Books
Boredom is the Enemy: the Imaginative and Intellectual Worlds of Australian Soldiers at War Ashgate, 2012
The Making of Public Historical Culture in the American West, 1880-1910: the Role of Historical Societies Edwin Mellen, Lewiston, New York, 2006
Diggerspeak: The Language of Australians at War Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2005
Convict Words: The Language of the Australian Convict Era Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002
Chapters in books/anthologies
‘Books for the World: the United States and Book and Library Programs in the Developing World, 1946-68’ in Catherine Turner and Greg Barnhisel (eds) Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda and the Cold War University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2010, pp. 126- 144.
‘Australian Soldiers and the World of Print during the Great War’ in M.E. Hammond and S. Towheed (eds.) Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book HistoryPalgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007, pp. 93-109
‘Historical Organizations’ in M. Spongberg, A. Curthoys and B. Caine (eds.) Companion to Women’s Historical WritingPalgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, 2005, pp. 249-252
‘The United States of America’ in M. Spongberg, A. Curthoys and B. Caine (eds.) Companion to Women’s Historical WritingPalgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, 2005, pp. 259-271
Articles
‘UNESCO and the Globalization of the Public Library Idea’ Library and Information History (accepted for publication, forthcoming 2013)
‘Writing the North-West, Past and Present: the 1930s fiction and drama of Henrietta Drake-Brockman’ History Australia (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2011).
‘The Creation of a Global Modern Publishing Culture in the Cold War: Franklin Book Programs, Translation, and Modernization in the Developing World, 1952-1968’ Princeton University Library Chronicle Vol. 71, No. 2 (Winter 2010) pp. 168-186.
with Adele Nye, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Jill Roe, Penny Russell, Mark Peel, Desley Deacon and Paul Kiem ‘Historical thinking in Higher Education: Staff and student perceptions of the nature of historical thinking’ History Australia Vol. 6, No. 3 (December 2009)
‘‘An Inalienable Right to Read’: Unesco’s Promotion of a Universal Culture of Reading and Public Libraries, and Its Involvement in Africa 1948-1968’ English in Africa 35 No. 1. (May 2008) pp. 67-88
‘Finding “Another Great World”: Australian Soldiers and Wartime Libraries’, Library Quarterly Vol. 76, No. 4, October 2006, pp. 420-437 (special edition ‘Retrieving Readers: the Library Experience’) pp. 420-437
‘Australian Slang and the Experience of War’ Eucalypt 3 (2004) pp. 76-86
‘Keeper of Histories: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library and Its Cultural Work, 1860-1910’ Libraries and the Cultural Record [formerly Libraries and Culture] (Winter 2004) pp. 13-35
‘The Politics of Language in Convict Australia’ Journal of Australian Colonial History (July 2003) pp. 17-40
‘Patriotism and the Past: The Cultural Work of the Wisconsin Semi-centennial Celebrations, 1898’ Australasian Journal of American Studies Vol. 20, No. 1 (July 2001) pp. 41-54
‘Empowering African-American Manhood, Empowering African-American Politics: The Quest of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1890-1920’ Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, Volume 6 (2000) pp. 12-24 Winner Iain Brash Prize, Best Postgraduate Essay, 2000
‘George Himes, F.G. Young and the Early Years of the Oregon Historical Society’ Oregon Historical Quarterly Vol. 101, No.1 (Spring 2000) pp.18-39
‘Making a Unique Heritage: Historical Celebrations in Kansas, 1900-1920’ Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains Vol. 23, No.3 (Autumn 2000) pp. 172-185
‘History, Memory and the Landscape: Historical Consciousness and Conquest in the American West, 1870-1920’ New Directions: Postgraduate Conference – Proceedings, Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History
Other articles, entries, multimedia projects and reviews
‘The Wartime Correspondence of a Mother and Daughter: Roberta Jull and Henrietta Drake-Brockman’, The National Library Magazine (September 2012)
‘Publishing, Print Culture, and Australian English’, Ozwords, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2012)
Review of Wallace G. Lewis In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark: Early Commemorations and the Origins of the National Historic Trail in Kansas History (2011).
Review of Deloria and Salisbury (eds.) A Companion to American Indian History in Australasian Journal of American Studies Vol 25, No 2 (December 2006)
Review of Graham Seal Inventing Anzac: the Digger and National Mythology in Coppertales: A Journal of the Rural Arts No. 10 (2006)
‘Glossary’ and several entries in J. Ciment (ed.) Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History M.E. Sharpe, 2006
Numerous entries in J.G. Ryan and Leonard Schlup (eds.) Historical Dictionary of the 1940s M.E. Sharpe, 2006
‘Entries ‘Japanese-Americans’, ‘American Indian Movement’, and ‘USS Maine’ Encyclopedia of American Conspiracy Theories, ABC-Clio, 2003
‘Aussie Magazine and the Making of Digger Culture during the Great War’ National Library of Australia News (November 2003)
‘“This Utopian Land of the Pacific” A Glimpse into the National Library of Australia’s Canadiana Collection’ National Library of Australia News (July 2003)
Entries in the Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age, edited by Leonard Schlup and James Ryan, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003
‘War Words on the Web’ Ozwords (June 2003)
‘The Language of Botany Bay’ Footsteps: Port Macquarie and Districts Family History Society Newsletter February 2003
‘An Annotated Edition of A.G. Pretty’s “Glossary of Slang and Peculiar Terms in Use in the A.I.F.”’ <http:www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/ First%20page.html> Put online November 2002
‘Botany Bay Argot’ Ozwords (December 2002)
‘Lags and Lashes: The Vocabulary of Convict Australia, 1788-1850’ National Library of Australia News (July 2002)
‘Race and Manliness’ in Gerald Horne and Mary Young (eds.) WEB Du Bois: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 2001
Kentucky ResourceLinks CD-Rom; Indiana ResourceLinks CD-Rom, Biographical Entries. Produced by ABC-Clio (Santa Barbara, California)
Review of Valerie J. Matsumato and Blake Allmendinger Over the Edge: Remapping the American West in Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies Volume 6 (2000)
Review of Katherine G. Morrissey Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire in Australasian Journal of American Studies Vol. 18, No 1 (July 1999)