- *Sport and Its Histories: A Reader* (2005)
- *Body and Soul in America* (2010)
- *The American Football Encyclopedia* (2012)
- *Crossing the Line: Intercollegiate Athletics and Black Student Protest in the South, 1890-1930* (2014)
- *Beyond the Gridiron: The Black College Football Experience, 1890-1970* (2016)
- *Why Are We Here?: Black Intellectuals and Civic Life in Urban America, 1900-1940* (2020)
Edited Books
- *From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Experience* (2003)
- *African American History: A Primary Source Reader* (2008)
- *The South in the American Imagination: Civic and Cultural Memory in the South* (2010)
- *The Cambridge Companion to American Sports History* (2011)
- *The Routledge Companion to African American Art History* (2020)
Articles and Book Chapters
- "The 'Negro Problem' and the Rise of Intercollegiate Athletics in the American South, 1890-1930" (2002)
- "African American Sports History and the Construction of Black Masculinity" (2003)
- "Sport, Race, and American Culture: A Historical Perspective" (2004)
- "Black Power and the Student Athlete: The North Carolina A&T State University Football Team and the 1969 Black Student Protest Movement" (2005)
- "The Black College Football Experience: Race, Sport, and Higher Education in the United States, 1890-1970" (2006)
- "From 'Gentleman' Scholar-Athletes to Militant 'Revolutionaries': Black College Football Players and the Black Student Movement, 1960-1970" (2007)
- "Sport and the Construction of Race and Identity in the United States" (2008)
- "The History of Black College Football: A Legacy of Excellence" (2009)
- "Black Athletes and the Olympics: A History of Triumph and Tragedy" (2010)
- "The Black Intellectual Tradition and Civic Life in the United States, 1900-1940" (2011)
Other Works
- "The African American Experience in Sport: A Chronology" (2003)
- "The Encyclopedia of African American History" (2006)
- "The Oxford Handbook of African American History" (2011)
- "The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed" (2012)
- "Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century" (2015)