Publications

Heinz History Center

Ma Baker: Pittsburgh’s First Airline Caterer

The First Black Pilot Was From Pittsburgh

From Pittsburgh Pilot to Buffalo Soldier: The Adventures of Charles Wesley Peters

  • Western Pennsylvania History Magazine, Summer 2025

Breaking Barriers and Soaring Into History: Pittsburgh’s ‘Three Helens’ During the Golden Age of Aviation

Heinz History Center/Smithsonian Voices collaboration, 19 August 2025

The Dawn of Aviation as Drawn by Pittsburgh Cartoonist Cy Hungerford

Bettis: Where Pittsburgh Aviation Took Off

Book by Brian Butko and Sue Morris, December 2024

Where Were Pittsburgh’s Christmas Monorails?

Romper Bomper Stomper Boo

Western Pennsylvania History Magazine, Fall 2023

Romper Room: A Look at Pittsburgh’s Playful Preschool

Santa Claus Had a Sidekick in Pittsburgh

The Frick Pittsburgh

Blog, 2019-2021. Click underlined titles for hyperlinks

Henry Clay Frick: Partying with the Presidents

Henry Clay Frick: The Art of Politics and the Politics of Art

That Diligent and Devastating Force: Disease and Illness in Gilded Age Pittsburgh

Gilded Age Philanthropy: Helen Clay Frick’s “Christmas Treats”

Pittsburgh’s Gilded Age Conservatories

The Fricks Take a Trip: The Baths of Baden-Baden

Allegheny County Library Association’s American Girl Doll Lending Library

Researched and wrote narratives on behalf of Heinz History Center for brochures describing Pittsburgh in each circulating American Girl doll’s canon historical period.

  • In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman, March 2021
  • Character Sacrifices in the House of Niccolo series: Godsalc, September 2020
  • Torre dell’Orologio, March 2017
  • The Hesdin Incident, September 2016

L’Ambassade D’Auvergne, essay
John Donohue, editor and artist, Abrams Books, March 2021

Blog, 2011