Frontispiece, Increase Mather's The Necessity of Reformation, 1679

 

Public policy issues, esp. elite historical myths

 

Policy legends and folklists, traditional beliefs in the public sphere.  (with Gary Fine).  Forthcoming, Journal of American Folklore, 2010.

 

Cigarettes and cabbages (unpublished op-ed)

 

Anorexia statistics (unpublished op-ed)

 

America Almost Spoke German! The Meaning of the Myth (unpublished op-ed)

 

History of a Hoax. New York Times Magazine.  Copy from alt.folklore.urban

  —featured on CBC's As It Happens and on ABC's 20/20

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