BOOKS | EDITED COLLECTIONS | ARTICLES |
Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir (New York: Basic Books, 2025.)
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted Upon Equality for All (New York: Basic Books, 2020.)
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (New York: Cambridge University Press, Studies in Legal History Series, 2018.)
“All Bound Up Together”: The Woman Question in African-American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women, with Mia Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones and Barbara D. Savage. (University of North Carolina Press, 2015.)
Proclaiming Emancipation. Journal of the Civil War Era. 3, no. 4 (December 2013.)
Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Special Issue: Pass*ing. With John L. Jackson, Jr. 29, no. 1 (Fall 2005.)
ARTICLES (selected)
“Response to Professor Blight’s Frederick Douglass and the Two Constitutions: Proslavery and Antislavery,” California Law Review 111 (December 2023): 1929-1942.
“The Age of Emancipation,” A New History of the American South, ed. W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023).
“Unsilenced Past,” (with Jessica Marie Johnson), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 eds. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.)
“On Eric Foner’s “The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions,” Civil War History 69, no. 2 (June 2023.)
“Thick Women and the Thin Nineteenth Amendment,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 20, no. 1 (Winter 2022): 1-17.
“Citizenship,” The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, eds. Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine (New York: One World, 2021.)
“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore,” The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered, eds., Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2021.)
“American Revolution,” 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 eds. Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (New York: Random House, 2021).
“Introduction: Sovereignty,” law&history: The Journal of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society 8, no. 2 (2021): vii-xii.
“Introduction,” Tommy Jenkins and Kati Lacker, Drawing the Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Voting in America (New York, NY: Abrams ComicArts, 2020.)
“How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect,” Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities. September 2019.
“The Politics of Black Womanhood, 1848–2008,” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, ed., Kate Clark Lemay (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.)
“Navigating Free Black Citizenship: Port City Encounters from Baltimore to Rio de Janeiro,” in Whitney Stewart and John Marks, eds. Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.)
“Forgetting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the United States: How History Troubled Memory in 2008.” Distant Ripples of the British Abolitionist Wave: Africa, Asia, and the Americas, eds. Myriam Cottias and Marie Jeanne Rossignol (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press Tubman Institute Series, 2018.)
“Birthright Citizenship and Reconstruction’s Unfinished Revolution,” Journal of the Civil War Era, in Forum: The Future of Reconstruction Studies, Journal of the Civil War Era 7, no. 1 (March 2017): 10.
“First the Streets, Then the Archives,” American Journal of Legal History 56, no. 1 (March 2016): 92-96.
“False Starts, Missed Opportunities, and a Pioneering Historian,” The Quarto 46 (Fall-Winter 2016.)
“Marin et citoyen : être noir et libre à bord des navires états-uniens avant la Guerre civile.” Le movement social, 3 (2015): 93-112.
“Histories, Fictions, and Black Womanhood Bodies: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Politics in the Twenty-First Century.” Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women, eds. Mia Bay, Farah Griffin, Martha S. Jones and Barbara D. Savage (University of North Carolina Press, 2015.)
“History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150.” Journal of the Civil War Era, 3, no. 4 (December 2013): 452-457.
“Emancipation’s Encounters: Seeing the Proclamation Through Soldiers’ Sketchbooks.” Journal of the Civil War Era, 3, no. 4 (December 2013): 533 548.
“Hughes v. Jackson: Race and Rights Beyond Dred Scott.” 91, no. 5 North Carolina Law Review (June 2013): 1757-1783.
“The Case of Jean Baptiste, un Créole de Saint-Domingue: Narrating Slavery, Freedom, and the Haitian Revolution in Baltimore City.” Chapter 5 in The American South and the Atlantic World eds. Brian Ward, Martin Bone, and William A. Link (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013): 104-128.
“Historians’ Forum: The Emancipation Proclamation.” (with Kate Masur, Louis Masur, James Oakes, and Manisha Sinha.) 59, no. 1 Civil War History (March 2013.)
“Time, Space, and Jurisdiction in Atlantic World Slavery: The Volunbrun Household in Gradual Emancipation New York.” Law and History Review 29, no 4 (November 2011): 1031-1060.
“Overthrowing the ‘Monopoly of the Pulpit’: Race and the Rights of Churchwomen in Nineteenth Century America.” No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism, ed. Nancy Hewitt (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.)
“Leave of Court: African-American Legal Claims Making In the Era of Dred Scott v. Sandford.” Contested Democracy: Politics, Ideology and Race in American History, eds. Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.)
“Make us a Power”: African-American Methodists Debate the Rights of Women, 1870-1900.” Women and Religion in the African Diaspora, eds. R. Marie Griffith and Barbara D. Savage. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
“Perspectives on Teaching Women’s History: Views from the Classroom, the Library, and the Internet,” Journal of Women’s History 16, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 143-176.