PORTIONS OF BOOKS, etc.
"Franklin D. Roosevelt," "Harry Hopkins," and "Bonus Army," in The Oxford Companion to United States History (New York: Oxford University Press,
forthcoming).
"One Depression, Two Solutions, 1929-1939," in Richard B. Stolley,
ed., Life: Our Century in Pictures (Boston: Little Brown, 1999).
“They Didn’t March to Free the Slaves,” in Roy L. Brooks, ed.,
When Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human
Injustice (New York: NYU Press, 1999).
"The Great Depression," Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, 1997.
"Women in Genesis," in Anthony Snyder and Sherri West, eds., Readings in
Global History (Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1997)
"Mario Cuomo," in The Reader's Companion to American History, edited by
Eric Foner and John A. Garraty (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991).
"New Deal Cultural Programs and the South," in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture,
edited by Charles R. Wilson and William Ferris. (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1989).
Introduction to a new edition of WPA Federal Writers' Project, Mississippi: A
Guide to the Magnolia State (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988).
"Franklin D. Roosevelt," 20,000 word biographical essay for a three-volume
work, The American Presidents, edited by Frank N. Magill (Pasadena, Calif:
Salem Press, 1986).
"Claude Ramsay, Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi,
1959-1966," in Gary Fink, Leslie Hough and Merl Reed, eds., Southern
Workers and Their Unions, 1880-1972 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1981).