| Steel drivin'man: John Henry, the untold story of an American legend SR Nelson Oxford University Press, 2006 | 168 | 2006 |
| Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction SR Nelson Univ of North Carolina Press, 1999 | 122 | 1999 |
| A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters SR Nelson Vintage, 2012 | 114 | 2012 |
| A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War SR Nelson, C Sheriff Oxford University Press, 2007 | 104 | 2007 |
| Who put their capitalism in my slavery? SR Nelson Journal of the Civil War Era 5 (2), 289-310, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| The real great depression SR Nelson The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review 55 (8), B98, 2008 | 29* | 2008 |
| Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways SR Nelson Klan Violence, and Reconstruction (Chapel Hill, 1999) 6, 1999 | 26 | 1999 |
| Livestock, Boundaries, and Public Space in Spartanburg: African-American Men, Elite White Women and the Spectacle of Conjugal Relations S Nelson Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, 313-327, 1999 | 16 | 1999 |
| A storm of cheap goods: New American commodities and the panic of 1873 SR Nelson The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10 (4), 447-453, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World SR Nelson | 14 | 2022 |
| Ain't nothing but a man: My quest to find the real John Henry SR Nelson, M Aronson National Geographic Books, 2008 | 13 | 2008 |
| Red Strings and Half Brothers: Civil Wars in Alamance County, North Carolina SR Nelson Enemies of the Country: Unionism in the South During the Civil War, 37-53, 2001 | 12* | 2001 |
| ‘Django’Untangled: the Legend of the Bad Black Man SR Nelson The Chronicle of Higher Education 11, 2013 | 10 | 2013 |
| After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or The Search for Liquid Labor SR Nelson Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World …, 2007 | 10 | 2007 |
| Who was John Henry? Railroad construction, southern folklore, and the birth of rock and roll S Nelson Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 2 (2), 53-80, 2005 | 7 | 2005 |
| Film Roundtable: 12 Years a Slave NZ Davis, J Downs, S Nelson, SE O’Donovan, M Washington Civil War History 60 (3), 310-336, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| The Confederacy Serves the Southern: The Construction of the Southern Railway Network, 1861-65 S Nelson Civil War History 41 (3), 227-243, 1995 | 6 | 1995 |
| The Ordeal of Eugene Debs: The Panic of 1893, the Pullman Strike, and the Origins of the Progressive Movement SR Nelson Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises, 99-109, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| A Financial Crisis in Prints and Cartoons SR Nelson The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10 (4), 425-433, 2011 | 3 | 2011 |
| An American War of Incarceration: Guerilla Warfare, Occupation, and Imprisonment in the American South, 1863-1865 SR Nelson Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire, 115-128, 2009 | 3* | 2009 |
Marc AronsonFaculty, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers UniversityVerified email at rutgers.edu
