Publications

Books

Underground

A ride into Beckley’s Exhibition Coal Mine becomes a journey through compressed sunlight, ancient forests, industrial power, and the human costs buried within Appalachia’s coal…

A Return to an Underrated Battlefield

A return to Bushy Run reveals not only an overlooked colonial battlefield, but the many layers of memory, commemoration, landscape, and witness that have accumulated…

These Restless Hills

At the height of the industrial Gilded Age, amidst the blazing fires of the steel mill and black depths of the coal mine, the chase…

Essays

The Ligonier Mountain Pace Car

Picture this: a hot July day in 1932. A Duesenberg convertible (let’s imagine it bright red), piloted by Fred Duesenberg himself, thunders westbound on Route…

Time and Co-Motion: The Industrial-Pastoral

Time changes one’s perspective; if one is careful, perspective also changes one’s time. The American pastoral is wilderness, or at least woods. The British pastoral…