Political History (General)
“Ten Propositions for the New Political History,” concluding essay for the anthology Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2019), edited by Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason Williams.
“Political History Beyond the Red-Blue Divide,” Journal of American History (December 2011), 760-764, part of a roundtable on “Conservatism: A State of the Field.”
–This article inspired a “State of the Field: U.S. Political History since 1945” roundtable at the 2014 Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, organized/moderated by Lassiter and featuring Gary Gerstle, George Sanchez, Bethany Moreton, Marisa Chappell, and Suleiman Osman (video at link).
“Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt,” in Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region in the American South and Southwest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), edited by Darren Dochuk and Michelle Nickerson.
“Beyond the Red-Blue Divide,” in “Special Forum: The Sixties and the 2008 Presidential Election,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture (June 2009).
“Inventing Family Values,” in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (Harvard University Press, 2007), edited by Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer.
“Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar Political Culture,” in The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, ed. Julian E. Zelizer, Meg Jacobs, and William Novak (Princeton University Press, 2003), 327-49.Carceral State/Crime and Drug Policy
Carceral State/War on Drugs
“Tough and Smart: The Resilience of the War on Drugs during the Obama Administration,” in The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2018), edited by Julian Zelizer.
“Impossible Criminals: The Suburban Imperatives of America’s War on Drugs,” Journal of American History (June 2015), part of special issue “Historians and the Carceral State,” edited by Kelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson.
“Pushers, Victims, and the Lost Innocence of White Suburbia: California’s War on Narcotics during the 1950s,” Journal of Urban History (September 2015), part of special issue “Rethinking Urban America through the Lens of the Carceral State,” edited by Heather Ann Thompson and Donna Murch.
Suburban History (General)
“Suburban Diversity in Postwar America,” Journal of Urban History (January 2013), coauthored with Christopher Niedt. This essay introduced a Special Section on Suburban Diversity, edited by Lassiter and Niedt, with contributions from Wendy Cheng, Farrah D. Gafford, Sarah Potter, and Michan Andrew Connor.
“Schools and Housing in Metropolitan History,” Journal of Urban History (March 2012). This essay introduced a Special Section on Educational Policy and Housing Markets in 20th-Century U.S. History, edited by Lassiter, with contributions from Jack Dougherty, Karen Benjamin, and Ansley T. Erickson.
“The Bulldozer Revolution: Suburbs and Southern History since World War II,” Journal of Southern History (August 2009), coauthored with Kevin M. Kruse. Part of a Special Issue Commemorating Seventy-Five Years of the Journal of Southern History.
“The New Suburban History II: Political Culture and Metropolitan Space,” Journal of Planning History (Feb. 2005).
Civil Rights and Legal History (General)
“De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth,” in The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford University Press, 2009), edited by Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph Crespino.
“The ‘Color-Blind’ Inversion of Civil Rights History,” Roundtable on the America of George W. Bush, Revue Francaise D’Etudes Americaines (Sept. 2007).
“Race over Region,” Reviews in American History (March 2007).
“Does the Supreme Court Matter? Civil Rights and the Inherent Politicization of Constitutional Law,” Michigan Law Review (May 2005).
Essays Related to The Silent Majority
“Searching for Respect: From ‘New South’ to ‘World Class’ at the Crossroads of the Carolinas,” in Charlotte, N.C.: The Global Evolution of a New South City (University of Georgia Press, 2010), , edited by William Graves and Heather A. Smith.
“Socioeconomic Integration in the Suburbs: From Reactionary Populism to Class Fairness in Metropolitan Charlotte,” in The New Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 2006), edited Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue.
“The Suburban Origins of ‘Color-Blind’ Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis,” Journal of Urban History (May 2004).
–Republished by the Organization of American Historians in The Best American History Essays 2006, ed. Joyce Appleby (Palgrave, 2006).