- When the New Wine Ferments (1941)
- One City and Many Men: The Detroit Story (1955)
- The Rising Generation: A Study in American Education (1959)
- The Birth of Detroit (1978)
- Triumph of the West: Detroit's Winning of the Old Northwest (1984)
- America's First Western Frontier (1990)
- Detroit: Then and Now (1992)
- The Last Hurrah: Detroit's Last Bid for Greatness (1996)
Short stories
- "The House on the Hill" (1939)
- "The Man Who Came Back" (1940)
- "The Girl in the Red Dress" (1941)
- "The Old Man's Story" (1942)
- "The Last Christmas Tree" (1943)