Author:

• The Right-Wing Press in France, 1792-1800 (University of North Carolina Press, 1980)
• News and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac’s Gazette de Leyde (Cornell University Press, 1989)
• Revolutionary News: The Press in France, 1789-1799 (Duke University Press, 1990)
• History of Modern France (Prentice Hall, 1994, 2001-2006)
• Short History of the French Revolution (Prentice Hall, 1995, 5th ed. 2010)
• Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835 (Penn State U.P., 2002)
• History, Historians and Autobiography (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
• Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Edited volumes:

• Press and Politcs in Pre-Revolutionary France (University of California Press, 1987, co-edited with Jack Censer)
• Media and Revolution (University Press of Kentucky, 1995)
• The Mémoires secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France (Voltaire Foundation, 1998, co-edited with Bernadette Fort)
• Panorama of Paris:L.-S. Mercier’s Tableau de Paris (Penn State University Press, 1999)
• The Abbé Grégoire and His Causes (Kluwer Publishing, 2000 co-edited with Richard H. Popkin).
• Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Periodical Press (Voltaire Foundaton, 2004, co-edited with H.-J. Lϋsebriuk)
• The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin (Springer, 2008)

Over 150 journal articles, contributions to collective publications and articles in reference works, including articles in American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, Historical Journal, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Journalism Quarterly, Jewish Social Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, A/b: Auto/biography Studies, Biography, New Literary History, History and Memory.