SWAG��Ƶ

Other scholarly activity

Reviews

• Review of Environmental History by Ian Simmons, The Environmental Professional, Vol. 17, No.1, March, 1995. 
• Review of Coastal Maine: a Maritime History by Roger Duncan, The American Neptune, Summer, 1995. 
• Review of 'Eastland': Legacy of the 'Titanic' by George Woodman Hilton, The American Neptune, Summer, 1996. 
• Review of The United States in the Pacific: Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-1899 by Donald D. Johnson (with Gary Dean Best), The Pacific Historical Review, Spring, 1997 (with Jacques Downs) 
• Review of The War of 1898, The Spanish-American War in Historiography, by Louis Pérez, Michigan Historical Review, Winter, 1999.
• Review of James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire, by Edward P. Crapol (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2000), Maine History, Summer, 2001.
• Review of New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina’s State Parks, Tara Mitchell Mielnik (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2011), The Journal of Tourism History, Winter 2014.
• Review of Mr. Speaker: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster, by James Grant (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011), Maine History, July 2014.
• Review of Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity and US Colonialism in the Pacific, Joy Schulz (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Journal of American Ethnic History, Spring 2020.  
   

Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures (selected):

• "Like Father, Unlike Son: The Politics of Arthur and Harold Sewall," 18th Annual International Maritime History Symposium, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine, May 10, 1993.
• "Two Euro-American Males Teaching for Diversity," 18th Annual National Conference of the Society for Scholars and Educators, Buffalo, New York, March 17, 1995.
• "Maine Migrations: The Sewalls in the Pacific," Washburn Center History Conference, Turner, Maine, June 9, 1995.
• "Harold Marsh Sewall and the Maine-Pacific Connection," American Historical Association,  Pacific Branch, Maui, Hawaii, August 7, 1995.
• "The Myth of American Exceptionalism and the Flight From History," paper presented to the SWAG��Ƶ Faculty Colloquium, April 2, 1997.
• "Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil," an invited lecture presented as part of the University of Southern Maine's "Brazil Immersion Program," April 4, 1997.
• “Harold Marsh Sewall and the Truculent Pursuit of Empire; Samoa, 1887-1889,” University of Hawaii Symposium on Maritime History and the History of the Pacific, February 16, 1998.
• Maine Public Radio, Maine Things Considered, “Maine’s Involvement in the Annexation of Hawai’i.” (interview) August 13, 1998.
• “Imperial Maine: the Sewalls and Doles in the Pacific,” University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, April 11, 1999.
• “US Visions of Pax Americana: Myths and Realities,” Krefeld, Germany, May 14, 1999.
• “Reflexões Sobre Os Estados Unidos no Final do Século e do Milénio,” delivered at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, September 14, 1999; and at the Universtário de Barra Mansa, Brazil, November 23, 1999.
• “Christopher Lasch no Contexto Historiográfico,” Universitário de Barra Mansa, Brazil,” November 24, 1999.
• Chair, panel titled “Imagined Places, Marginal Worlds in the Progressive and Depression Era,” New England Historical Association, Stonehill College. Easton, Massachusetts, October 21, 2000.
• “From Religion to Business: Maine Missionaries in Hawaii,” New England Historical Association, Salve Regina University Newport RI, April 21, 2001.
• “Maine Merchant-Capitalists and Missionaries in Hawai’i: 1832-1850,” SHAFR Conference, Washington, DC, June 16, 2001.
• “God and Mammon in Hawaii,” New England Historical Association, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, October 19, 2002.
• “Empire without End,” Citizens Offering New Alternatives, Walpole, ME,  January 17, 2003.
• “Peter Allan Brinsmade and the Tragic Pursuit of a ‘Pious Capitalism’,” American Historical Association, Pacific Branch, August 2, 2003.
• “Imperial Maine,” presentation to the SWAG��Ƶ Faculty colloquium, April 22, 2004.
• “Imperial Maine,” Kennebec Historical Society, Augusta, ME, May 19, 2004.
• “Elisa Bond in Hawai’i, 1841-1896,” American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Jose, CA, August 6, 2004.
• “Luther Severance in Hawai’i,” Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, LA, March 24, 2005.
• Respondent, Second Annual College of Arts and Sciences/Environmental Studies Symposium,” Westbrook College Campus, Portland, Maine, April 10, 2006.
• Maine Public Radio,  Maine Things Considered, Imperial Maine and Hawai’i. (interview)
• “Empire and the American Way of Life,” College of Arts & Sciences’ Core Connection Address, September 20, 2006.
• “Imperial Maine and Hawai’i” invited lecture, Maine Historical Society, Portland, Maine, October 31, 2006.
• “Missionary Dilemmas,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 1. 2007.
• “Dissent within the Hawaiian Missionary Community,” Pacific World & American West Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, February 8, 2008.
• “Internal Missionary Community Controversies in Hawai’i, 1820-1845,” New England Historical Association, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, April 18, 2009.
• “The United States in the Twenty-First Century: Republic of Empire,” Center for Global Humanities, SWAG��Ƶ, March 29, 2010.
• "The Salary Controversy Among Early 19th Century Missionaries to Hawai’i,” Congregational Library, Boston, Massachusetts, September 25, 2010.

• “Internal Missionary Controversies in Hawai’i,’ PCB-AHA Conference, San Diego, CA, August 12, 2012

• “Pay or Communalism,” NEHA Conference, October 13, 2012. -“O Segundo Mandato de Obama,” invited lecture, Universidade do Rio Grande do Norte, June 3, 2013.