- Blood on Snow: The Killing of Mary Phagan and the Trial of Leo Frank (1987)
- Harlem's Glory: Black Women Winning the Ivy League in the Era of Title IX (2001)
- Broken Ground: Maryland from Chesapeake to Ocean at the Time of European Contact (2007)
- Passage Through Gettysburg: Armies, Civilians, and Landscapes in Conflict (2014)
- Black Confederates & the Civil War (2020)
Plays:
- Mary Turner of Everett Lynching Trial: Voices & Echoes (2019)