Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War, University of North Carolina Press (2010)
The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861, University Press of Kentucky (1995)
Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, edited with John R. McKivigan University of Tennessee Press (1999)
The African-American Odyssey, with Darlene Clark Hine and William C. Hine, Prentice-Hall (2000)
American Abolitionists, Longman, (2000)
Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865, Louisiana State University Press (2003)
Review of Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865, Journal of Southern History, 70(2), (2002) pages 423-424
The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves, University Press of Kentucky (2004)
Review of The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism
African Americans: A Concise History, with Darlene Clark Hine and William C. Hine, Pearson Prentice Hall (2004)
Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader, editor, Blackwell, (2007)
Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union, Kent State University Press (1986)
He also co-edited the book series “Southern Dissent”, University Press of Florida, (1999 -?)