
Books
King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).
Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
King Philip's War: The Conflict Over New England (NY: Chelsea House Publications, 2007).
Editor, New England Treaties, Southeast, Vol. XIX, Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789 (Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America, 2003).
Editor, New England Treaties, North and West, Vol. XX, Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789 (Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America, 2003).
Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).
Articles
“Eager Partners in Reform: Indians and Frederick Baylies in Southern New England, 1780-1840,” in Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of Early America's Religious Landscape, eds. Joel Martin and Mark Nicholas (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
“Subaltern Indians, Race, and Class in Early America,” in Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World, eds. Simon Middleton and Billy Smith (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
“The Indian’s Pedigree (1794): Indians, Folklore, and Race in Southern New England,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., 61 (2004): 519-36.
“’We, as a tribe, will rule ourselves’: Mashpee’s Struggle for Autonomy, 1745-1840,” in Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, eds. Colin Calloway and Neal Salisbury (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003), 299-340.
“Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity: Indian-Black Intermarriage in Southern New England, 1760-1880," Journal of American History 85 (1998), 466-501.
"The Saga of Sara Muckamugg: Indian and African American Intermarriage in Colonial New England," in Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, ed. Martha Hodes (New York University Press, 1998), 72-90.
“A Case Study of Indian and African American Intermarriage in Colonial New England," in Major Problems in American Women’s History, 3rd ed., eds. Mary Beth Norton and Ruth M. Alexander (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002). This is an abridged version of “The Saga of Sara Muckamugg.”
"'Standing By His Father': Thomas Waban of Natick, circa 1630-1722," in Northeastern Indian Lives, ed. Robert Grumet (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995).
"'To Live More Like My Christian English Neighbors': Natick Indians in the Eighteenth Century," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., 48 (1991), 552-79.
"Compelling a Public Timberlands Policy, U.S. v. Briggs, 1850," Journal of Forest History, 26 (1982): 140-47.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Indians, Northern New England,” and “Indians, Southern New England,” in Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, (New York: Scribner’s,2006).
“Jeremiah Evart,” “William Apess,” and “Samuel Worcester,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, eds. Mark Hanley and Roy Domenico (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006)
“Praying Towns,” “Mohegans,” and “Pequots,” in Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, ed. James Ciment (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006)
“Narragansetts” and “Praying Towns,” in Dictionary of American History, ed. Stanley Kutler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
“Mayhew, Thomas,” and “Waban,” in Dictionary of National Biography (London: Oxford University Press, in press)
"Metacom/King Philip," in The Encyclopedia of the American Indian, ed. Frederick Hoxie (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1996).
"Timber Trespass and Depredation on Public Lands," in Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History, ed. Richard Davis, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1983), II, 649-51.
