1750-1850,” University of Glasgow, March 6, 2000; Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, March 9, 2000
“The Objectivity Question,” Seminar Presentation, University of Glasgow, March 7, 2000
“Rioting in America,” Seminar Presentation, University of Glasgow, March 3, 2000
“Change and Continuity in the American Revolution,” Seminar Presentation, University of Edinburgh, March 2, 2000
“Finding a Job in Academia: A Panel Discussion,” Mid-America Conference on History, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield Missouri, Sept 16-18, 1999
“The American Revolution as a Social Revolution: The Impact of War on Society,” Teaching of History Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, September 12, 1998
“Four Centuries of Rioting in America,” Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, and LeMoyne University, Syracuse, NY, Oct. 23 and 24, 1995
“Liberty on the Waterfront: American Sailors in the Early Republic,” Virginia Society of the Cincinnati Lecture, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, Oct. 1993
“‘Sweep Ho, Sweep Ho’: African-American Chimney Sweeps in New York City,” with Howard Rock, paper presented at the Society of Historians of the Early Republic meeting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, July 1993
“Rioting in American History,”  Department of History, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, October 30, 1991; Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, April 18, 1991
“The Extent of Freedom for American Waterfront Workers in the Age of Revolution” at a conference on "The Conditions of Freedom in the New American Republic," Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 27-29, 1990
“By Hammer and Hand,” Inaugural Lecture for exhibit "By Hammer and Hand: New York Trades Transformed, 1788-1842," South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY, February 1, 1990
“Sailors and the Waterfront in the Atlantic World in the Age of Sail,” Roundtable conference sponsored by the Atlantic Program in History, Culture, and Society at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 4, 1988.  Organizer and participant
“William Widger's Dream Revisited: The Patriotism and Mentalite of Jack Tar,” Paper presented at the Seminar for the Atlantic Program in History, Culture, and Society at Johns Hopkins University, February 23, 1988 and at the Seminar for the Philadelphia Center of Early American History and Culture, Philadelphia, PA, February 26, 1988
“The Common People and the Constitution: Popular Culture in Late Eighteenth-century New York City,” New-York Historical Society Conference, "New York in the Age of the Constitution," New York, NY, May 1987
“Mechanics in New York City in the Era of the Constitution,” Symposium on New York and the Constitution, Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York, NY, May 1987
“On the Waterfront: The World of Sailors and Stevedores in New York City, 1783-1834, Organization of American Historians Convention, New York, NY, April 1986
“New Years in New York: Treats, Frolics, Callithumpians, and the Problem of Order, 1750-1829,” paper presented at the Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians Annual Meeting, East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma, February 23, 1985
“Culture of Conflict: The Impact of Commercialization on New York Workingmen, 1787-1829,” The New-York Historical Society's Conference on New York and the Rise of American Capitalism, New York, NY, May 18-19, 1983
“Republican Rioting: Traditions of Anglo-American Mob Behavior in Revolutionary New York City,” The New-York Historical Society's Conference on Colonial and Revolutionary New York, New York, NY, May 20-21, 1983
“Rioting at the End of the Revolution,” paper presented at Triumph of the American Revolution Symposium, Keene State College, Keene, NH, April 1983
“Summary of Mobocracy: Popular Disturbances in Post-Revolutionary New York City, 1783-1829,” dissertation session at the American Historical Association convention, Washington, D.C., December 1980
“Faces in the Crowd: Identifying Rioters in New York City, 1783-1824,” paper presented at the conference of the Society of Historians of the Early Republic at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, July 1980

REVIEWS WRITTEN:
Review of Howard B. Rock, Artisans of the New Republic: The Tradesmen of New York City in the Age of Jefferson (New York: New York University Press, 1979) in Journal of the Early Republic, 2 (Summer 1982), 201-02.
Review of W. J. Rorabaugh, The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age (New York: Oxford University, 1986) in Journal of American History, 73 (December 1986), 744-45.
Review of Graham Russell Hodges, New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850 (New York:  New York University Press, 1986) in Journal of the Early Republic, 6 (Winter 1986), 436-37.
Review of Nicolaus Mills, The Crowd in American Literature (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986) in Journal of American History, 74 (March 1988), 1316-17.
Review of Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. 46 (April 1989), 390-92.
Review of Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988) and Julie Winch, Philadelphia’s Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988) in Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies, 10 ( May 1989), 90-92.
Review of L. Ray Gunn, The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York, 1800-1860 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1988) in Business History Review, 63 (Summer 1989), 422-24.
Review of Robert E. Cray, Jr., Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988) in The American Historical Review, 94 (December 1989), 1474.
Review of Bert Bender, Sea-Brothers: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988) in Genre, 22 (Winter 1989), 422-25.
Review of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South in Gender and American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988) in Journal of the Early Republic, 10 (Spring 1990), 107-08.
Review of Hendrick Hartog, Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983) in The American Journal of Legal History, 34 (July 1990), 322-23.
Review of Mark Harrison, Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790-1835 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, (Summer 1990).
Review of Sharon V. Salinger, “To Serve Well and Faithfully”: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) in American Historical Review, 95 (December 1990), 1622.
Review of Richard B. Stott, Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1990) in Journal of Social History, 25 (Winter 1991), 410-11.
Review of Barbara Karsky and Elise Marienstras eds., Travail et Loisir dans les Societes Pre-Industrielles (Nancy: Press Universitaires de Nancy, 1991) in Journal of the Early Republic, 12 (Spring 1992), 96-98.
Review of Shane White, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1991) in “Between Slavery and Freedom: New York African Americans in the Early Republic” in Reviews in American History, 20 (June 1992), 163-67.
Review of Joyce D. Goodfriend, Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992) in American Historical Review, 97 (December 1992), 1586.
Review of Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992) in The North Carolina Historical Review, 70 (July 1993), 341.
Review of Robert F. Jones, “The king of the Alley”: William Duer– Politician, Entrepreveur, and Speculator, 1768-1799 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1992) in The Business History Review, 67 (Summer 1993), 308-09.
Review of Jacob M. Price, Perry of London: A Family on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615-1753 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992) in “The Rise and Fall of the House of Perry: A Tale of Anglo-American Maritime Enterprise” in Reviews in American History, 21 (September 1993), 390-393.
Review of Ronald Schultz, The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720-1830 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) in Business History Review, 67 (Winter 1993), 641-42.
Review of Kenneth A. Scherzer, The Unbounded Community: Neighborhood Life and Social Structure in New York City, 1830-1875 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992) in History of Education Quarterly, 34 (Autumn 1994), 378-380.
Review of J. A. Leo Lemay, Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1992) and Lemay, The American Dream of Captain John Smith (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1991) in Mississippi Quarterly, 47 (Fall 1994), 679-83.
Review of Michael A. Gordon, The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993) in Journal American History, 81 (March 1995), 1742.
Review of Thomas Dublin, ed., Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993) in Journal of American Ethnic History, 14 (Spring 1995), 68.
Review of Sheldon S. Cohen, Yankee Sailors in British Gaols: Prisoners of War at Forton and Mill,1773-1783 (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995) in The American Neptune, (Spring 1996).
Review of Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, eds., The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the American Revolution and a Social Movement (Charlottesville and London: The University Press of Virginia, 1995) in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, (Autumn 1996).
Review of Martin J. Burke, The Conundrum of Class: Political Discourse on the Social Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) in Labor History, 38 (Spring/Summer 1997), 343-344.
Review of Craig Hanyan and Mary L. Hanyan, De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People’s Men (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996) in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 54 (October 1997), 901-02.
Review of W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1997) in New York History, (April 1998).
Review of L. Tracy Girdler, An Antebellum Life at Sea: Featuring the Journal of Sarah Jave Girdler, Kept Aboard the Clipper Ship Robert H. Dixey, From America to Russia and Europe, January 1857-December 1858 (Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1997) in American Neptune (May 1998), 228-29.
Review of Thomas R. Heinrich, Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) in The Journal of American History, 85 (December 1998), 1105-06.
Review of Michael A. Bellesiles, ed., Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History (New York: New York University Press, 1999) in H-net (1999).
Review of David Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) in H-net (1999).
Review of Mark M. Smith, Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997) in Journal of Southern History, 65 (May 1999), 399-400.
Review of Daniel Georgiana and Roberta Hazen Aaronson, The Strike of ‘28 (New Bedford, Massachusetts: Spinner Publications, Inc., 1993) in Labor History, 40 (August 1999), 403-404.
Review of Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1999) in Labor History, 40 (November 1999), 542-43.
Review of Amy S. Greenberg, Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998) in American Historical Review, 104 (December 1999), 1669.
Review of Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger, eds., Inequality in Early America (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999) in The Journal of American History, 87 (December 2000), 1008-09.
Review of Tim Madigan, The Burning: The Massacre and Destruction of Place Called Greenwood (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 2001) and James S. Hirsch, Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001) in Chicago Tribune, (January 27, 2002), section 14 cover and page 4.
Review of Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (Cambridge: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2000) in Biography (Honolulu), 25 (Spring 2002), 405-407.
Review of Jack Tager, Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001) in The Journal of American History, 89 (June 2002), 200-01.
Review of Wayne E. Lee, Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001) in American Historical Review, 107 (October 2002), 1225.
Review of Tyler Anbinder, Five Points (New York: Free Press, 2001) and Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001) and Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of Chicago (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001) and Herbert Asbury, The Barbary Coast (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001) in Gangs, the Five Points, and the American Public on Commonplace (April 15, 2003).
Review of Helen Tangires, Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) in Business History Review, 78 (Summer 2004), 287-89.
Review of Eduardo Obregón Pagán, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L. A. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) in The American Historical Review, 110 (February 2005), 178-79.
Review of Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004) in The New England Quarterly, 78 (March 2005), 142-44.
Review of William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003) in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 36 (September 2005), 280-81.
Review of Stephen R. Taaffe, The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003) in The Historian, 67 (Fall 2005), 546-47.
Review of Stephen P. Rice, Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) in Journal of the Early Republic, 25 (Fall 2005), 491-493.
Review of Michael J. Pfeifer, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004) in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Summer 2006), 145-46.
Review of Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas, eds., The Creation of the British Atlantic World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) in Labor, 3 (Winter 2006), 80-82.

Review of Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005) in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Winter 2007) 463-65.
Review of Jonathan Daniel Wells, The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Spring 2007) 637-38.
Review of Michael J. Crawford, et al., eds, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol. 11, American Theater: January 1, 1778-March 31, 1778.  European Theater: January 1, 1778-March 31, 1778 (Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 2005) in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131 (January 2007), 108-09.
Review of Martha Hodes The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race,, and War in the Nineteenth Century. By. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006) in New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 147-48.
Review of Ira Stoll, Samuel Adams: A Life (New York: Free Press, 2008), Journal of American History, (December 2009), 823-24.
Review of Lawrence A. Peskin, Captives and Countrymen: Barbary Slavery and the American Public, 1785-1816, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), American Historical Review, 115 (February 2010), 223-24.
Review of David R. Meyer, Networked Machinists: High Technology Industries in Antebellum America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); David R. Meyer, The Roots of American Industrialization (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) in review essay entitled “Expanding the Industrial Revolution,” in Journal of Urban History, 36, (March 2010), 263-68.
Review of Rachel Hope Cleves, The Reign of Terror in America: Visions from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 41 (Summer 2010), 156-57.
Review/Introduction (Moderator in Round Table Discussion) of Leonard J. Sadosky, Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009) in H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews, Vol. XI, No 38 (2010), 2-5.
Review of Thomas Truxes, Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) in Social History in press.
Review of Nancy K. Loane, Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment (Washington, D. C.: Potomac Books, 2009) in Minerva Journal of Women and War in press.

COURSES TAUGHT:
At the University of Oklahoma:
            Colonial American History     
            American Revolution
            The Rise of American Capitalism (1789-1850)
            American History Survey (1492-1865)
American Revolution (undergraduate seminar)
Literature of American Revolution (undergraduate seminar)
            American Maritime History in the Age of Sail (undergraduate seminar)
            Riots in American History
            Police in America
Violence and Crime in America
            Historical Methods (graduate seminar)
            Early American History (graduate seminar)
            Revolutionary America (graduate seminar)
            Roots of American Foreign Policy (graduate seminar)
            Roots of American Foreign Policy (undergraduate class)
At the University of Glasgow
            Early American Republic
At New York University:
            Violence in American History (graduate seminar)
            American Revolution

HONORS:
President, Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic, 2008-2009
The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book Award for 2004 for Liberty on the Waterfront
The North American Society for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Award for the Best Book in United States Maritime History in 2004 for Liberty on the Waterfront
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma, 2000-2004
Department of History Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Mentoring,, 2000
Who’s Who in America, 2000-present
Who’s Who in the World, 2000-present
Centennial Historian of the City of New York, January 21, 1999
Kerr History Prize, New York State Historical Society (for the best article in New York History), 1997
Virginia Society of Cincinnati Lecturer, Washington and Lee University, 1993
Merrick Foundation Teaching Award, University of Oklahoma, 1993
Fellow, Center for the History of Freedom, Washington University, St. Louis, 1991
Rockefeller Resident Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1987-1988
Fellowship, Philadelphia Center for Early American History and Culture, for 1987-1988 (declined)
Archie H. Greenberg Memorial Scholarship--granted by Brooklyn College, CUNY for graduate education in history, September 1974-June 1975
Phi Beta Kappa, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 1974
New York State Regents Scholarship, 1969-1974

MAJOR AND RECENT FUNDING:
Presidential International Travel Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, September 2010  ($1200)     
“The Language of Jack Tar,” Writing Fellowship, C. V. Starr Center, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, Housing for November 2008
“The Language of Jack Tar,” Gardner-Pingree Fellow, Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem Mass., free housing September 2001
“The Language of Jack Tar,” University of Oklahoma Research Council Award Summer 2001 ($2190)
Presidential International Travel Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, , July 2001  ($1194.80)
University of Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Enrichment Grant, Summer 2001 ($1,000)
“Visualizing Liberty on the Waterfront,” Oklahoma Humanities Council, 2000 ($3,000)
“Faculty Exchange to University of Glasgow,” College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Enrichment Award, 1999-2000 ($1000)        
“Liberty on the Waterfront: Society and Culture in the American Maritime World, 1750-1850,” Research Council of University of Oklahoma Small Grant Award, 1998-1999 ($1,000)
“Liberty on the Waterfront: Society and Culture in the American Maritime World, 1750-1850,” College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Enrichment Award, 1998-1999 ($1,000)
“Liberty on the Waterfront: The American Maritime World in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850,” NEH Summer Fellowship, Summer 1998 ($4,000)
“Liberty on the Waterfront: The American Maritime World in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850,” University of Oklahoma nominee for NEH summer stipend for 1998.  Nomination carries a grant from the Research Council ($1,000)
“Liberty on the Waterfront: Society and Culture of the American Maritime World in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850,” Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Research Fellowship ($1500), Summer 1996
“Liberty and American Maritime Prisoners of War During the War for Independence,” University of Oklahoma nominee for NEH summer stipend for 1994.  Nomination carries a grant from the Research Council ($1,000)
“The Extent of Freedom for American Waterfront Workers in the Age of Revolution,” Center for the History of Freedom, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Spring, 1991 ($20,000)
“The Extent of Freedom for American Waterfront Workers in the Age of Revolution,” Senior
Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, Summer, 1990 ($6,000)
“Rioting in American History,” University of Oklahoma Research Council Award to reduce course load for Spring 1990 semester
“Rioting in American History,” Southwestern Bell Fellowship, Summer 1989 ($5,000)
“Democracy on the Waterfront: Society and Culture of American Sailors and Stevedores,” Rockefeller Resident Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1987-1988 ($21,500)
“Democracy on the Waterfront: Society and Culture of American Sailors and Stevedores,” Massachusetts Historical Society Research Grant, 1987-1988 ($1,500)
“The People and the Constitution: A Bicentennial Examination of the Constitution as a Shaping Force,” NEH, Office of the Bicentennial Humanities Program for Non-Traditional Learners, 1986-87 ($65,000)