Historical writing

co-authored with Desmond King, in Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac, eds., States of Exception in American History (University of Chicago Press, 2020), 313-40

in Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor, eds., Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 257-278

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2018), 241-64.

Third Eccles Centre for American Studies Lecture (British Library 2018).

in Julian Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2018), 261-280.

in latest edition of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2017), 375-426.

to Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration to the United States, edited by Maraget Salazar-Porzio and Joan Fragaszy Troyano with Lauren Safranek (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2017), 3-9.

Journal of the Civil War Era, March 2017.

in Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan, eds., The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered: American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era (University of Florida Press, 2017), 52-66.

In Ronald Bayor, ed., Handbook on American Immigration and Ethnicity (Oxford University Press, 2016), 144-165.

In Nancy Foner and Patrick Simone, eds., Fear and Anxiety over National Identity (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015), 33-58. (PDF)

In Emmanuelle Avril and Johann Neem, eds., Democracy, Participation, and Contestation: Civil Society, Governance, and the Future of Liberal Democracy (Routledge, 2014), 285-90.

In Jennifer Hochschild, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Claudine Gay, and Michael Jones-Correa, eds., Outsiders No More?  Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford University Press, 2013), 306-320. (PDF)

International Labor and Working-Class History (Fall 2010), 110–117.

In Julian Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2010), 252–81. (PDF)

The American Historical Review 115.3 (June 2010): 779–85. (PDF)

In Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King, eds., The Unsustainable American State (Oxford University Press, 2009), 61–87. (PDF)

In Frans Becker, Menno Hurenkamp, and Michael Kazin, eds., Op zoek naar progressief Amerika (Amsterdam: Mets and Schilt Publishers, 2007), 112–127. Published in English as “America’s Encounter with Immigrants,” in Michael Kazin, ed., In Search of Progressive America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 37–53. Translated into French as “L’Amérique rencontre les immigrants: passé, présent, futur” for a special edition of Les Cahiers d’Histoire (September 2009). (PDFs)

In John Milton Cooper, Jr., ed., Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 93–124. (PDF)

In Don H. Doyle and Marco A. Pamplona, eds. Nationalism in the Americas (University of Georgia 2006), 272–304; translated into Portuguese as “Raca e nacao nos Estados Unidos, Mexico e Cuba, 1880–1940,” in Nacionalismo no Novo Mundo: a formacao de estados-nacao no seculo XIX (Editora Record, 2008), 409–450. (PDF)

In Philippa Strum, ed., American Arabs and Political Participation (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2006), 27–40. (PDF)

In Michael Kazin and Joseph McCartin, eds., Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal (University of North Carolina, 2006), 128–152; translated into Portuguese as “Na sombra do Vietna: o nacionalismo liberal e o problema da guerra,” Tempo 25 (July–December 2008), 47–74. (PDF)

In John Tirman, ed., The Maze of Fear: Security and Migration after 9/11 (The New Press, 2004), 87–108; translated as “L’immigrant, une menace pour la securite americaine,” and anthologized in Pietro Causarano, et al., Le XX siecle des guerres (Paris: Les Editions de l’Atelier, 2004), 256–272. A revised and updated version of this essay appeared in Elliott R. Barkan, Hasia Diner, and Alan M. Kraut, eds., From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era (NYU Press, 2008), 217–245. (PDF)

In Harvard Sitkoff, ed., Making Sense of the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2000), 275–95. (PDF)

Journal of American History 86 (December 1999), 1280–1307. A revised version of this essay will appear in Bruce Baum and Duchess Harris, eds., Racially Writing the Republic (Duke University Press, 2009). (PDF)

Journal of American History 84 (September 1997), 524–558; with responses from David Hollinger and Donna Gabaccia, and a rejoinder, “The Power of Nations,” Journal of American History 84 (Sept. 1997), 576–80, from Gerstle. Anthologized in Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind, eds., The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience (Russell Sage, 1999), 275–94. Translated and reprinted as “Libertad y coaccion en la conformacion de la nacion norte Americana,” in Desarrollo Económico: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 40 (July–September, 2000), 317–48. (PDF)

Journal of American History 82 (September 1995), 579–86. (PDF)

American Historical Review 99 (October 1994), 1043–1073. (PDF)