Book
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Black Women’s Politics, Narratives of Sexual Immorality, and Pension Bureaucracy in Mary Lee’s North Carolina Neighborhood,” Journal of Southern History 80:4 (November 2014): 827–58.
“‘Her Claim for Pension Is Lawful and Just’: Representing Black Union Widows in Late-Nineteenth Century North Carolina,” Journal of the Civil War Era 1:2 (June 2011): 207–36.
Encyclopedia Articles
Encyclopedia Entry, “Emancipation,” Enslaved Women in America, ed. Daina Ramey Berry (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012), 76–82.
Encyclopedia Entry, “Citizenship” and “Emancipation,” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 13, Gender, ed. Ted Ownby and Nancy Bercaw (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 90–95 and 130–35.
Encyclopedia Entry, “Laundresses,” in "Black Women in America Encyclopedia," ed. Darlene Clark Hine, 2nd ed., 3 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 2: 229–31.
Online Publications
Blog, “Reimagining the Lives of African American Union Widows in Post–Civil War America”
Book Reviews
Book Review of Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015), "Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" 15 (September/October 2016): 475–77.
Book Review of Mary Farmer-Kaiser, "Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation" (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010), in "Journal of Southern History" 77 (November 2011): 999–1000.
Book Review of Thavolia Glymph, "Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household" (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), in "The Alabama Review" 63 (January 2010): 75–77.