He is a member of the Board of Editors of Historical Methods and the author of « Child Murder in New England» which appeared in the Spring 2001 issue of Social Science History, and « Spousal Murder in Northern New England, 1776-1865 » which appeared in C. Daniels and M. V. Kennedy (eds.), Over the Threshold : Intimate Violence in Early America (Routledge, 1999). He is completing an interregional study of violent crime and violent death in the United States, titled « Why Northern New Englanders Seldom Commit Murder : How America Became a Homicidal Nation». The author thanks the National Science Foundation (Grant SBR-9808050) for its support.