- "From Cradle to Grave: African Americans in the Mississippi Delta" (1994)
- "African American Women in South Carolina: A History" (1997)
- "South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times" (1999)
- "Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Biography" (2004)
- "Black and White Women in the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American History" (2009)
Essays and Articles
- "African American Women and the Suffrage Movement: Recovering Lost Histories" in "Black Studies Today: Beyond Nostalgia and Lamentations" (1994)
- "African Americans and the Civil War" in "A Companion to African-American History" (2005)
- "The South Carolina Woman's Suffrage Movement: A History" (2007)
- "African American Families in the Antebellum South: From Bondage to Freedom" in "The Cambridge Companion to African American History" (2010)
- "The Education of African American Women in the Nineteenth Century" in "A History of African American Women's Education" (2014)
- "Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Reformer and Advocate for African American Women" in "The Palgrave Handbook of African American Women's History" (2020)
Articles in Encyclopedias and Reference Works
- "African American History" in "The Encyclopedia of South Carolina" (2006)
- "Ida B. Wells-Barnett" in "The Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History" (2010)
- "South Carolina Women's Suffrage Movement" in "The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War" (2011)
- "African American Education in the South" in "The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of American History" (2012)
- "African American Women's Activism" in "The Concise Encyclopedia of Women in World History" (2014)
- "Ida B. Wells-Barnett" in "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of African American History" (2015)
Book Reviews
- Review of "The Slave's Narrative" by Frederick Douglass in "Mississippi History Now" (1995)
- Review of "The Peculiar Institution" by Kenneth Stampp in "The Journal of Southern History" (1996)
- Review of "Women in the Civil Rights Movement" by Vicki Crawford and Jacqueline Rouse in "The Journal of American History" (1997)
- Review of "Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century" by William Andrews in "The Journal of African American History" (1998)
- Review of "Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement" by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud in "The Journal of Southern History" (2000)