Andrew Carnegie (Penguin Press, 2006).

The Chief: Life and Times of William Randolph Hearst (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements (Basic Books, 1993).

Children of the City: At Work and at Play (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985; Oxford University Press, 1986).

Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in United States (Oxford University Press, 1979, 1980).

Articles, Reviews, Essays:
"Teaching Cultural History to Graduate Students," Radical History Review (Fall, 1996).

"Learning to go to the Movies," American Heritage (November, 1993).

"Cities of Light, Landscapes of Pleasure," Landscapes of Modernity, eds. by Oliver Zunz and David WArd (Russell Sage Foundation, 1992).