In 2019, I published a revised edition of Ambitious Brew. Revised, not updated. I cleared fluff, reorganized two chapters, added a preface, and, HOORAH!, the ebook notes are clickable. It’s soooo cool: Click the note. It opens! Tap the screen anywhere. It closes!
In Meat We Trust was published in 2013 (a revised edition is in progress).
Key West: History of an Island of Dreams came out in 2003.
Frankly, I'm too lazy to do/say much about book number one, All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890. It was my "tenure" book, written when I was still a university professor. You can find it here. (It's enough to know that it's a scholarly monograph [grab your dictionary or mouse/tracker], written for other academics. In a "which one of these is not like the others" test, the plumbing book would be the "not like the others" item.)
I prefer to write books -- long projects that take several years to research and write. I’ve published shorter pieces but I can’t remember the last time I did so. Some are listed below.
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Short “Published” Pieces
"Don't Like the American Way of Meat? Blame That First Thanksgiving Meal," Time.com, November 28, 2013
"Riots, Rage, and Resistance: A Brief History of How Antibiotics Arrived on the Farm," ScientificAmerican.com, September 3, 2012
"A Century Before the Lab-Grown Burger, This Chemist Imagined 'Toothsome' Manufactured Food," Slate.com, August 7, 2103
"What Revolution?" All About Beer, September 2009 (not available online)
This Bud's for the Age of Obama Washington Post, August 2, 2009 (Note: The online version was titled "The Racial Politics of Beer.)
"Toast the Constitution and the Work to Save It," Philadelphia Inquirer, December 5, 2008
75 Years After the Repeal of Prohibition, We’re Still Captives of the ‘Dry’ Crusade US News.com, December 4, 2008
Farewell -- and Thanks: Why the Busch Family Mattered Modern Brewery Age, October 2008
The Belgians Want Bud? I'll Drink to That Washington Post, July 6, 2008.
The Day the Beer Flowed Again Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2008.
The Perils and Pleasures of Going 'Popular'; Or, My Life As a Loser Historically Speaking March/April 2007
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General Blog Series/Essays
Pink Slime: (More) History and A Dollop of Sermonizing, Parts 1-5
The Politics of Food & the Historian's Work: Where the Twain Shall Meet, Parts 1-3
"What Revolution?": The Outtakes, Parts 1-3
The Problem with Pollan[ism]; Or, Why Simplistic Thinking Won't Solve the "Food Crisis"
Is This the Dawning of the Age of . . . E-Quarius?, Parts 1-5
Historians and the Preservation of Newspaper Content, Parts 1-4
A Historian At Work: Using Facts to Build "Stories," Parts 1-5
Historical Significance and the Election of 2008, Parts 1-2
History and the American Economy: Where Have We Been? Where Should We Go?, Parts 1-5
Looking Back At the Future of Brewing, Parts 1-5
A-B InBev, History, and American Brewing, Parts 1-6
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The "First Draft Follies" Series
The "Women's Crusade" of the 1870s, Parts 1-3
Music and the "New" Beer, c. 1970, Parts 1-2
Early History of the American Homebrewers Association and the Brewers Association, Parts 1-9
Budweiser, Baseball, and . . . Communism, Parts 1-4
"Kids," Beer, and the 1960s, Parts 1-8
The "Dry" Assault on American Brewing, 1916, Parts 1-3
Larry McCavitt and the Campaign for Real Ale
The Founding of the American Homebrewers Association, Parts 1-6