Books, Sole-authored
Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
Northerners at War: Twenty Years of Reflections on the Civil War Home Front (Kent State University Press, 2010).
America’s Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Receiving Erin’s Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855 (University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (Ivan Dee, 1994).
Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 1990; paperback edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
Books, Editor
Editor, Citizens and Communities (Kent State University Press, 2015).
Co-editor (with Gary Gallagher), The Lens of War: Historians Reflect on their Favorite Civil War Photographs (University of Georgia Press, 2015).
Editor, A Tour of Reconstruction: Anna Dickinson’s 1875 Letters (University of Kentucky Press, 2011).
Editor, Anna E. Dickinson, What Answer? (1868; reprinted by Humanity Books, 2003).
General Editor, The Civil War Chronicle (Agincourt Press, New York, 2000).
Articles in journals and edited collections (selected)
“Regionalism and Urbanism as Problems in Confederate urban history,” in Frank Towers and Andrew Slap, editors, The Urban South During the Civil War Era (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, 2015).
“McClellan and Lincoln Meet at Antietam,” in J. Matthew Gallman and Gary Gallagher, editors, The Lens of War: Historians Reflect on their Favorite Civil War Photographs (University of Georgia Press, 2015).
“The President as Pedagogue: Teaching Citizenship in Time of War,” in Stephen Engle, The War Worth Fighting: Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency and Civil War America (University of Florida Press, 2015).
“What Did Good Citizenship Mean during the Civil War?” in Scott Reynolds Nelson and Carol Sheriff, editors, The American Civil War at Home (Richmond: Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, 2014). Pp. 62-70.
Co-Editor (with Judy Giesberg), special issue on Pennsylvania and the Civil War, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (October 2011).
“‘In Your Hands That Musket Means Liberty’: African American Soldiers and the Battle of Olustee,” in Gary Gallagher and Joan Waugh, editors, Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
“‘Touched With Fire?’: Two Philadelphia Novelists Remember the Civil War,” in James Marten and A. Kristen Foster, editors, More Than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era (Kent State University Press, 2008).
“’Let No Man Prate of Compromise’: Anna Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War,” North and South 9 (October 2006): 32-40.
“Urban History and the American Civil War,” Journal of Urban History 32 (May 2006): 631-642.
“Anna Dickinson and the Election of 1872,” in Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, editors, The Civil War and Memory (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
“Anna Dickinson, America’s Joan of Arc: Public Discourse and Gendered Rhetoric during the Civil War,” in Wendy Gamber, Michael Grossberg and Hendrik Hartog, editors, American Public Life and the Historical Imagination (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).
’Touched With Fire?’ Two Philadelphia Novelists Remember the Civil War. The Frank Klement Lecture, Marquette University, October 2002 (Milwaukee, 2002).
“’An Inspiration to Work’: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Public Orator,” in Joan Cashin, editor, The Experience of War: Civilians in the American Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2002).
“Anna Dickinson: Abolitionist Orator,” in Steven E. Woodworth, editor, The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Scholarly Resources, 2000), pp. 93-110.
“Gettysburg’s Gettysburg: What the Battle did to the Borough” in Gabor Boritt, editor, The Gettysburg Nobody Knows (Oxford University Press, 1997). With Susan Baker.
“The Civil War Economy: A Modern View,” in Stig Forster and Jorg Nagler, eds., On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 (German Historical Institute/Cambridge University Press, 1997). Coauthored with Stanley Engerman.
“Entrepreneurial Experiences in the Civil War: Evidence From Philadelphia,” in Thomas Weiss and Donald Schaefer, eds., Economic Development in Historical Perspective (Stanford University Press, 1994).
“Voluntarism in Wartime: Philadelphia’s Great Central Fair,” in Maris Vinovskis, ed., Toward a Social History of the American Civil War, (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Reprinted in Michael Perman, editor, Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Houghton Mifflin, second edition, 1997).
“Preserving the Peace: Order and Disorder in Civil War Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania History 55 (October 1988), 201-215.
“Relative Ages of Colonial Marriages,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14 (Winter 1984), 609-617.
“Determinants of Age at Marriage in Colonial Perquimans County, North Carolina,” The William and Mary Quarterly 39 (January 1982), 176-191.
“Mortality Among White Males: Colonial North Carolina,” Social Science History 4 (Summer 1980), 295-316.
Publications on Pedagogy
“Service Learning and History: Training the Metaphorical Mind” in Ira Harvaky and Bill Donovan, editors, AAHE Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines: Volume on History and Service Learning (AAHE, Washington, DC, 2000).
“Service Learning and History” in Ilona McGuiness, editor, Service Learning Across the Disciplines: Approaches and Perspectives (Loyola College, 1997).
“Politics and Pedagogy: The Creation of a Gender Studies Minor at a Jesuit College,” Transformations (Fall, 1992), 47-55. Coauthored with Barbara H. Vann.