Books include "Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew," an American Civil War biography that has gone through three editions; "From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition"; and "Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture." In addition, he has contributed to a number of influential books, including "The New Right Papers", (Robert W. Whitaker, Ed.). He has edited a number of books, including three volumes of "The Dictionary of Literary Biography on American historians"; "The Essential Calhoun"; "John C. Calhoun: A Bibliography"; and "A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and His Achievements". He has also written for "Telos".