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Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S. Israel Alliance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism. Co-edited with Matthew D. Lassiter. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary's Role in American Education. Co-editor with Martin West. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2009.

Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Passing The Buck: Congress, The Budget, And Deficits. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008.

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Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Walmart Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

"Supermarket USA Confronts State Socialism: Airlifting the Technopolitics of Industrial Food Distribution into Cold War Yugoslavia." In Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users, edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

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Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.

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Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.

No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

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The State of Disunion: Regional Sources of Modern American Partisanship. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

The Limits of Voluntarism: Charity and Welfare from the New Deal through the Great Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

New Alignments: American Voluntarism and the Expansion of Welfare in the 1920s. London: Routledge, 2007.

Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.

"The Free and Open People's Market: Political Ideology and Retail Brokerage at the New York Stock Exchange, 1913-1933." Journal of American History 96 (2009).

"Beyond Boom and Bust: External Rents, Durable Authoritarianism, and Institutional Adaptation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan." Studies in Comparative International Development 44 (2009).

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The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

"Solving the 'Rural School Problem': New State Aid, Standards, and Supervision of Local Schools, 1900-1933." History of Education Quarterly 48 (Spring 2008): 181-220.

"Lessons from the Past: A Challenge and a Caution for Policy-Relevant History." In Clio at the Table: Using History to Inform and Improve Education Policy, edited by Kenneth K. Wong and Robert Rothman. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008.

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"The Quiet Militant: Arthur Ashe and Black Athletic Activism." In Outside the Shadows: A Biographical History of the Black Athlete, edited by D. Wiggins. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

"Let the Games Begin: Sport, U.S. Race Relations, and Cold War Politics." In America's Game(s): A Critical Anthropology of Sport, edited by B. Eastman et al. London: Routledge Press. 2007.

"Touring for the Nation?: African-American Athletes and the Cultural Cold War." In The Physical Cultural Studies Reader: A Constitutive Anthology, edited by M. Silk & D. Andrews. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.

"Allied Against Reform: Pharmaceutical Industry-Academic Physician Relations in the United States, 1945-1970." Bulletin of the History of the Medicine 82 (2008): 878-912.

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"Gay Rights." In Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversies, edited by Jack Citrin, Nathaniel Persily and Patrick Egan. New York: Oxford University Press, March 2008.

Developing Interests: Organizational Change and the Politics of Advocacy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2010.

"The Price of Advocacy: Mobilization and Maintenance in Advocacy Organizations." In Rethinking Advocacy Organizations: A Collective Action Perspective, edited by Aseem Prakash and Mary Kay Gugerty. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.