Books:
“Hard Work: A History of Sanitation Workers and the Teamsters”
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 2017
“Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics”
-University of Virginia Press, 2014
“Amzie Moore: The Biographical Roots of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi”
-The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement, Edited by Susan M. Glisson, 2006
Exhibits and Other Curatorial Projects:
“Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies” (Consulting Historian)
– National Museum of African American History and Culture, Sept 2021 through August 2022
“Black Main Street: Funding Civil Rights in Jim Crow America”
– National Museum of American History, Sept 2016 through March 2017
“African American Contributions to the Smithsonian: Challenges and Achievements”
– Smithsonian Institution Archives, Sept 2016
Articles:
“Making Waves: Beauty Salons and the Black Freedom Struggle”
– O Say Can You See? Stories from the National Museum of American History, 6 Nov 2016
“Freedom’s Tally: An African American Business in the Jim Crow South”
– O Say Can You See? Stories from the National Museum of American History, 18 Oct 2016
“Against Exceptionalism, Beyond Triumphalism: a review of the National Museum of African American History”
– Public Seminar, 24 Sept 2016
“Hearing the Unheard: the Smithsonian and the Riots of 1968.”
– The Bigger Picture: Exploring Archives and Smithsonian History, 20 Sept 2016
“Between Science and Empire: Oldfield Thomas and Anglo-American Zoology.”
– The Bigger Picture: Exploring Archives and Smithsonian History, 19 Jan 2016
“What Bernie Sanders fans miss about Black Lives Matter: White supremacy is bigger than economics”
– Salon.com, 12 August 2015
“An Atlas of Self-Reliance: The Negro Motorist’s Green Book (1937-1964)”
– O Say Can You See? Stories from the National Museum of American History, 29 July 2015
“How they ignore Black America: Freddie Gray, Baltimore & the pernicious influence of respectability politics”
– Salon.com, 28 April 2015
“America just doesn’t get it: Why police killings demand more than a “respectable” response”
– Salon.com, 13 December 2014
“Writing History with Wite-Out: A Review of PBS’s The Abolitionists“
– Jacobin: A Magazine of Culture and Polemic, 25 March 2014
“A Solidarity of Strangers: Reflections on Organizing”
– CoreyRobin.com, 8 June 2012
Book and Exhibit Reviews:
The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers. Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.
– The Public Historian 41.1 (February, 2019)
New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement, Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott, eds.
– LABOR 14.2 (May, 2017)
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, Nathan D. B. Connolly.
– LABOR 12.4 (December, 2015)
To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville, Robert Cassanello.
– LABOR 11.4 (Winter, 2014)
A New Deal for All? Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore, Andor Skotnes
– LABOR 11.3 (Fall, 2014)
The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino
– H-SHGAPE (October, 2011)