Media

• Selected Publications
• Interviews & Recorded Talks
• Mentions in the Press

Selected Publications

 

• Making History at 250: A Field Guide for the Semiquincentennial, Report of the American Association for State and Local History, (2021).
• “VOTE – What’s At Stake: LGBTQ+ Rights” Bloom Magazine (October/November 2020).
• “Ways of Interpreting Queer Pasts,” The Public Historian (May 2019).
• “Where the Magic Happened: Historic Homes as Sites of Intimacy.” chapter in Reimagining The Historic House Museum: New Approaches and Proven Solutions, ed. Kenneth C. Turino and Max Van Balgooy, Rowman & Littlefield (2019)
• “Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites,” in LGBTQ Preservation and Place: Historic Preservation by and for LGBTQ Communities in the United States, ed. Megan Springate and Katherine Crawford-Lackey, Berghann Books (2019).
• “Beyond the Bar: Types of Properties Related to LGBTQ History,” Change over Time, v. 8, no. 2.
• “Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites,” National Historic Landmarks Theme Study in LGBTQ History, National Park Service, (2016).
• “Sitting In, Speaking Out: Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Homophile Movement,” Pennsylvania Legacies (June 2016).
• “Dewey’s Lunch Counter Sit-In,” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2016).
• “Award Winner Spotlight,” History@Work (March 2016).
• “The Expanding Conversation,” Queering the Museum (April 2015).
• Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, Rowman & Littlefield (2015).
• “Lifting Our Skirts: Sharing the Sexual Past with Visitors,” Public Historian Online Content (July 2014).
• “Into the Mainstream: Interpreting GLBT History,” co-written with Kenneth Turino, AASLH History News (Fall 2012).
• Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly-Engaged Academic Historian, Joint Report of the American Historical Association, the National Council on Public History, and the Organization of American Historians, plus white paper, 2010.
• “Consumers,” chapter in The Jazz Age, ed. Mitchell Newton (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2009).

Interviews & Recorded Talks

• “Revealing Queer Lives: Connecticut’s LGBTQ History” Grating the Nutmeg podcast (June 2024).
• “Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month,” Grating the Nutmeg podcast (June 2024).
• “Communicating the Value of Inclusive History,” episode 4, Reframing History podcast (May 2022).
• “Was Abe Lincoln Gay? Public Historian Brings LGBTQ Past to Light,” by Susan Brackney, Bloom Magazine (February/March 2020).
• “Preserving LGBTQ Historic Sites with Susan Ferentinos,” PreserveCast podcast (March 2018).
• “Historic Preservation as a Green Alternative,” Standing Room Only, WFHB Radio (4 September 2014).
• “The Buskirk-Chumley: Bloomington’s Community Theater at 90,” ArtWorks, Indiana Public Media (7 August 2012).

Mentions in the Press

• Local historian appointed to Smithsonian Advisory Board. Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader (25 February, 2026).
• Port Townsend historian appointed to Smithsonian board by Elijah Sussman. Peninsula Daily News (21 February, 2026).
• “Washington Historian Authors Nominations for Two LGBTQ+ Landmark Sites,” by Laura Johnson. Seattle Gay News (31 August 2024).
• “Will the Slowe-Burrill House Become a National Landmark?” by CJ Higgins. Washington (DC) Blade (21 December 2023).
• “DC’s Lesbian Furies House Under Consideration for National Historic Landmark,” by Lou Chibbaro Jr. Washington (DC) Blade (8 November 2023).
• Preservationists Work to Amplify the Historical Significance of LGBTQ Spaces by Huanja Zhang. Baltimore Magazine (1 July, 2021).
• Queer Spaces Project aims to protect and preserve Philly’s LGBTQ+ history by Sebastian Fortino. Pennsylvania Capital-Star (25 April, 2021).
• “Environmental Sustainability Also Applies to Buildings,” by Lauren Slavin. Bloomington (IN) Herald Times (6 September 2014).
• “Untold Stories,” by Rona March. National Parks (Summer 2014).
• “Women’s History and the National Park Service,” by Debbie Ann Doyle. Perspectives on History: A Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (March 2013).