| Antislavery science in the early republic: The case of Dr. Benjamin Rush E Herschthal Early American Studies 15 (2), 274-307, 2017 | 23 | 2017 |
| Slaves, Spaniards, and Subversion in Early Louisiana: The Persistent Fears of Black Revolt and Spanish Collusion in Territorial Louisiana, 1803–1812 E Herschthal Journal of the Early Republic 36 (2), 283-311, 2016 | 17 | 2016 |
| The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress E Herschthal Yale University Press, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| "Climate Change," in Oxford Handbook of Global Commodities History J Brooke, E Herschthal Oxford University Press, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Frederick Douglass on Science and Technology, in Frederick Douglass in Context, ed. Michael Roy E Herschthal Cambridge University Press, 2022 | | 2022 |
| How Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Novel Reckons With the Past E Herschthal The New Republic, 2019 | | 2019 |
| What we get wrong about the roots of slavery in America E Herschthal The Washington Post, 2019 | | 2019 |
| Medicalzing Blackness by Rana Hogarth - Book Review E Herschthal Journal of the Early Republic, 2019 | | 2019 |
| When Violence Broke Out in Congress E Herschthal The New Republic, 2018 | | 2018 |
| Frederick Douglass's Fight Against Scientific Racism E Herschthal The New York Times, 2018 | | 2018 |
| Tropical Freedom by Ikuko Asaka - Book Review E Herschthal The Historian, 2018 | | 2018 |
| The Making of an Antislavery President E Herschthal The New Republic, 2017 | | 2017 |
| The Making of an Antislavery President E Herschthal The New Republic, 2017 | | 2017 |
| The Missing Link: Conservative Abolitionists, Slavery and Yale E Herscthal Black Perspectives - African American Intellectual History Society Blog, 2017 | | 2017 |
| Vanishing America by Miles Powell - Book Review E Herschthal Civil War Book Review, 2017 | | 2017 |
| Empire of Humanity by Amanda Moniz E Herschthal Reviews in History, 2017 | | 2017 |
| The Science of Antislavery: Scientists, Abolitionism, and the Myth of Slavery's Backwardness E Herschthal Columbia University, 2017 | | 2017 |
| America's First Civil War E Herschthal Slate, 2016 | | 2016 |
| When All Men Were Created Separate, But Equal E Herschthal The New Republic, 2016 | | 2016 |
| Renovating the American Revolution: The Most Important Stories Aren't On Broadway E Herschthal Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, 2016 | | 2016 |
