• "'Bringing New Hope and Confidence to the People': Children and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South, 1912-1932," in Designing Modern Childhoods: Landscapes, Buildings, and Material Culture, ed. Marta Gutman and Ning deConinck-Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
• "Rosenwald Schools in the Rural Southern Landscape," in We Will Independent Be: African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S., ed. Leslie M. Alexander and Angel David Nieves (University Press of Colorado, 2008).
• The Rosenwald Schools of the American South, New Perspectives on the History of the South (University Press of Florida, 2006). Award of Excellence, Southeast Society of Architectural Historians; Honorable Mention, History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award.
• "Preserving Rosenwald Schools" Preservation Book series, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2003.
• Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community (University of Tennessee Press, 1998). Co-winner, Tennessee History Book Award, 1998.
• "'Better Homes on Better Farms': Domestic Reform in Rural Tennessee," Frontiers 22:1 (2001).
• "Organizing Rural Communities for Change: The Commonwealth Fund Child Health Demonstration in Rutherford County," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 53 (Fall 1994)
• "The Science of Domesticity: Home Economics at George Peabody College for Teachers," Journal of Southern History 57 (November 1991).

Works in Progress

• Study of Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers in Alabama, 1907-1925.

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