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Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day. Rutgers University Press, 2018)
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend, 2nd Edition (Hong Kong University Press, 2012); Chinese Translation, 2012
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David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010); 2010 Annual Best Book Award, Underground Railroad Free Press; Paperback, 2012
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Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciusko, and Agrippa Hull. A tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and the tragic betrayal that divided a nation. Co-authored with Gary Nash. (New York: Basic Books, 2008); Polish Translation, 2009
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Taxi! A Cultural History of the New York City Cabdriver. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007); Chinese translation, 2010.
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Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
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Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey (Madison House, 1997)
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Slavery, Freedom, and Culture (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
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The New York City Cartmen, 1650-1860 (New York University Press, 1986); Revised Edition, 2012
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Edited Books
Chains and Freedom: the Life and Adventure of Peter Wheeler: A Colored Man Yet Living, A Slave in Chains, A Sailor in the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross. (Edited and with an introduction by Graham Russell Hodges, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009)
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Ed., Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
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The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution (Routledge, 1996)
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"Pretends to be Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey (Routledge, 1994, revised 2019)
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Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White (Madison House Publishers, 1993)
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Ed., Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory (M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
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More than 100 short reviews and 13 review essays in Reviews in American History, Journal of Urban History, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Slavery and Abolition, etc.