Representative Publications:
Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in Eighteen-Century New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963).
The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971) reprinted in paperback (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, paperback ed., 1986).
Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; paperback ed., 1998).