Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860 (American Century)

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)

The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America

School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

Experience And Education (Kappa Delta Pi Lecture)

The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis