- English in America: A Radical View of the Profession (1976)
- Politics of Letters (1987)
- The Making of the American Mind: Intellectuals and Ideas in a Democratic Culture (1988)
- Literacy and Language (1989)
- English in America: A Concise History (1996)
-Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century (1997)
-Making of the American Mind, Second Edition (1998)
-Critical History of American Literature, Two Volumes, Second Edition (2000)
-College English: Rhetorical Choices, Rhetorical Differences, Third Edition (2001)
-Critical Literacy Reader, Second Edition (2001)
-Teaching About Class: Essays and Resources (2003)
-Critical American Studies (2004)
-Critical Literacy Reader, Third Edition (2004)
-Contemporary Cultural Studies (2005)
-College English: Rhetorical Choices, Rhetorical Differences, Fourth Edition (2005)
-Teaching About Class, Second Edition (2006)
-Critical American Studies: Key Concepts and New Directions (2007)
-Critical Literacy Reader, Fourth Edition (2008)
-College English: Rhetorical Choices, Rhetorical Differences, Fifth Edition (2009)
-Teaching About Class, Third Edition (2009)
-Critical American Studies, Second Edition (2010)
-Critical Literacy Reader, Fifth Edition (2011)
-College English: Rhetorical Choices, Rhetorical Differences, Sixth Edition (2013)
-Teaching About Class, Fourth Edition (2013)
-Critical American Studies: Key Concepts and New Directions, Second Edition (2014)
-Critical Literacy Reader, Sixth Edition (2015)
-College English: Rhetorical Choices, Rhetorical Differences, Seventh Edition (2017)
-Teaching About Class, Fifth Edition (2017)
-Critical American Studies, Third Edition (2018)
-Critical Literacy Reader, Seventh Edition (2019)
-College English: Rhetorical Choices, Rhetorical Differences, Eighth Edition (2021)
-Teaching About Class, Sixth Edition (2021)
-Critical American Studies: Key Concepts and New Directions, Third Edition (2022)
Articles and Essays:
- "Literature as Class Commodity" (1976)
- "Ideology of Schooling: The Hidden Curriculum" (1978)
- "English: The Politics of Pluralism" (1979)
- "The Politics of Literary Criticism" (1980)
- "Literacy and Schooling" (1982)
- "The American Mind: A Social History" (1990)
- "The Culture Industry: A Reconsideration" (1992)
- "Class and Literacy" (1993)
- "Intellectual Work in the Age of Corporations" (1994)
- "The New American Literacy" (1995)
- "The Future of English Studies" (1996)
- "The Crisis of the Humanities" (1997)
- "The University and the Class System" (1998)
- "The Left and the Cultural Wars" (1999)
- "The Crisis of American Literary Studies" (2000)
- "The State of the American University" (2001)
- "The Future of American Studies" (2002)
- "The Politics of Cultural Studies" (2003)
- "The New American Literature" (2004)
- "The University and the War on Terror" (2005)
- "The Crisis of American Education" (2006)
- "The Future of the American Left" (2007)
- "The Obama Presidency: A Critical Assessment" (2008)
- "The Crisis of American Democracy" (2009)
- "The Future of American Literature" (2010)
- "The University and the Occupy Movement" (2011)
- "The Crisis of American Culture" (2012)
- "The Future of American Studies" (2013)
- "The Obama Presidency: A Second Critical Assessment" (2014)
- "The Crisis of American Higher Education" (2015)
- "The Future of American Democracy" (2016)
- "The Trump Presidency: A Critical Assessment" (2017)
- "The Crisis of American Identity" (2018)
- "The Future of American Literature" (2019)
- "The University and the Covid-19 Pandemic" (2020)
- "The Crisis of American Society