Press
Kevin regularly speaks with journalists about American history and its connections to the present. His research and public history work have been featured in national and regional media.
2026
L.A. renames Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, founder of L.A.’s First AME Church
Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2026
How Would the Founding Fathers Feel About Modern-Day America?
KERA, July 9, 2026
American Revolution Series Spotlights New History Film Lab
UT Dallas News, June 18, 2026
National Parks Magazine, Winter 2026
University Honors Distinguished Faculty at Investiture Ceremony
UT Dallas News, May 5, 2026
Alumni gift creates first endowed history lecture with renowned speaker
Texas A&M University-San Antonio, January 30, 2026
2023-2025
After Charlie Kirk, Some Historians Troubled by Civil War Parallels
Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2025
Taking Slavery West in the 1850s
JSTOR Daily, April 20, 2024
How an 1864 law set the stage for Arizona court’s abortion ruling
Washington Post, April 10, 2024
Yes, slavery existed in California, historian says
Southern California News Group, May 5, 2023
Don’t tell the tourists: Hollywood’s surprising links to the antebellum South
American Scholar, February 2, 2023
2020-2022
Biddy Mason in Images: A Monumental Life in Monumental Forms
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2021
Hastings Law grapples with its founder’s involvement in Native massacres
New York Times, October 28, 2021
Free Forever: The contentious hearing that made Biddy Mason a legend
LAist, January 6, 2021
New hope for Jewish muralist’s historic work at UCSF
Jewish News, August 12, 2020
A fitting end to the last Confederate monument in Southern California
Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2020
California confronts its racist past as tributes to Confederates and colonizers fall
Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2020
2017
Landmark Cemetery in Los Angeles Removes Confederate Monument
Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2017
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Removes Confederate Monument
LAist, August 16, 2017
Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2017