United States history to the 1830s; history of the family; history of women.

American Rebublic (History 21:512:343), Fall 2005

History of American Thought: The History and Literature of Race in America to c. 1865 (History 21:512:309), Fall 2004

Senior Seminar: Readings (History 21:510:489), Fall 2003

History of American Thought: The History and Literature of Race in America to c. 1865 (History 21:512:309), Fall 2003

Problems and Readings, Early America: The Age of Revolutions (History 16:510:555), Fall 2002

Problems and Readings in American History in the 19th Century (History 16:510:557), Fall 2001

American Historiography: Writing American History (History 26:510:566), Fall 1997

The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic, co-edited with James Horn and Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia Press, 2002).

Making a Nation: The United States and Its People, with Jeanne Boydston, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, and Michael McGerr (Prentice Hall, 2002).

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture, co-edited with Peter S. Onuf (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999).

The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

"The Representation of Women in the Constitution," in Sibyl Schwarzenbach and Patricia Smith, eds., Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice (Columbia University Press forthcoming 2003).

Gilder-Lehrman Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Spring 2003.

Chair, Committee on Women Historians, American Historical Association.

Editorial Board, American Historical Review.

Member and Past Chair, New Jersey Historical Commission.