“Remembering and Forgetting the Great Horse Flu of 1872-1873.” Modern American History 8 (March, 2025), 108-114.

“Influenza’s Progress: The Great Epizootic Flu of 1872-’73 in the U.S. West.” Utah Historical Quarterly 89 (Winter 2021), 4-30.

“Dust to Dust:  The Colorado Coal Mine Explosion Crisis of 1910.”  Pages 132-165 in Mining North America:  An Environmental History since 1522, ed. George Vrtis and John McNeil.  Berkeley and Los Angeles:  University of California Press, 2017.

“Beasts of the Southern Wild:  Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States.”  Pages 21-47 in Rendering Nature:  Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics, ed. Marguerite S. Shafer and Phoebe S.K. Young.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

“‘A Single Question that Once Moved Like Light’:  Work, Nature, and History,” in The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, ed. Andrew Isenberg.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2014.

“’Made by Toile’?  Tourism, Landscape, and Labor in Colorado, 1858-1917.”  Journal of American History 92 (December, 2005):  837-863.

“Turning the Tables on Assimilation:  Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920s.”  Western Historical Quarterly 33 (Winter, 2002):  407-430. 

“Tata Atanasio Trujillo’s Unlikely Tale of Utes, Nuevo Mexicanos, and the Settling of Colorado’s San Luis Valley.”  New Mexico Historical Review 75 (January, 2000):  4-41. 

“The Human Costs of an Emerging Industrial Economy:  Coal Mining Disasters in the West.”  Bedford Digital Collections for History:  Primary Sources and Projects.  Released August, 2014. 

“Contemplating Animal Histories:  Politics and Pedagogy across Borders,” Radical History Review 107 (Spring, 2010):  139-165.

“Making Meat:  Efficiency and Exploitation in Progressive Chicago.”  Organization of American Historians Magazine 24 (January, 2010):  37-40.

Flannery Burke and Thomas Andrews.  “The Five Cs of History: Putting the Elements of Historical Thinking into Practice in Teacher Education.” Pp. 151-167 in History Education 101:  The Past, Present, and Future of Teacher Preparation, eds. Wilson J. Warren and D. Antonio Cantu.  Charlotte, N.C.:  Information Age Publishing, 2008. 

⸻. “What Does It Mean to Think Historically?”  Perspectives:  The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (January, 2007):  32-35. 

‍“Ray, George, and Mabel: Friendship, Politics, and the Tragedies of American Liberalism.” Reviews in American History 51 (2023): 177-197.

‍“Burning Truth: The Beginning of the End of Colorado’s Forests.” Colorado Magazine (Winter 2021), https://www.historycolorado.org/story/hindsight-2020/2020/12/28/burning-truth-beginning-end-colorados-forests.

Foreword.  Pages vii-viii in How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet, ed. Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette. Santa Fe:  School of Advanced Research, 2019.

‍“What the Strikers Were Fighting For.”  Colorado Heritage (March/April 2014):  16-21.

“Environmental History Meets the History of the Book:  Bancroft’s Works in Perspective.”  Proceedings of the Bancroft Library Sesquicentennial Symposium, ed. Charles Faulhaber.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2012.

‍“Thomas Andrews on Robert Adams’s New West Landscapes.”  Environmental History 16 (October, 2011):  701-714.

‍“Toward an Environmental History of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s Works:  The Nature and Culture of an Audacious Western Enterprise.”  Southern California Quarterly 93 (Spring, 2011):  33-68.

Review of Whitney Barlow Robles, Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Yale), forthcoming in Reviews in American History.

Review of Sue Consolo-Murphy, The Bears of Grand Teton: A Natural and Cultural History (University of Nebraska Press), in Animal History 2 (2026), 112-113.

“Ending the Coal Age.” Review of Mark Aldrich, The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800-1940 (Johns Hopkins University Press), in Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 25 (2026), 110-112.

Review of Erika Bsumek, The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau (U. Texas Press), in Utah Historical Quarterly 93 (2025), 86-87.

Review of Andrea McDowell, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush (Harvard), in Journal of Social History 57 (2023), 350-352.

Review of Pekka Hämäläinen, Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale), in Journal of American History 108 (2022), 825-825.

Review of Megan Black, The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (Harvard), in Environmental History 26 (2021), 798-800.

Review of Andrew Robichaud, Animal City: The Domestication of America (Harvard), in The History Teacher 54 (2021), 387-389.

“Crude Schisms.” Review of Darren Dochuk, Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (Norton), in Reviews in American History 48 (2020), 180-189.

Review of Daniel Bender, The Animal Game:  Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo (Harvard University Press), in The Journal of Social History 52 (spring, 2019), 945-947.

Review of Mark Lause, The Great Cowboy Strike:  Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West (Verso) in Labor:  Working Class History of the Americas 16 (March, 2019), 185-187.

Review of Dan Flores, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Basic), in Pacific Historical Review 87 (May, 2018), 373-374.

Review of Andrew Downing, Power Lines:  Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Princeton University Press), in Western Historical Quarterly 47 (summer, 2016), 219.

Review of Jen Corrinne Brown, Trout Culture:  How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West (University of Washington Press), Agricultural History 90 (spring, 2016), 267-277.

Review of James Green, The Devil Is Here in These Hills:  West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (Atlantic Monthly Press), in Journal of Southern History 82 (February, 2016), 194-196.

Review of Andrew Scott Johnson, Mercury and the Making of California:  Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840-1890 (University Press of Colorado), in LABOR:  Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (December, 2015), 143-145.

Review of Michael C. Steiner, ed., Regionalists on the Left:  Radical Voices from the American West (University of Oklahoma Press), in Southern California Quarterly 96 (Spring, 2014), 121-123.

Review of Thomas J. Harvey, From Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley:  Making the Modern Old West (University of Oklahoma Press), in Journal of American History 99 (December, 2012), 945-946.

Review of Douglas R. Hurt, The Big Empty:  The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century (University of Arizona Press), in Great Plains Quarterly 32 (Spring, 2012), 146.

Review of Myriam Vuckovic, Voices from Haskell:  Indian Students between Two Worlds, 1884-1928 (University Press of Kansas), in Journal of American Ethnic History 30 (Winter, 2011), 89-91.

Review of Jeffrey A. Johnson, “They Are All Red Out Here”:  Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925, in Journal of the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 9 (October, 2010), 545-547.

Review of David W. Jones, Mass Motorization and Mass Transit:  An American History and Policy Analysis (Indiana University Press), in Journal of American History 96 (September, 2009), 100.

Review of Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land:  Indians and Empires in the Great Basin (Harvard University Press), in Reviews in American History 35 (September 2007), 335-343.

Review of Colin G. Calloway, One Vast Winter Count:  The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press), in Southern California Quarterly, 86 (2005), 405-407.

Review of Louis Warren, ed., American Environmental History (Blackwell Publishing), in Environmental History, 10 (2005), 550-551.

Review of John F. Burns and Richard J. Orsi, eds., Taming the Elephant:  Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California (University of California Press), in Southern California Quarterly 86 (Summer, 2004), 171-172. 

Review of H. Lee Scamehorn, High Altitude Energy:  A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado (University Press of Colorado), in Environmental History 9 (January, 2004), 145-146.

Review of Mark Neumann, On the Rim:  Looking for the Grand Canyon (University of Minnesota Press), in Western Historical Quarterly 31 (Winter, 2000), 496-497.

Review of Earle B. Young, Tracks to the Sea:  Galveston and Western Railroad Development, 1866-1900 (Texas A & M Press), in Business History Review 74 (Winter, 2000):  770-773.