Writing and Current Scholarship
Books
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire. The Battle of Adwa is the first comprehensive account of one of the most important events in the history of modern Africa. It concerns African resistance to European colonization in the 1880s and after.
The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War explores the boundary between sanctity and hysteria; it follows a modern Joan of Arc as she
France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart; An Epic Tale for Modern Times is a history of the political culture of counter-revolution after 1789.
Le Sacré-Cœur; histoire d’une dévotion du XVIe au XXe siècle is a work of popularization. It is part of a French paperback series called “En Trente
Industry and Politics in Rural France, 1870-1914 takes the well-known
Interviews and Digital Scholarship
BattleofAdwa.org - a web site devoted to the battle of Adwa 
Author interview with Harvard University Press
Author interview with Ethiopian Satellite TV (ESAT)
FranceHS - Scholarly listserv
Software - PBR - Personal Bibliographical Reference
Select Articles
“Vox Dei, Vox Populi: Sacred Art and Popular Politics in the French West” in Nationalism and Visual Culture (series title: Studies in the History of Art), June Hargrove & Neil McWilliam, eds, (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2005):195-207. This article took shape as a talk
"Sacred Tourism and Secular Pilgrimage: Montmartre and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur," Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture, 94-119. Gabriel Weisberg, editor, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Another museum conference. This one was held at the Minneapolis
"Peasants, Population, and Industry in France," A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader, Robert Rotberg, editor, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000): 263-286. This piece explored French rhetoric about decadence and
« L'Année Terrible, 1870-1871» in Le Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre; Un Voeu National, 31-41. Edited by Jacques Benoist. Paris: DAAVP, 1995. This piece came out of a conference sponsored by the DAAVP, the ministry of
« La colonne Sherman et la Vendée dans l'imaginaire américain » in Guerre et répression: la Vendée et le monde. Jean-Clément Martin, editor. Nantes: Ouest Editions, 1993. My first foray into the history of the United States. The occasion was a conference held at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Cholet