- The Supreme Court: An Essential History
- The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
- Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America
- Reading and Writing American History: An Introduction to the Historian's Craft, Volume 1
- To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858--1891










