Articles and Chapters

“The Political Construction of a Natural Disaster: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853,” Journal of American History (December 2008).

“Birmingham, Alabama,” in The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. New York: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“Steelworkers,” in The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. New York: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“Iron and Steel Workers,” in The Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.

“The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union,” in The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements.  New York: Greenwood Press, 200).

“John Gill Shorter,” in Alabama’s Governors. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 2003.

“Thomas Hill Watts,” in Alabama’s Governors.  Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 2003.

“Secession, War, and Reconstruction” in Mobile: A New History of Alabama’s First City.  Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2001.

“White Workers, White Capital, and the Struggle for Shop Floor Control in Birmingham, Alabama, 1880-1895,” Locus 6 (Fall 1993): 1-21.

“The Deep South,” in the Encyclopedia of American Social History, edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993, pp. 1045-1059.

“The Household Composition of Working-Class Families in the Birmingham District, 1900,” Southern Historian 6 (Spring 1985): 40-52.