Selected Clips

Image depicts ceiling of Cafe des Phares in Paris.

Time (2025), The 1930s Case That Sparked a Debate About Deportation

Time (2024), Frances Perkins Was the First Woman to Serve in a U.S. Presidential Cabinet. It’s No Coincidence She’s Having A Moment

Time (2023), The Classic Christmas Movie That Offers a Lesson About Antisemitism in America

Contingent (2025), How Rebecca Brenner Graham Does History

Contingent (2019), No Refuge

Slate (2025), Climb Not One Mountain

Slate (2022), Why the Philosophers Libertarians Love Always Come Out Worse for Wear

Ms. (2025), ‘What Do We Call You?’ The Many Names of Frances Perkins

Jewish Women’s Archive (2025), Frances Perkins and the Antisemitic Conspiracy That Never Faded

Jewish Women’s Archive (2023), Review: “The Jews of Summer” by Sandra Fox

Jewish Women’s Archive (2022), A Better Hanukkah Movie, With Plenty of Room for Improvement

Jewish Women’s Archive (2020), Review: Rachel Bloom’s ‘I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are’

Jewish Women’s Archive (2020), I Can Be A Jewish Feminist and Change My Name

White House Historical Association (2024), Frances Perkins: Breaking Glass Ceilings in the Cabinet  

Nursing Clio (2023), Why the First Woman Matters: Traversing Barriers in the Archives 

The Washington Post (2023), Pitting religious freedom against Sunday mail goes back to the founding

The Washington Post (2022), Politicians have long courted Jews, even as antisemitism abounds

The Washington Post (2021), Attacking Sunday voting is part of a long tradition of controlling Black Americans

The Washington Post (2019), The woman behind Elizabeth Warren’s blueprint for the presidency

The Washington Post (2019), Women’s colleges should admit trans students. It’s wholly consistent with their mission

The Washington Post (2018), How to stop President Trump’s latest attack on immigrants

Los Angeles Review of Books (2022), French Cigarettes and a Lot of Coffee: On Skye C. Cleary’s ‘How to Be Authentic

Commonplace: journal of early American life (2022), New Seats at the Tea Party

USIH (2022), “Footprints and Sensible Things” Rebecca Brenner Graham on Samantha Rose Hill’s Hannah Arendt

USIH (2018), Why My Jewish Family Celebrates Christmas 

USIH (2018), Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War

Perspectives on History (2021), Hustling to Get By: Side Jobs in Graduate School

Oral History Review Blog (2021), Using Oral History to Preserve Space for Individual Traumas within the Collective Tragedy of September 11th