Field of Study

Modern American History; Immigration, Ethnicity, & Labor

Selected Publications

Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Garden in the Grasslands: Boomer Literature of the Central Great Plains.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971.