He is the author of Love and Death in the Great War (2018) and The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era (2008). His work has appeared in academic journals including the Journal of American History, Film and History, The Sixties, American Studies, and Journalism History. With Alan Brinkley and John Giggie, he is also a coauthor of the textbook The Unfinished Nation (8th edition, 2016).