I write the stories of people, places, and movements of the past, with a special focus on trends and events that can help us solve today's challenges.

Frederick Douglass and the Blackalls 
New York State Archives Magazine
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Dredging magnate John McMullen's gift is still giving
Cornell 

Cisneros sisters blaze a path
Texas Law

Dale Clark and the Clock of the Nations
Rochester Beacon

​Women who founded Rochester General
POST

​Girl power
Smith Alumnae Quarterly

​Dutch roots run deep
Hudson Valley Magazine

RIT's decisive moment
Rochester Beacon

The cascading effect of a 19th-century professorship
Cornell

The sound of silent movies
​On Wisconsin Magazine

Museum momentum: Frederick Douglass in Rochester
Rochester Beacon

​Kodak's George Eastman: Not just driven, but fun
Q&A with Eastman biographer Betsy Brayer
Rochester Business Journal

Alice Holloway Young, education innovator and pioneer
Rochester Beacon

A home's roots revealed
Rochester Beacon

Rochester's imperiled heritage
Part 1 
A plight years in the making
Part 2 
​Rochester Beacon

Martha Matilda Harper, franchising's first 
Rochester Review

The road to the RN
POST

In Mount Hope, stories waiting to be told
Rochester Business Journal

Industries of old put Flower City on the map
Ghost Walk 
Oak Hill Country Club
Rochester Business Journal