News

Title reveal! My next book: Alias Agnes: the Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy. Coming April 2025 from the University Press of Kentucky.

Events

Join me at the Milbridge (ME) Theatre and Community Arts Center for a talk on The Great Turn-Out of 1841, when textile mill operatives walked off the job. Wednesday, August 21, 1:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council.

Past Events and Older News

A Summer Tale about Frogs, published in Farmerish, 2023 Annual. Myra and the Frog Boy 9/22/23

I had the great pleasure of being a guest historian on Lucy Worsley’s BBC show Lady Killers. Here’s the episode on Massachusetts nurse—and serial killer— Jane Toppan.

Delighted to announce that the University Press of Kentucky will be publishing my next book, The Ten-Week Detective: One Stenographer’s Quest to Uncover Women’s Lives in the Gilded Age. Follow my page for news on research puzzles, writing challenges, and publication updates! 6/2022

Grateful to receive an academic research grant from Sisters in Crime to investigate 19th-century women detectives 9/10/21

Celebrating Maine’s bicentennial with a look at Maine women’s history on Maine Calling (Maine Public Radio) 9/4/20

Do you know what a “short snorter” is? Find out on Nursing Clio 7/15/20

In the midst of a pandemic, remembering my grandmother’s mocha cake. Historians Cooking the Past 4/29/20

On Mourning, Hair, and COVID-19 from History in the Margins, April 3, 2020.

Upcoming Talks & Appearance

Interested in a talk or a reading? I Zoom! Contact me!