(2005) Book (w/Loren Schweninger): "In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South". New York: Oxford University Press, .ISBN 0195160878
(1999) Book (w/Loren Schweninger): "Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation". New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195084497
(1961) Book: "Reconstruction After the Civil War". Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226260755
(1987) Book: "From Slavery to Freedom". 6th edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 039456362X
(1986) Biography: "George Washington Williams: A Biography". Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
(1962) Book (ed., w/August Meier): "Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century". Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252008707
(1977) Book: "A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North". Baton Rouge, LA: Lousiana State University Press.
(1967) Book (rf., w/I. Starr): "The Negro in Twentieth-Century America".
(1961) Book (ed., w/Albion Tourgee): "A Fools Errand".
(1969) Book: "Color and Race".
(1947) Book (ed.): "The Civil War Diary of J.T. Ayers".
(1943) Book: "Free Negro in North Carolina".
(1962) Book (ed., w/T.W. Higginson): "Army Life in a Black Regiment".