The African American Heritage of Florida (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1995) with Jane L. Landers, 392 pages. Book received the Rembert W. Patrick Book Prize as the best book in Florida History for 1996. Also received a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association of State and Local History, 1996.

Racial Crisis and Community Conflict:  St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992) republished in paperback by UF Press with new introduction and revisions, 258 pages.

Racial Crisis and Community Conflict:  St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980, (New York:  Columbia University Press, 1985), 248 pages. Book received the Rembert W. Patrick Memorial Book Prize as the best book in Florida history for 1986.

Reform and Reformers in the Progressive Era, (New York: Greenwood Press, New York, 1983) with George Pozzetta, 193 pages.

Southern Businessmen and Desegregation, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982) with Elizabeth Jacoway, 324 pages.

Florida Gubernatorial Politics in the Twentieth Century, (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1981) with Richard K. Scher, 342 pages. This book was runner-up for the V.O. Key Prize for the best book in Southern Politics, awarded by the Southern Political Science Association in 1981.

America and the New Ethnicity (Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1979) with George Pozzetta, 243 pages.

Monographs:

The American Civil Rights Movement, (St. Louis: Forum Press, 1978), 35 pages.

Chapters in Books:

"Florida Politics in the Twentieth Century," pp. 35-56 in Florida Politics and Government, edited by Manning Dauer (Gainesville: University of Florida Presses, 1980).

"The Governor and His Office," pp. 105-123, in Florida Politics and Government, edited by Manning Dauer (Gainesville:  University of Florida Presses, 1980).

"The Saint Augustine Business Community: Desegregation, 1964-65," pp. 211-235, in Southern Businessmen and Desegregation, edited by Elizabeth Jacoway and David R. Colburn (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981).

"The American Civil Rights Movement," in America Since the Depression, edited by Richard Lowitt (St. Louis: Forum Press, 1980), 35 pages.

"Alfred E. Smith and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire," pp. 25-46, in Reform and Reformers and the Progressive Era, edited by David R. Colburn and George E. Pozzetta (New York:  Greenwood Press, 1983).

"Florida's Governors Confront the Brown Decision: A Case Study of the Constitutional Politics of School Desegregation, 1954-1970," in Kermit Hall and James Ely, An Uncertain Tradition: Constitutionalism and the History of the South (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1989), 326-355.

"The Oldest Segregated City in America: St. Augustine, Florida, 1963-64," in St. Augustine, Florida, 1963-64: Mass Protest and Racial Violence, edited by David J. Garrow (Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1989), p. xiii-xix.

"The Saint Augustine Business Community," reprinted in Garrow, editor, St. Augustine, Florida, 1963-64 (Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing Company, 1989), pp. 327-352.

"Race, Ethnicity, and the Evolution of Political Legitimacy during the 1960s," with George Pozzetta, 119-148, edited by David Farber, The Sixties: From Memory to History (Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press, 1994).

"Florida Politics in the Twentieth Century," 344-372 in The New History of Florida, edited by Michael Gannon (University Press of Florida), 1996.

"Groveland: Florida's Little Scottsboro," with Steven Lawson and Darryl Paulson, republished in David R. Colburn and Jane Landers, editors, The African American Heritage of Florida (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1995), 298-325.

Articles Referred:

"Governor Alfred E. Smith and the Red Scare, 1919-1920," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 88, No. 3, September 1973, pp. 423-44. Abstracted in International Political Science Abstracts, 1974.

"Crime and Ethnic Minorities in America," with George E. Pozzetta, The History Teacher, Vol. VII, No. 4, August 1974, pp. 598-609.

"Florida Gubernatorial Politics:  The Fuller Warren Years," with Richard K. Scher, Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. LIII, No. 4, April 1975, pp. 389-498.

"Bosses and Machines: Changing Themes in American History," with George E. Pozzetta, The History Teacher, Vol. IX, No. 3, May 1976, pp. 445-63.

"Governor Alfred E. Smith and Penal Reform," Political Science Quarterly, Vol.. 91, No. 2, Summer 1976 pp. 315-27.  Abstracted in International Political Science Abstracts, 1976.

"Race Relations and Florida Gubernatorial Politics Since the Brown Decision," with Richard K. Scher, Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. LV, No. 2, October 1976, pp. 153-69.

"The Politics of Interposition:  The Aftermath of the Brown Decision in Florida," with Richard K. Scher, Tequesta, 1978, pp. 62-81.

"Florida's Little Scottsboro Case: The Groveland Story" with Steven Lawson and Darryl Paulson, The Florida Historical Review, July, 1986, pp. 1-26.

"Reexamining the Early Career and Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.," the Florida Historical Quarterly, January 1994, 337-353.

“Rosewood in Historical Context,” The Florida Historical Society, fall, 1997, 22 pages.

Reports:

A Documented History of the Incident at Rosewood, Florida in January 1923, 554 pages with appendices, submitted to the Florida Board of Regents, December 22, 1993. Report was commissioned by the State Legislature of Florida in order to provide historical documentation of the predominantly black community of Rosewood and its destruction in
January, 1923

Contributing Columnist for the Orlando Sentinel:

Have served as a guest political columnist for the past eight years and have written 110 columns on such issues as state and national politics, race relations, the public schools, and the presidential primaries and general elections. The Sentinel is ranked as one of the top 11 newspapers in the country and has a circulation of 400,000.
 

WORK IN PROGRESS:

A book-length study of "Government in the Sunshine State." Project is complete and manuscript has been submitted for publication in 1999.

A book-length study  of "Rosewood: A Study of Racial Violence in the South." Project is nearly complete and manuscript has been requested by several publication houses and university presses.

An edited book on "African American Mayors since1968," manuscript is under contract to the University of Illinois Press and due for submission at the end of 1998.