Authored & Edited Books

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series I: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume II: 1847-1854. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. With John W. Blassingame, et al.

The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series I: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume III: 1855-1863. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. With John W. Blassingame, et al.

On Strike for Respect: A History of the Yale Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike, 1984-85. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1988. Revised edition; Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1994. With Toni Gilpin, Gary Isaac, and Dan Letwin.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series I: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume IV: 1864-1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. With John W. Blassingame et al.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series I: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume V: 1881-1895. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. With John W. Blassingame.

The Moment of Decision: Essays on American Character and Regional Identity. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. Co-edited with Randall M. Miller.

James Redpath, The Roving Editor; or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States. Edited by John R. McKivigan. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. Co-edited with Mitchell Snay.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series II: Autobiographical Writings, Volume I: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. With John W. Blassingame and Peter P. Hinks.

Antislavery Violence in Antebellum America: Essays on Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Co-edited with Stanley Harrold.

Abolitionism and American Religion. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1999.

Abolitionism and American Reform. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1999.

Abolitionism and American Politics and Government. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1999.

Abolitionism and Issues of Race and Gender. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1999.

Abolitionism and the American Law. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1999.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series II: Autobiographical Writings, Volume II: My Bondage and My Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. With John W. Blassingame and Peter P. Hinks.

Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishers, 2006. With Peter P. Hinks.

Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series III: Correspondence, Volume I: 1842-1852. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. With Peter P. Hinks and L. Diane Barnes.

In the Words of Frederick Douglass. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, 2012. With Heather L. Kaufman.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series II: Autobiographical Writings, Volume III: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. With Robert S. Levine and John Stauffer.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Critical Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. With Peter P. Hincks and Heather L. Kaufman.

The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: Critical Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. With Julie Husband and Heather L. Kaufman.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series III: Correspondence, Volume 2: 1853-1865. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland. (Edinburgh, Scot.: University of Edinburgh Press, 2021). With Hannah-Rose Murray.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series IV: Journalism and Other Writing, Volume 1: Journalism and Other Writing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series III: Correspondence, Volume 3: 1866-1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.