Publications:

Books

Sandhill Cities: Metropolitan Ambitions on Georgia's Fall Line. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, under advance contract), in review.

Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in 'The Best Location in the Nation.'" Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017.

New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006 (cloth), 2013 (paper/ebook).

American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition. Co-edited with Nicholas Dagen Bloom. Chicago: Center for American Places, 2012.



Peer-Reviewed Articles and Essays

"Through the Ivory Curtain: African Americans in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, before the Fair Housing Movement." Journal of Urban History 49, no. 6 (November 2023): 1312-1341.

"Digital Storytelling and University-based Community Engagement in Cleveland," in Engaging Place, Engaging Practice: Urban History and Campus-Community Partnerships. Ed. Robin F. Bachin and Amy Howard. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022. 70-95.

"Building Global Citizenship through the African Digital Public Humanities: The MaCleKi Collaborative" (with Meshack Owino), in Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization. Ed. Toyin Falola and Céline A. Jacquemin. London: Lexington Books, 2022. 191-210.

"Making 'The Garden City of the South': Beautification, Preservation, and Downtown Planning in Augusta, Georgia," Journal of Planning History 20, no. 2 (May 2021): 87-116.

"'Green Spots in the Heart of Town': Planning and Contesting the Nation's Widest Streets in Georgia's Fall Line Cities," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 104, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 286-322.

"'Curating Kisumu' and 'Curating East Africa': Digital History, Academic Collaboration, and Public Engagement in the Digital Age" (with Meshack Owino), History in Africa, 47 (June 2020): 327-357.

"Jewish Suburbanization and Jewish Presence in 'The City without Jews,'"Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community. Ed. Sean Martin and John Grabowski. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 162-182.

"'The Best Things in Life Are Here' in the 'The Mistake on the Lake': Narratives of Decline and Renewal in Cleveland." Journal of Urban History 41, no. 6 (November 2015): 1091-1117.

"A $35 Million 'Hole in the Ground': Metropolitan Fragmentation and Cleveland's Unbuilt Downtown Subway," Journal of Planning History 14, no. 3 (August 2015): 179-203.

"Acropolis of the Middle-West: Decay, Renewal, and Boosterism in Cleveland's University Circle," Journal of Planning History 10, no. 1 (February 2011): 30-58.

"Suburban Swamp: The Rise and Fall of Planned New-Town Communities in New Orleans East," Planning Perspectives 23, no. 2 (April 2008): 197-219.

"The Disneyfication of New Orleans: The French Quarter as Façade in a Divided City," Journal of American History 94, no. 3 (December 2007): 804-811.

"Into the Big League: Conventions, Football, and the Color Line in New Orleans," Journal of Urban History 29, no. 6 (September 2003): 694-725.

"Making 'America's Most Interesting City': Tourism and the Construction of Cultural Image in New Orleans, 1940-1984," in Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South. Ed. Richard D. Starnes. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003, 114-137.

"Making the 'Birthplace of Jazz': Tourism and Musical Heritage Marketing in New Orleans," Louisiana History 44, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 39-73.
- Reprinted in Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr., ed., Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Vol. XIV: New Orleans and Urban Louisiana (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2005).
- Adapted in Janet Allured and Michael S. Martin, eds., Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 291-314.



Review Essays

"Down South in/of Dixie: Rethinking the Tourist South," Reviews in American History 43, no. 1 (March 2015): 116-125.

"Building and Rebuilding New Orleans: Nature, Artifice, and Transformation," Journal of Planning History 6, no. 4 (November 2007): 338-352.

"In the Shadow of the Suburban Dream: Black Struggles on the Urban Fringe," Reviews in American History 33, no. 4 (December 2005): 594-600.

"Landscapes of Leisure: Building an Urban History of Tourism," Journal of Urban History 30, no. 2 (January 2004): 257-265.



Encyclopedia Essays

"Urban Tourism in the U.S. Since 1800," in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), online.
- Republished as "Tourism and the American City since 1800" in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History, ed. Timothy J. Gilfoyle (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 353-368.

"Urbanization of Leisure" (7500 words), in Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America, Vol.  2, Gary S. Cross, ed. (Westport, CT:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004), 383-91.