I am a cultural historian of the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States with wide-ranging interests in the histories of consumer culture; food and alcoholic beverages; capitalism and the senses; and childhood, gender, and the family. My research seeks to understand how goods and practices that were previously regarded as illicit or disreputable achieved mainstream acceptance. My first book, Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century (2004), examines how an array of actors—from advertisers and children’s magazine publishers to child experts, parents, thrift educators, and children themselves—helped to shape the contours of modern consumer society and legitimize a distinctive children’s consumer culture. My new book Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition (2024), asks a deceptively simple question: how did how alcoholic beverages, previously banned under Prohibition, shed their stigmatized pasts and become widely accepted emblems of the American good life? Focusing on the Great Depression and World War II, the book shows how alcohol producers and their allies—a group that included scientists, trade associations, restaurateurs, home economists, cookbook authors, and New Deal planners—linked alcohol to wartime food crusades and new ideas about the importance of pleasure in modern American life.