Articles

As a freelance writer I regularly publish features, reviews and other articles in a variety of magazines, including Calliope, History Channel Magazine, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Saudi Aramco World, and Victorian Home.   Here are some of  my favorite pieces:

THE RYOTS’ REVOLT
Calliope

It was the fall of 1859, and thousands of ryots (peasant farmers) in the Indian province of Bengal were refusing to accept cash advances to plant indigo crops in the spring.  Their act of resistance became known as the Blue Mutiny.Download the PDF.

QUIET IMAGES FROM THE VALLEY OF DEATH
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

Crimean War photographer Roger Fenton focused on pomp and camp life.Download the PDF.

HEROES IN COATS, BREECHES AND COCK’D HATS
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History
In The Death of General Wolfe, Benjamin West combined elements of national pride, historical accuracy, and Christian iconography to create a new image of the heroic.Download the PDF.

THE HAKAWATI OF PARIS
Saudi Aramco World

The most popular stories from the Islamic world ever told in the West are The thousand and One Nights.  Like an Arab storyteller, or hakawati, scholar Antoine Galland cherry-picked from oral traditions an rewrote the tales for his French readers.View the article on-line.

THE TOWN THAT WATER BUILT
Victorian Homes

Healing springs put the historic Victorian town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas on the map.Download the PDF.