PUBLISHED BOOKS:
Imperfect Leadership: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Structures of Power (in progress)
Freedom Summer: Citizenship Supreme: Testimony of Participants, editor, 2014
“We Will Stand Here Till We Die”: Freedom Movement Shakes America, Shapes Martin Luther King Jr. (CreateSpace, 2013)
American Messiah: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Ultimate Journey (Kindle, 2008)
To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mission to Save America, 1955-1968 (HarperCollins, 2004); winner of 2005 Wilbur Award for excellence in communication of religious values, ideas, and themes to a secular audience
Venturing into Usefulness: Selected Papers of Jane Addams, vol. 2, co-editor (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
Birth of a New Age, volume 3 of The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr., lead editor, co- edited with Clayborne Carson et al (University of California Press, 1997)
A People’s Charter: The Pursuit of Rights in America, coauthored with James MacGregor Burns (Knopf, 1991; Vintage, 1993)
Social Movements of the 1960s: Searching for Democracy (Twayne/Simon & Schuster, 1990)
PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS:
“The Legal Lynching of Jeremiah Reeves” (in progress; paper presented to Africana Studies National Conference, Feb. 2016)
“Eulogy for a Soldier of Freedom,” Leadership and the Humanities (March 2015) “Breaking the Silence of the Night: Stop Slavery Now” Sojourners magazine (Feb. 2012)
Review of Derek C. Catsam, Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, in American Historical Review (2010)
Review of Michael K. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign, in Journal of American History (December 2009)
“Montgomery Bus Boycott,” Encyclopedia of Alabama History, 2007 (online)
Review of Kimberly Springer, Living the Revolution, in Journal of American History (June 2006)
“The Gospel of Martin: King’s Messianic Faith,” The Mind’s Eye (Spring 2005)
“America Must Be Born Again,” Sojourners (January 2004)
Contributor, Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle (New York University Press, 2000)
Contributor, Civil Rights in the United States (Macmillan, 2000)
Contributor, Oxford Companion to American Military History (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Review of Francesca Polletta, Democracy Is an Endless Meeting, in Journal of American History (December 2003)
Review of David Halberstam, The Children, in Journal of American History (March 1999)
“A House Still Divided,” Stanford Magazine (January/February 1998)
Review of Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom, in Journal of American History (December 1995)
Review of Robert E. Kuenne, Economic Justice in American Society, in American Historical Review (June 1994)
Review of J. Clay Smith, Jr., Emancipation: The Black Lawyer, 1844-1944, in Journal of American History (June 1994)
“The Changing Political Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” The History Teacher (November 1993)
Contributor, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Carlson, 1993)
“Toward the New South: Dilemmas of Southern Reform before the Second Reconstruction,” Reviews in American History (June 1993)
“Martin Luther King Jr.’s Empowering Legacy,” Tikkun (March 1993)
Review of Mary Ann Glendon, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, in Journal of American History (December 1992)
Review of Oscar Handlin and Lilian Handlin, Liberty in Peril, in American Historical Review (December 1992)
“Freedom & Justice: The Bill of Rights After 200 Years,” Upper & Lower Case (Summer 1992)
“The Wobblies,” with James MacGregor Burns, Constitution (Winter 1992)
“Capacitors and Community: Women Workers at Sprague Electric, 1930-1980,” The Public Historian (Fall 1989)
Review of Alan Wald, The New York Intellectuals, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (Summer 1988)
“We Are Undermining Democracy’s Chances,” The Center Magazine, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (March/April 1985)
FILM AND VIDEO:
Associate Producer and Consultant, “Boycott” (2001), HBO Films dramatic production about the Montgomery bus boycott, based on my book Daybreak of Freedom; winner of the NAACP Image Award, 2001
Writer and producer, “Jim Crow on Trial: Voices from Montgomery,” play and video dramatization about the Montgomery bus boycott, 1996