[2] He co-curated the museum's award-winning core exhibition, and helped to shape the media experiences and public programs.
[4] Mead's doctoral dissertation, Melancholy Landscapes: Writing Warfare in the American Revolution, was written under Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and read by Jill Lepore, and draws on the diaries of 169 Revolutionary Army soldiers.
In 2014, Mead rediscovered and authenticated George Washington's silk shoulder ribbon in the Harvard University collections.
[9] In 2017, Mead discovered the only known period image of General George Washington's Revolutionary War tent in the field.
[10] In 2019, he led the team that discovered poll lists featuring the names of women and Black men who voted in New Jersey in the years following the Revolutionary War.