The Rose & the Briar, ed. with Griel Marcus
Major Problems in the Early Republic: 1787-1848
Books
Richard Hofstader: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Library of America series (editor)
360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story
The Age of Reagan
David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (editor)
No Property in Man: Slavery and Anti-Slavery at the Nation’s Founding
The Rise of American Democracy
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class: 1788-1850
Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual, and Politics Since the Middle Ages
Fred W. McDarrah: New York Scenes
Bob Dylan in America
The Politics of Hope and the Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s (foreword)
The Politicians & the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
The Best American History Essays on Lincoln (editor)
Andrew Jackson
The Kingdom of Matthias, with Paul E. Johnson
The Key of Liberty, with Mike Merrill