- Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present (Organization of American Historians Bicentennial Essays on the)
- From Slavery to Sharecropping: White Land and Black Labor in the Rural South, 1865-1900 (African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South, 1861-)
- Day of the Jubilee : The Civil War Experience of Black Southerners (African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South, Vol 1)
- To set the law in motion: The Freedmen's Bureau and the legal rights of Blacks, 1865-1868 (KTO studies in American history)
- The Constitution, Law, and American Life: Critical Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Experience