| We shall be no more: Suicide and self-government in the newly United States R Bell Harvard University Press, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
| Slave suicide, abolition and the problem of resistance R Bell Slavery & Abolition 33 (4), 525-549, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America ML Tarter, R Bell University of Georgia Press, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| In Werther's Thrall: suicide and the power of sentimental reading in Early National America R Bell Early American Literature 46 (1), 93-120, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Emile Durkheim G Ritzer, R Bell Emile Durkheim: Critical Assessments of Leading Sociologists 1 (4), 164, 2001 | 23 | 2001 |
| The double guilt of dueling: The stain of suicide in anti-dueling rhetoric in the early republic R Bell Journal of the Early Republic 29 (3), 383-410, 2009 | 21 | 2009 |
| Stolen: Five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home R Bell 37 Ink, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| “Our people die well”: Deathbed scenes in John Wesley's Arminian magazine RJ Bell Mortality 10 (3), 210-223, 2005 | 12 | 2005 |
| Counterfeit kin: Kidnappers of color, the reverse underground railroad, and the origins of practical abolition R Bell Journal of the Early Republic 38 (2), 199-230, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| ‘Thence to Patty Cannon’s’: gender, family, and the reverse Underground Railroad R Bell Slavery & Abolition 37 (4), 661-679, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| The great jugular vein of slavery: New histories of the domestic slave trade R Bell History Compass 11 (12), 1150-1164, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| Do Not Despair: The Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1780-1840: a Dissertation RJ Bell Harvard University, 2006 | 8 | 2006 |
| The moral thermometer: Rush, republicanism, and suicide R Bell Early American Studies 15 (2), 308-331, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America R Bell The History of Reading, Volume 1: International Perspectives, c. 1500–1990 …, 2011 | 4 | 2011 |
| Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge R Bell Journal of the Civil War Era 12 (3), 362-387, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| America's Long Struggle Against Slavery R Bell Teaching Company, 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
| “Principally Children”: Kidnapping, Child Trafficking, and the Mission of Early National Antislavery Activism R Bell Journal of American History 109 (1), 46-67, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Slave Suicide, Abolition and the Problem of Resistance R Bell Slavery & Abolition 34 (4), 782-782, 2013 | 1 | 2013 |
| Whither the early republic: A forum on the future of the field RJ Bell The William and Mary Quarterly 64 (4), 884-886, 2007 | 1 | 2007 |
| Friends of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies J Adelman, GJ Ahern, S Altschuler, D Andrews, J Balz, MEB McDaniel, ... Early American Studies, 2023 | | 2023 |
