Education
Bachelor in History, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, 1972. Master of Arts in American History, University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in American History, University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1980.
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Bachelor in History, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, 1972. Master of Arts in American History, University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in American History, University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1980.
Assistant professor humanities University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1983—1989, associate professor science, technical and society, 1989—2009, associate professor emeritus, science, technical and society, since 2009. Writer, history consultant, since 2009. Indiana history researcher, since 1979.
Consultant Uncommon History of Common Things, 2009.
Author: The Spirit of the Times: Amusements in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond, 1989, Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867, 2001, Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony (Best of History Website, 2002). Contributor chapters to books, articles to professional journals.
Member of Virginia History Society, Humanities and Technology Association (executive committee 1990-1993, member editorial board Humanities and Technology Review), University Virginia Lychnos Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta.