His most recent publication is "Lynching" in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice His latest book is The Body in the Anglosphere, 1880-1920.
[3] His current research has the working title "The Near Death of a Young Republic: America in War and Rebellion, 1791-94."
He has published related op eds several times in the past months and years in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
He has been interviewed several times on WVXU, Cincinnati's NPR station, on several topics ranging from populism to coffee to the history of land preservation in the U.S.
Born in Washington, D.C., Thurston graduated from high school outside of Cleveland and received his undergraduate education at Northwestern University,[3] studying Russian to complement his history degree.