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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War (Basic Books: New York, 2008)

"The News from Occupied Flatbush," America in Britain 43 (2005).

"Kings County," in Joseph S. Tiedemann and Eugene R. Fingerhut (eds.), The Other New York: The American Revolution Beyond New York City (2005)

"Manhattan at War" in Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin (eds.) After the Trade Center (Routledge, 2002), 23-32.

"Introduction" to Thomas A. Janvier, In Old New York (St. Martin’s Press: New York, 2000)

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. With Mike Wallace (Oxford Univ. Press: New York, 1999)

"Corruption," in Eric Foner and John A. Garraty (eds.), The Reader's Companion to American History . (Boston, 1991)

Albert Gallatin and the Political Economy of Republicanism. (New York, 1986)

"Corruption in Government," in Jack P. Greene (ed.),Encyclopedia of American Political History. (New York, 1984)
 

2003/ Distinguished Professor of History, Brooklyn College

2002-03/ Visiting Distinguished Professor of History at Hofstra University

2002/ Selected for the Distinguished Lectureship Series of the Organization of American Historians (3-year term); chosen "favorite professor" in Brooklyn College Yearbook

2001/ Named Broeklundian Professor of History at Brooklyn College; recipient of the Presidential Medal at Hofstra University; named Author of the Year by the Presbyterian Writers Guild.

2000/ Elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians; awarded the Washington Irving medal by the St. Nicholas Society; recipient of the Wolfe Fellowship, Brooklyn College.

1999/ Pulitzer Prize in History for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898; recipient of the Brendan Gill Award from the Municipal Art Society; Gotham chosen Best Book of the Year by the New York Society Library; named Claire and Leonard Tow Professor of History for 1999-2000; recipient of the Brooklyn College Award for Creative Achievement.

1998/ Named a "Centennial Historian of New York"

1995/ Voted "Best Core 4 Teacher" by student newspaper, Excelsior

1992/ Recipient of the Wolfe Fellowship, Brooklyn College
 

I have two projects currently underway. (1) a study of New York's Crystal Palace, which stood from 1853 to 1858 on Reservoir Square (now the site of Bryant Park); and (2) a book about the social experience of the American Revolution as reflected in the stories of a half-dozen communities. I am also gathering materials for books on the history of historical writing about New York City as well as the history of  political corruption in the United States.