In this op-ed co-authored with Matthew Miller, I highlight the astonishing reality that while our country closely regulates the impact of automobiles on public health and safety, it does not do so for firearms. Why? In 2005, Congress passed an unprecedented law that largely exempts guns from federal consumer-safety laws, Read more…
Following a school shooting in Oregon, I was interviewed on Connecticut Public why guns are not regulated as consumer products like any other that poses a threat to human health. “Our nation’s lax attitude toward gun proliferation is partly the result of a Hollywood version of gun technology…[Specifically, the notion Read more…
In this op-ed, I debunk the conventional picture of the Wild West as a place with rampant gun violence. Contrary to its name, the Wild West was the setting for the passage of some of the nation’s first gun-control laws. In 19th-century frontier towns, people couldn’t just walk around with Read more…
I was featured on a BBC program titled, “The Tichborne Claimant: The Five Photographs that (You Didn’t Know) Changed Everything” in which I discussed how a seemingly mundane photograph can have a lasting and powerful historical impact. I told the story of one such photograph taken in 1865 that changed Read more…
Tucker, “‘Famished for News Pictures’: Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit,” in Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds. Getting the Picture: The History & Visual Culture of the News (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015), pp. 215-220.
From May 15-June 27, 2015, I had a visiting research fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre at The Australian National University, Canberra. It was such an honor to meet Will Christie, Desmond Manderson, Alastair Maclachlan and especially Martyn Jolly, a scholar of phenomenal research on photography and magic lantern and Read more…
In an essay co-authored with Aria Danaparamita, I write about the decision by the British Museum to lend Russia one of the most esteemed vestiges of Western art and civilization: the Parthenon marbles. We explore the long-standing role of art in cross-cultural negotiations and political dialogue. Read more in The Read more…
I write about the FBI’s use of state-of-the-art facial recognition technology in its Next Generation Identification System, the world’s biggest biometric database. The new system has come under fire from privacy rights advocates who fear that federal databases will eventually be cross-referenced against other data, connecting faces to medical, financial, Read more…
The Gothic cathedral and the Victorian railway terminus both served as primary focal points of artistic and engineering activity. Photography’s history in the first century after its invention in 1839 offers a record of the railway station’s importance as a new source of photographic collaboration, and a window through which Read more…
