* *New Orleans Jazz: a Picture History* (1947)
* *The Story of New Orleans Dixieland* (1950)
* *The French Tri-colour Over the Texas Lone Star* (1951)
* *Life Story of the Fabulous Creole, Sidney Bechet* (1960)
* *Jazz-West Coast: Some Early Days of Jazz in Los Angeles* (1962)
* *Red River of the North: A Century of Trade, Conflict and River Life Along the Red* (1971)
* *Confederate City: St. Louis in the Civil War* (1976)
Short stories:
* "Old Man River" (1950)
* "The Cajun's Daughter" (1952)
* "The Night of the Big Storm" (1954)
* "The Creole's Lady" (1956)
* "The French Quarter Story" (1958)
Articles:
* "The Jazz Story" (1945)
* "The Story of the Blues" (1946)
* "The Rise of Boogie-Woogie" (1948)
* "The Golden Age of Jazz" (1950)
* "The History of Jazz" (1952)
* "The Creole Jazz Age" (1954)
* "The West Coast Jazz Scene" (1956)
* "The Revival of Jazz" (1958)
* "Jazz in the 1960s" (1960)