- The Free and the Unfree: A Progressive History of the United States
- Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing
- The End of American History: Democracy, Capitalism, and the Metaphor of Two Worlds in Anglo-American Historical Writing, 1880-1980
- The Restless Centuries: A History of the American People
- Twentieth Century Limited: A History of Recent America