"John Heisman vs. the Amateur Sport: Gamesmanship in a Gentlemanly Sport," North American
Society for Sports History, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, May 2006.
"Fighting Whiskey and Immorality at Auburn': The Politics of Southern Football, 1919-1927,"
Southern Cultures, 2005.
"Intersectional Football in an Era of Sectional Reconciliation, 1900-1917", North
American Society for Sport History Conference, Monterrey, CA, May 2004.
"Turning the Tide: Football and Southern Progressivism" and "Bear Bryant: Symbol for
an Embattled South", in Patrick B. Miller (ed.), The Sporting World of the Modern South (University of Illinois Press, 2002).
"George Denny, Intercollegiate Football, and the Institutional Modernization of the
University of Alabama, 1912-1934", North American Society for Sport History, May,
2002.
"Machine-Made Time for a Machine Age Sport: Football and Modern Time Consciousness,
1880-1930," American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January, 1998.
"Foolish and Useless Sport: The Southern Evangelical Crusade Against Intercollegiate
Football", Journal of Sport History, 1997.
"Turning the Tide: College Football and Southern Progressivism", Southern Cultures, 1997.
Presented "Global History of Textile Workers,1650-2000" at the conference of the International
Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Holland, 2004.
"The Peasant-Worker Nexus," roundtable participant, Annual Conference of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (Institutional Effectiveness), Pittsburgh,
November 2002.
"The Workers' Task: Worker Activists' Attitudes toward Intelligentsia Leadership in
Ivanovo-Voznesensk, 1895-1904, " The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, pending revisions.
Book review of Laura L. Phillips, Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1919, in Canadian-American Slavonic Studies (forthcoming).
"Murder by Crowd, or, the Death of a Factory Director," conference paper, Institutional
EffectivenessS, Denver, November, 2000.
"The Pogrom as Protest: Towards a Theory of the Pogrom as an Instrument of Popular
Power," conference paper, Spring Meeting of the Southern Conference of Slavic Studies,
Wilmington, N.C., March 2000.
"The Saints of the Revolution: Political Activists in 1890s Ivanovo-Voznesensk and
the Path of Most Resistance," Slavic Review 54, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 276-304.
With Susan R. Silverman, Immigration in the American South 1864-1895: A Documentary History of the Southern
Immigration Conventions. The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 2006.
With Samuel N. Thomas, Jr., and Beverly D. Evans, IV, Shanks: The Life and Wars of General Nathan George Evans, C.S.A. De Capo Press, New York, NY, 2002.
With Judith A. Andrews, South Carolina: Then and Now. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, S.C., 2001.
With Samuel N. Thomas Jr., "A Rising Star of Promise:" The Civil War Odyssey of David Jackson Logan, 17th South
Carolina Infantry, 1861-1864. Savas Publishing Company, Campbell, CA, 1998. [Nominated for the Museum of the Confederacy's
Founder's Award.]
With W. Martin Hope, Relief and Recovery in Post Civil War South Carolina: A Death by Inches. The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1997.
The Peopling of America: A Synoptic History. Americans All: A National Education Program, Beltsville, MD, 1994, rev. ed., 1995.
America Before 1877: A Synoptic History. McGraw-Hill Book Co., NY,NY, 1989, rev. ed., 1993
Unwelcome Guests: Canada West's Response to American Fugitive Slaves, 1800-1865. Associated Faculty Press, Millwood, NY, 1985. [Nominated for the Anisfield-Wolf
and the Albert Corey (AHA/CHA) Book Prizes; French language edition published by Editions
Nouvelle Optique, Montreal, Quebec.]
"Latin American Social Movements and a New Left Consensus? Regional Challenges to
U.S. Military, Imperialism and Neo-liberal Globalization in a Global Context" (with
Dr. Disney), American Political Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.
"Grassroots Movements and Witnesses For Peace: Challenging U.S. Policies in Latin
America in the Post-Cold War Era", Peace and Change, 2004.
"The Peace Movement in Latin America since the End of Cold War", Society for Historians
of American Foreign Relations Conference, University of Texas, Austin, 2004.
Radical Journalists, Generalists Intellectuals and Good Neighbors: Rediscovering the
History of United States Latin American Relations (Edwin Mellon Press, 2001)."Cuba: Scenes from a Postmodern Revolution", Peace History
Society Conference, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, April,
2000.
"Cuba's Special Period", Conference on the Americas, Armstrong Atlantic State University,
Savannah, Georgia, April, 1999.
"Radical Journalists, Generalist Intellectuals and Good Neighbors: Reconsidering the
Historiography of United States-Latin American Relations", The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, 1998.
"Alternative U.S. Intellectuals and Cuba: Reevaluating the Historiography of U.S.-Latin
American Relations", Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June, 1997.
"Adventures, Journalists, Historians, Unorthodox Missionary-Scholars and the Good
Neighbor Policy of the 1930's", The Southern Historical Association, Little Rock,
Arkansas, October/November, 1996.