Short Pieces and Other Writing

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.

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.

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