Review of Jonathan Lurie, The Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft, 1921-1930 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019), in the Journal of American History, 107 (September 2020), 521-522.
Review of Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019), forthcoming in the Academy of Management Learning and Education (2020).
Review of Peter Graham Fish, Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1836-1861 (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2015), in the North Carolina Historical Review (April 2016), 222-223.
Review of Brooke Speer Orr, The ‘People’s Joan of Arc’: Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics, and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2014), in Neue Politische Literatur, 59 (No. 3, 2014), 474-475.
Review of Kate Sayen Kirkland, Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941 (College Station: Texas A & M Press, 2012), in the Journal of Southern History, 80 (May, 2014), 504-505.
Review of Michael Perman, The Southern Political Tradition(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012), in the North Carolina Historical Review, XC (January, 2013), 120-121.
Review of Gerard N. Magliocca, The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), in the Journal of American History, 98 (March 2012), 1175-1176.
Review of Troy Rondinone, The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010), in The Historian, 73 (Fall 2011), 579-580.
Review of Anna R. Hayes, Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), in the North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXIV (October 2009), 447-449.
Review of James M. Beeby, Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008), in the American Historical Review, 114 (June 2009), 774-775.
Review of O. Gene Clanton, A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903 (Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 2004), in the Journal of American History, 95 (September 2008), 537.
Review of Mark Aldrich, Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), in the Journal of American History, 93 (March 2007), 1270-1271.
Review of John Fabian Witt, The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), in the Florida Historical Quarterly, 83 (Spring 2005), 493-495.
Review of Paul DeForest Hicks, Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgia’s First Chief Justice (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002), in Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2005), 215-217.
Review of J. Timothy Cole, The Forest City Lynchingof 1900 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2003), in the North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXI (April 2004), 229-230.
Review of Jenny Bourne Wahl, The Bondsman’s Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Slavery (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1998), in Law and History Review, 19 (Fall 2001), 692-694.
Review of David E. Bernstein, Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), in the North Carolina Historical Review, LXXVII (July 2001), 408.
Review of David J. Langum and Howard P. Walthall, From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847-1997 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997), in the Journal of Southern Legal History, 8 (2000), 193-198.
Review of Gene Clanton, Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), in the North Carolina Historical Review, LXXVII (January 2000), 120-121.
Review of William G. Thomas, Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999), in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXXIV (Spring 2000), 169-170.
Review of Shawn Everett Kantor, Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Post-Bellum South (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), in Agricultural History, 74 (Winter 2000), 107-108.
Review of Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of American Finance, 1865-1896 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), in the North Carolina Historical Review, LXXV (January 1998), 121-122.
Review of Harold D. Woodman, New South --New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), in the Journal of Southern Legal History, 4 (1995-1996), 141-156.
Review of Jeffrey Ostler, Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993), in Agricultural History, 68 (Fall 1994), 79-80.
Review of Peter Charles Hoffer, Law and People in Colonial America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), intheNorth Carolina Historical Review, LXX (January 1993), 74-75.
Review of Norman Pollack, The Just Polity: Populism, Law, and Human Welfare (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), intheNorth Carolina Historical Review, LXVI (January 1988), 117-118.
Review of Lowell K. Dyson, Farmers' Organizations: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Institutions (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986), in Southern Historian, 8 (Spring 1987), 120.
Review of Lala Carr Steelman, The North Carolina Farmers' Alliance: A Political History, 1887-1893 (Greenville, N.C.: Department of History,East Carolina University, 1985), in the North Carolina Historical Review, LXVII (April 1986), 249-250.
Review of Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985), in Southern Historian, 7 (Spring 1986), 53-54.
Review of Barton C. Shaw, The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984), intheWisconsin Magazine of History, 69 (Spring 1986), 237-238.
Review of Lindley S. Butler and Alan D. Watson (eds.), The North Carolina Experience: An Interpretive and Documentary History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984), in Southern Historian, 7 (Spring 1986), 42-43.
Review of Charles Joyner, Down By the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984), in Southern Historian, 6 (Spring 1985), 63.
