Articles
- Inside the Top-Secret Project that Led to One of the World’s Greatest Counterespionage FeatsPopular Mechanics
- Inside Operation PLUTO, the Allies’ Brazen Attempt to Build the ImpossiblePopular Mechanics, print edition, February 2026
- Inside the Race to Destroy the World’s First Ballistic MissilePopular Mechanics, print edition, July 2025
- This Brilliant Inventor Claimed He Made a Deadly Laser-powered Ray Gun. Historians Still Don’t Know if it was Real.Popular Mechanics, on Apple News
- The Secret Mission to Stop the Nazis from Building a Nuclear BombPopular Mechanics, on Apple News
- What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Operation Mincemeat?Slate
- What is Fascism?The Conversation
- ‘Just Like at Madrid, Comrades!’Lapham’s Quarterly
- Lessons of a Hero From the Plague for Surviving the CoronavirusThe Daily Beast
- The Bedside Reading of the Post-Trump NationalistsMEL Magazine
- The Studious Resistance of Marc BlochHistory Today
- Why there is no Kurdish nationThe Conversation
- The difference between ‘left’ and ‘liberal’, and why voters need to knowThe Conversation
- The (Forgotten) Iraq WarBBC History Magazine
- Allied leaders were anti-Nazi, but not anti-racist. We’re now paying the price for their failureThe Washington Post
- There is nothing liberal about fascismThe Washington Post
- This Intrepid British Adventurer Talked Her Way into Forbidden LandsOZY (no longer online)
- What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Darkest Hour?Slate
- Kroomen: Black Slaver HuntersHistory Today
- What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Dunkirk?Slate
- Dunkirk survivors’ terror didn’t end when they were rescuedThe Conversation, republished at Salon and Business Insider
- ‘Rally ’Round the Flag’: Will the Press Have Trump’s Back if He Starts a War?Paste
- How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movementThe Conversation, republished at Newsweek
- Hitler’s Man on British RadioSlate
- Did the Muslim World Really Fall for Hitler?Slate
- Triumph of the F-You Boys: How Trump Won the Anti-Establishment Vote that MatteredPaste
- 2017 isn’t ‘1984’: it’s stranger than Orwell imaginedThe Conversation, republished at U.S. News
- The Priest Turned Media Mogul Who Stirred Up a Populist FrenzyOZY
- Normalizing FascistsThe Conversation, republished at The Guardian
- The Real Reason Charles Dickens Wrote A Christmas CarolTime
- What Charles Dickens’s Britain Has to Do with the 2016 ElectionHistory News Network
- How extralegal actions with a veneer of normalcy can lead to a nightmareMinnPost
- We asked 16 historians if Donald Trump is a fascist. This is what they saidRaw Story
- The Shocking Story of Hitler’s Jewish SpyTime
- Farage in ClevelandCity Club of Cleveland