Publications: Monographs

• Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (University Press of Kentucky), 2005
  
  
• The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections
  (Routledge Press - Paperback Book), 2001
  (Routledge Press - Hardback Book), 2001
  
  
• Instructor's Manual for America in Modern Times, by Alan Brinkley & Ellen Fitzpatrick. (McGraw-Hill), 1997

Publications: Articles And Chapters

• The American National Biography (Oxford University Press), 1998
  36 articles: "Behn, Sosthenes," "Breech, Ernest Robert," "Briscoe, Benjamin," "Carvel, Thomas Andreas," "Canaday, Ward Murphey," "Casey, James E.," "Cord, Errett Lobban," "Cullinan, Joseph Stephen," "Davis, Arthur Vining," "DeButts, John Delany," "Dodge, John Francis and Horace Elgin," "Donner, Frederic Garrett," "Earl, Harley Jefferson," "Fisher, Frederic" et. al., "Frazer, Joseph Washington," "Hoover, Herbert William," "Jacobs, Walter L.," "Keller, Kaufman Thuma," "Knowles, John Hilton," "Leland, Henry Martyn," "Mason, George Walter," "Odlum, Floyd Bostwick," "Olds, Irving Sands," "Otis, Charles Rollin," Piper, William Thomas," "Powers, John Robert," "Prentis, Henning Webb, Jr.," "Revson, Charles Haskell," "Stearns, Frank Ballou," "Straus, Roger Williams," "Tucker, Preston Thomas," "Wampler, Cloud," "Weyerhaeuser, Phil," "Wills, Childe Harold," "Woodruff, George Waldo"
  
  
• The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency, edited by Alan Brinkley & Davis Dyer (Houghton Mifflin)
    - chapter on Gerald R. Ford

Publications: Internet Articles

• "Why Did Gerald Ford Criticize His Former Colleagues and the Iraq War?", Dec. 29, 2006
  History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/33461.html)
  
  
• "Lessons from the Nation*s Oldest President", Nov. 13, 2006
  History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/31984.html)
  
  
• The History News Service (national editorials)
  "Gerald Ford's Civility Helped Unite a Divided Nation", August 21, 2004
  Tallahassee Democrat
  "Memo to Next President: Follow Ford's Example", August 24, 2004
  Bergen Country Record [NJ]
  "Ford Showed How Politics Didn't Have To Be Polarized", August 25, 2004
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  "Gerald Ford Helped Heal the Nation at a Polarized Time", August 29, 2004
  Peoria Journal-Star [IL]
  "America could use 'accidental president' Gerald Ford once again", September 4, 2004
  Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star [VA]
  
  
• "The Secret of Gerald Ford's Success...30 Years After He Became President, It's Time To Consider What Made Him Tick", August 2, 2004
  History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/6501.html)
  
  
• "Why the Death Notice of Former Congressman Barber Conable Attracted This Historian's Attention", December 8, 2003
  History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/1848.html)
  
  
• "The Man Who Brought Us Cadillac and Lincoln", August 26, 2003
  History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/1646.html)
  
  
• "Happy Birthday, President Ford", July 16, 2003
  History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/1574.html)
  
  
• "Just Who Was Harley Earl?", December 9, 2002
  History News Network (http://hnn.us/articles/1145.html)

Activities

• Reader for the Advanced Placement Exam in U.S. History, Educational Testing Service
• Faculty Advisor, Dowling College chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
• History Department Chair (2000-03)
• Oral histories: the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency; the Gerald R. Ford presidency; friends and family of Ernie Davis (first African American to win the Heisman Trophy)
• Television commentator for "Our Town," Long Island Cablevision
• Consultant for McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Pennsylvania Historical Society
• Writing Fellow, The American National Biography
• Research Grant Recipient: Gerald R. Ford Foundation, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, Rockefeller Archive Center, Lilly Library (Indiana University)