His writing has appeared in Common-place, Early American Studies, Reviews in American History, Slate Magazine, and The William and Mary Quarterly. His research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, Harvard University's International Seminar in the History of the Atlantic World, the John Carter Brown Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Mystic Seaport Museum. He has also served as a consultant for the Museum of the City of New York and the New York branch of the National Museum of the American Indian. Previously, he taught at Syracuse University and was a long-term fellow at the New-York Historical Society.