I. Books
The Bell Tower and Beyond: Reflections on Learning and Living (University of South Carolina Press, 2002)
For the Record: A Documentary History of America 3rd Edition(New York: W. W. Norton, 2000) [with Holly Mayer]
Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1995) [Pulitzer Prize nomination]
America: A Narrative History 7th Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000) [with George Tindall]
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1986)
The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985; revised edition University of Georgia Press, 2001) [History Book Club selection; Editor's Choice, American Heritage]
Matthew Josephson, Bourgeois Bohemian (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981) [Pulitzer Prize nomination]
II. Articles
Bi-Weekly Columnist for the Greenville News
Guest Columnist for the Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Charlotte Observer, Philadelphia Inquirer, and three dozen other newspapers
"Technology and Integrative Learning: Enabling Serendipitous Connectivity across Courses," Peer Review 8 (Fall 2006):4-7.
"The Simple Life," Orion 12 (Summer 1993): 6-13.
"A Critical Friendship: Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley," American Literary History 1 (Winter 1989): 920-32.
"Thoreau for Commuters," North American Review 272 (June 1987): 65-69.
"What Happened to the Simple Life?" National Humanities Center Newsletter 7 (Spring 1986): 1-11.
"Ernest Thompson Seton and the Boy Scouts: A Moral Equivalent of War?" South Atlantic Quarterly 84 (Autumn 1985): 379-91.
"Plain Living and High Thinking," Sojourners 14 (November 1985): 32-36.
"Triumph of the Therapeutic?" American Quarterly 36 (Fall 1984): 705-12.
"Edward Bok and the Simple Life," American Heritage 36 (December 1984): 100-109.
"Teaching as a Craft and a Calling," Furman Reports (Fall 1984): 8-9.
"Matthew Josephson and Broom: Cultural Nationalism in the Jazz Age," Southern Review 19 (Summer 1983):573-95.
"Malcolm Cowley and Literary New York," Virginia Quarterly Review 58 (Autumn 1982): 575-93.
"Herbert Agar and Free America: A Jeffersonian Alternative to the New Deal," Journal of American Studies 16 (August 1982): 189-206.
"The Politicos: A Modern Look at a Muckraking Classic," South Atlantic Quarterly 80 (Summer 1981): 289-304.
"Transatlantic Images: The Impact of the American Cinema upon the French Avant-Garde," Journal of Popular Culture 14 (Spring 1981): 583-96.
"Agrarianism for Commuters," South Atlantic Quarterly 79 (Spring 1980): 204-18. [with William E. Leverette, Jr.]
"Small Is Beautiful--and American," Southeastern American Studies Association Proceedings (Spring 1979): 75-84.
"Advertising and the Literary Imagination during the Jazz Age," Journal of American Culture 2 (Summer 1979):167-76.
"William H. Seward's Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865-1869," Pacific Historical Review 47 (May 1978):217-38.
"Munson Versus Josephson: Battle of the Aesthetes," Lost Generation Journal 5 (Spring 1977):18-22.
