American History Magazine Article
The April 2021 issue of American History Magazine includes my latest article, “Half in Love with Death,” on the scourge of consumption or “the White Plague” in the early Republic. […]
The April 2021 issue of American History Magazine includes my latest article, “Half in Love with Death,” on the scourge of consumption or “the White Plague” in the early Republic. […]
Check out my article in the February 2019 issue of Early American Life. “The Striped Pig – A Tale of Porcine Protest,” tells the story of wily Yankee protesters in […]
I’m thrilled to share that Declaring Independence: Then and New,” the joint program of Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area and the American Antiquarian Society, has received a national Award of […]
Reconsidering the Promises of the Declaration of Independence I’ve been busy this past spring and summer preparing scripts and narrating performances of Declaring Independence – Then and Now. The program is […]
American Antiquarian Society announces: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 – 6:00pm to 9:00pm Hands-On History Workshop Declaring Independence — Then and Now Lead Scholars: Danielle Allen and Mary Babson Fuhrer Co-Sponsored […]
I’m honored that Crisis of Community has been awarded the inaugural Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for best non-fiction book on Massachusetts history! Below is the announcement from the Massachusetts […]
I appreciate Johann Neem’s gentle review of A Crisis of Community in the April 2015 volume of the American Historical Review. I would not, however, like to leave readers with the […]
In the December 2014 issue of the Journal of American History, Shelby Balik gives a favorable review of Crisis of Community. She notes that, “Fuhrer shows how the grand narratives of the early […]
Richard Brown, renowned scholar of New England social history, recently gave Crisis of Community an enthusiastic review in the Winter 2014 issue of the New England Quarterly, pp. 757-59. I […]
Megan Woolhouse of the Boston Globe staff recently reviewed my book. I was pleased that she highlighted the connections between my book’s themes and a number of contemporary issues. Here’s […]