* “The Trump Administration has a Lot to Learn about African American History. Here’s a Reading List” by Valerie Strauss The Washington Post March 7, 2017
* Quoted in article, “Slavery Bill gets Mixed Reviews,” Daily Hampshire Gazette October 19, 2009
* Quoted in article “Hunger for History as Civil War’s 150th Approaches,” Richmond News Times-Dispatch, April 25, 2009
* Quoted in article on “Abraham Lincoln’s Great Awakening: From Moderate to Abolitionist,” US News & World Report February 9, 2009
* Quoted in article on “Lincoln’s Love of Language,” Brattleboro Reformer, February 3, 2009
* Interview and Graduate Seminar Featured on Presidential Elections, “History Lessons: UMass Students of Slavery Assess Tuesday Victory,” Daily Hampshire Gazette November 2, 2008
* Quoted in “DNA evidence linking African Americans and Africans,” The Boston Globe April 24, 2000, Springfield Union News, April 25, 2000, The Times of London, April 26, 2000