Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in teh Urban West, 1846-1906, University of Kansas Press, 2007.

Cultural Frontiers: Stories of Nation & Empire in the Urban West. Forthcoming, University of Nevada Press.

"Western Living Sunset Style in the 1920s and 30s: The Middlebrow, The Modern, and The Civilized.” The Western Historical Quarterly, 37:2 (Summer 2006), 133-157.

“Chinatown’s Tourist Terrain: Representation and Racialization in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco,” American Studies, Vol. 46: No. 2 (Summer 2005); 5-29.

“Identity, History, and Memory at the California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894: Nostalgia and Masculinity at the '49 Mining Camp,” The Public Historian, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Fall 2003); 25-49.