SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture Co-editor and author of chapter on Catholics and the San Francisco labor movement.
Social Change in the United States Author
"The Contemporary USA" Book Series Co-editor
San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power and Urban Development Co-author
San Francisco: Presidio, Port, and Pacific Metropolis Co-author
RECENT ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
review: Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco by Teresa Gowan, in California History , Volume 88, 3, 2011.
review: Religion in American Politics: A Short History, by Frank Lambert, in The History Teacher, May 2011.
"An Historian's Thoughts about Catholics and the Labor Movement, Labor Day 2010," Catholic San Francisco, Sept. 3, 2010.
"'A Different Era': Julia Gorman Porter's San Francisco Liberalism," in THE ARGONAUT (Winter 2008)
With Mary Anne Wold, "Catholics and the Campaign for Racial Justice in San Francisco, From Pearl Harbor to Proposition 14," AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDIES (Fall 2008).
"Faith-Based Activism in American Cities: The Case of the San Francisco Catholic Action Cadre," JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE (Summer 2008).
"For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action in Northern California During the 1930s," in Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices (Texas A & M Press, 2007).
" 'Still Potentially Dangerous in Some Quarters': Sylvester Andriano, Catholic Action, and Un-American Activities in California" in PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, May 2006.
"Andriano's Ordeal: The Story of a Catholic Attorney, a Divided City, and a Nation at War," (2007) in SAN FRANCISCO POLITICAL CULTURE
"For Both Cross and Flag": Catholic Action in Northern California during the 1930s" in Transatlantica: revue d'études américanines/american studies journal, 2006.
"The Catholic International": Mayor Joseph L. Alioto's Urban Liberalism and San Francisco Catholicism" in U.S.CATHOLIC HISTORIAN, Spring 2004.
"Humanity is One Great Family": Jews and Catholics in the San Francisco Civil Rights Campaign, 1940 -- 1960, in CALIFORNIA JEWS, 2003.
"Review Essay: Recent Histories of Race Relations in California in World War II and the Cold War," an H-Net Book Review (2005) on H-California, the Online Discussion Network for California History and Culture.
"Fallacious Assertions about
Immigrants, Religion, and Public Policy"
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Letter
to the Editor August 24, 2007
"Beyond the Culture
Wars" SAN
FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Open Forum Op-Ed Essay
Jan. 16, 2004.