Books
Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell, University of North Carolina Press, John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, 2020. Chosen as one of "The Best Black History Books of 2020," African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), Black Perspectives, December 21, 2020. Book of the Day, Foreword Reviews, December 23, 2020.
Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century American Women on Race, Reform, and the State, Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. https://www.niupress.niu.edu/niupress/Scripts/Book/bookResults.asp?ID=546
Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933, University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Edited Books
Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History, edited by Alison M. Parker & Carol Faulkner (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012, paperback 2014).
Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest, edited by Stephanie Cole and Alison M. Parker, Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole, Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
Book Series Editor
Co-editor, with Carol Faulkner (Syracuse University), of a book series, Gender and Race in American History, for the University of Rochester Press, 2008–. https://boydellandbrewer.com/series/gender-and-race-in-american-history.html
Articles
Exploring Epistolary Relationships: Black Women’s Letters to Mary Church Terrell,” special issue on “Supportive Practices? Letters to Social Movement Activists,” in Outlines. Critical Practice Studies Journal (Copenhagen, Denmark, forthcoming).
“Oscar Stanton DePriest: Republican Politics, the Strategy of Non-Partisanship, and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” The Journal of African American History (V. 108, n. 4, Fall 2023).
Co-authored with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Naomi Williams, “Contemporary Black Women's Voting Rights Activism: Some Historical Perspective," Seneca Falls Dialogue Journal, Issue 4 (2021).
"'The Picture of Health': The Public Life and Private Ailments of Mary Church Terrell," in a special issue of the Journal of Historical Biography guest edited by Alison M. Parker, entitled "Disability and Disclosure: The Body, Secrets, and Women's Biography," (2013). www.ufv.ca/jhb/Volume_13/Volume_13_TOC.pdf
"Frances Watkins Harper and the Search for Women’s Interracial Alliances,” in Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights, edited by Mary Huth and Christine Ridarsky (University of Rochester Press, 2012).
"Clubwomen, Reformers, Workers, and Feminists of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," in Women's Rights in the Age of Suffrage: People and Perspectives, edited by Crista DeLuzio (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2009).
"Women Activists and the US Congress, 1870s-1920s," inThe American Congress: Building of Democacy, edited by Julian Zelizer, (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004).
"The Case for Reform Antecedents to the Woman Suffrage Movement," in Votes for Women: A Concise History of the Suffrage Movement, Oxford University Press, 2002.
"'What We Do Expect the People Legislatively to Effect': Frances Wright, Moral Reform, and State Legislation" in Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole, Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
"'Hearts Uplifted and Minds Refreshed': The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Production of Pure Culture," inJournal of Women’s History, Summer 1999.
"Mothering the Movies: Women Reformers and the Censorship of Popular Culture," in Movie Censorship and American Culture, edited by Francis Couvares, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Digital Articles
“Mary Church Terrell: Black Suffragist and Civil Rights Activist,” Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission blog, July 2020; republished in On Their Shoulders: The Radical Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote (published by WSCC on Amazon Kindle, September 2020).
"Mary Church Terrell" peer-reviewed biographical essay for the series "Black Women and Suffrage" for the Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-200 website, edited by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Thomas Dublin (Alexander Street Press, Spring 2015).
“Mary Church Terrell’s International Perspective on U.S. Race Relations,” peer-reviewed article with a fully transcribed Primary Source Document Project for the Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 website, edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin (Alexander Street Press, Spring 2012).
Review Essays
Review Essay, “Black Women's Biographies: Connecting the Personal and Political," Reviews in American History 50 (March 2022).
"Intersecting Histories of Gender, Race, and Disability, "Journal of Women's History (Spring 2015, Vol. 2y, Issue 1).
"Twentieth-Century Transformations: Sexualities Defined and Sexual Expression Expanded" Reviews in American History (June 2014).
“Reading Race Through U.S. Women’s Biographies,” in the Journal of Women’s History (Autumn, 2012 V. 24, Issue 3).
"The Alcotts and the Wilders: Revealing Family Histories,” for Reviews in American History (December 2010).
"The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848: A Pivotal Moment in Nineteenth-Century America." Reviews in American History (Sept. 2008).
"Women's Rights and 'Speech Communities' in American Legal History," Reviews in American History, Vol. 31, N.1 (March 2003).
