Research

Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023). 

Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs (University of Chicago Press, 2019).  

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). 

Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2003).

New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics, 1920-1935 (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

“Dividing the City: Race-Restrictive Covenants and the Architecture of Segregation in St. Louis, Journal of Urban History (2023) 49:1, 160-182.

“Risky Business: Health Care Before and After Trump,” Political Power and Social Theory 39 (2023), 107-126.

“Dress Rehearsal for Shelley: Scovel Richardson and the Fight Against Racial Covenants in St. Louis,” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 67 (2022), 87-109.

(***with Kennedy Gardener Moehrs) “Zoned Out: Creve Coeur, Malcolm Terrace, and the Struggle for Affordable Housing in Suburban St. Louis,” ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law 30:3 (2022), 403-436.

“Our Segregated Century,” Reviews in American History 49:1 (March 2021)

(***with Sarah K. Bruch) “Home Inequity: Race, Wealth and Housing in St. Louis,” Housing Studies 35:9 (2019).

“Patchwork Metropolis: Fragmented Governance and Urban Decline in Greater St. Louis,” St. Louis University Public Law Review 34:1 (2014), 51-70.

“St. Louis Blues: The Urban Crisis in the Gateway City” St. Louis University Public Law Review 33:1 (2103), 81-92.

“Lost in Space, Or Confessions of an Accidental Geographer, International Journal of History and Computing 5:1 (2011), 1-22.

"Blighting the Way: Urban Renewal, Economic Development, and the Elusive Definition of ‘Blight’," Fordham Urban Law Journal 31:2 (January 2004), 305-337; reprinted in Patricia Salkin (ed), 2005 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (Thomson-West, 2005), pp. 956-986. 

 “A Poisonous Past,” Reviews in American History (December 2003), 611-14.

 “The Lost City of Solidarity: Metropolitan Unionism in Historical Perspective,” Politics and Society 27:4 (December 1999), 557-581; also published by University of Washington Labor Center, Working Paper #8 (March 1999).

“Why Wagner? A Response to Robert Zieger,” Journal of Policy History 11:2 (1999), 201-6.

“Rethinking the New Deal,” Columbia Law Review 98:8 (December 1998), 2029-54.

“Why No Corporatism in the United States?: Business Disorganization and its Consequences,” Business and Economic History 27:1 (Fall 1998), 29-46; also published as “Perche Negli Stati Uniti non si e Affermato il Corporatismo,” Passato e Presente [Italy] 45 (Dec. 1998), 93-112.

 “Why No Health Insurance in the United States?  The Limits of Social Provision in War and Peace, 1941-1948," Journal of Policy History 9:3 (1997), 277-310.

“Does the Ruling Class Rule?” Reviews in American History 25:2 (June 1997), 288-293.

 “Still Searching for Progressivism,” Reviews in American History 23 (1995): 669-674.

"Lessons of History? Past and Present in the Gulf War," Radical History Review 55 (Winter 1993): 135-144.

"Dead On Arrival: Health Care Reform in the United States," Studies in Political Economy 39 (Autumn 1992): 141-158.

"New Deal, Old Deck: Business and the Origins of Social Security, 1920-1935." Politics and Society 19 (June 1991): 165-207.

"Crafting a Usable Past: Consensus, Ideology, and Historians of the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly 46 (Oct.  1989): 671-695.

"The Modern American Presidency, 1945-1974: A Bibliographical Essay." Canadian Review of American Studies 16 (1985): 425-441

Book Chapters

“The Dispossessed: Urban Renewal and Relocation in St. Louis County,” In Douglas Appler, ed. The Forgotten Geographies of Urban Renewal (Temple University Press, 2023)

“Left Out: Health Security and the American Welfare State,” in Martin Halliwell and Sophie Jones (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

(***with Sarah K. Bruch) “States of Welfare: Federalism, Localism, and US Social Policies.” In Y. Kazepov, E. Barberis and R. Cucca (eds), Handbook of Urban Social Policies (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022). 352-368.

“American Inequality: A Primer,” in Barbara Hahn and Kersten Schmidt (eds), Inequality in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017), 9-24.

“Making Ferguson: Segregation and Uneven Development in Greater St. Louis,” in Kimberly Norwood (ed), Ferguson Fault Lines (American Bar Association, 2016), 75-97.

“My Life as a Wonk,” in McKerley, Deslippe, and Slocum (eds), Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working Class Studies (Illinois, 2016).