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Books

• When General Grant Expelled the Jews. Schocken/Nextbook, 2012

• Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America. Co-edited with Eitan Fishbane.  Brandeis University Press/UPNE, 2011.

• New Essays in American Jewish History [Commemorating 60th Anniversary of American Jewish Archives]. Co-edited with Pamela S. Nadell and Lance J. Sussman. Ktav/AJA, 2010.

• Jews and the Civil War: A Reader. With Adam Mendelsohn. NYU Press, 2010.

• A Time to Every Season: Letters to a Young Jew. Basic Books/Perseus, 2008. [Finalist, National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Family Literature, 2008] 

• The History of the Jewish People: A Story of Tradition and Change. Volume 1, with Jonathan B.Krasner, Behrman House, 2006; Volume 2, with Jonathan B. Krasner, Behrman House, 2007 [Textbook for young people; Awarded Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing, Social Studies Textbooks , Grades 6-8. Issued by the Association of Educational Publishers.] 

• Three Hundred Fifty Years: An Album of Jewish Memory. Co-editor, American Jewish Historical Society & American Jewish Archives, 2005

• Hayahadut BeAmerika, Merkaz Shazar, 2005 [Hebrew translation of American Judaism with new introduction]

• American Judaism: A History. Yale University Press, 2004 [winner, Everett Family Foundation “Jewish Book of the Year” Award, Jewish Book Council; Co-winner of the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Prize for the Outstanding Book in American Jewish History, 2003-2004; Winner of the Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute 2005 Prize for Best Book in American Jewish Studies; Selected as a finalist for the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Awards in the History category; Selected by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2004 in the Religion category; Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2004.] Translated into Chinese, 2009.

• America and Zion: Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis. Edited with Eli Lederhendler, Wayne State University Press, 2002

• Jewish Polity and American Civil Society. Co-edited with Alan Mittleman and Robert Licht, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

• Jews and the American Public Square. Co-edited with Alan Mittleman and Robert Licht, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002

• Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives. Edited with Pamela S. Nadell, University Press of New England, 2001.

• Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience. With David G. Dalin, University of Notre Dame Press, 1997 [Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1998]

• Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism. Co-edited with Mark A. Raider and Ronald W. Zweig, Frank Cass, 1997.

• Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream. Edited, University of Illinois Press, 1997

• The Jews of Boston. With Ellen Smith, Combined Jewish Philanthropies/ Northeastern University Press, 1995; 2nd edition, Yale University Press, 2005.

• Observing America's Jews. Edited, with foreword and headnotes. University Press of New England, 1993.

• Yehude Artsot Ha-Berit. Edited with Lloyd Gartner, Merkaz Shazar, 1992.

• Ethnic Diversity and Civic Identity: Patterns of Conflict and Cohesion in Cincinnati Since 1820. Edited with Henry D. Shapiro, University of Illinois Press, 1992.

• A Double Bond: The Constitutional Documents of American Jewry. Edited with Daniel J. Elazar and Rela Geffen Monson, University Press of America, 1992.

• The Jews of Cincinnati. With Nancy H. Klein, Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience, 1989.

• JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture 1888-1988. Jewish Publication Society, 1989.

• Yahadut Amerika: American Jewry: An Annotated Bibliography of Publications in Hebrew. With Janet Liss, Hebrew University, 1991.

• American Synagogue History: A Bibliography and State-of-the-Field Survey. With Alexandra S. Korros, Markus Wiener, 1988.

• The American Jewish Experience: A Reader. Holmes & Meier, 1986; 2nd revised edition, 1997.

• Jews and the Founding of the Republic. Co-editor, Markus Wiener 1985.

• People Walk on Their Heads: Moses Weinberger's Jews and Judaism in New York. Translated and edited, Holmes & Meier, 1982.

• Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah, Holmes & Meier. 1981 (nominated for the National Jewish Book Award).

• Mordecai Manuel Noah: Jacksonian Politician and American Jewish Communal Leader -- A Biographical Study, Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, 1979 (available from University Microfilms).

• Jews in New Haven. Edited, Jewish Historical Society of New Haven, 1978.

Series

• "Masterworks of Modern Jewish Writing," General Editor, 11 volumes. Markus Wiener Publishing.

• "American Jewish Life," co-editor (with Moses Rischin), 13 volumes, Wayne State University Press.

• "Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life," General Editor, 43 titles, Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England.