Arabus Family Saga (with Christopher Collier)
Jump Ship to Freedom (1981)
War Comes to Willy Freeman (1983)
Who Is Carrie? (1984)

Battleground: The United States Army in World War II (1965)
A Visit to the Firehouse (1966)
The Teddy Bear Habit (1967)
Fires of Youth (1968)
Danny Goes to the Hospital. (1970)
Rock Star (1970)
Why Does Everybody Think I'm Nutty? (1971)
The Hard Life of the Teenager (1972)
It's Murder At St. Basket's (1972)
Rich and Famous: The Further Adventures of George Stable (1975)
The Bloody Country (1976) (with Christopher Collier)
The Winter Hero (1978) (with Christopher Collier)
Give Dad My Best (1982)
Planet Out of the Past (1983)
My Brother Sam Is Dead (1984) (with Christopher Collier)
When the Stars Begin to Fall (1986)
The Winchesters (1988)
Outside Looking in (1990)
The Clock (1992) (with Christopher Collier)
My Crooked Family (1993)
With Every Drop of Blood (1994) (with Christopher Collier)
The Corn Raid: A Story of the Jamestown Settlement (2000)
Chipper (2001)
The Worst of Times: A Story of the Great Depression (2001)
Wild Boy (2002)
Me and Billy (2004)
The Empty Mirror (2004)
The Dreadful Revenge of Ernest Gallen (2008)

The Chub Peabody Story: A Portrait in Courage (1964)
Which Musical Instrument Shall I Play? (1969)
Practical Music Theory: How Music Is Put Together from Bach to Rock (1970)
Inside Jazz (1973)
Jug Bands and Handmade Music: A Creative Approach to Music Theory and the Instruments (1973)
The Making of Man: The Story of Our Ancient Ancestors (1974)
Making Music for Money (1976)
CB: A Concise Guide (1977)
The Making of Jazz (1978)
Great Jazz Artists (1979)
Louis Armstrong, an American Genius (1983)
Decision in Philadelphia (1987) (with Christopher Collier)
Duke Ellington (1987)
Reception of Jazz in America (1988)
Benny Goodman and the Swing Era (1990)
Votescam: The Stealing of America (1993)
The Rise of Selfishness in America (1994)
Jazz: An American Saga (1995)
Andrew Jackson's America: 1824-1850 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
Building a New Nation: 1789-1803 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
Creating the Constitution: 1787 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
Hispanic America, Texas, and the Mexican War 1835: 1850 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
The Jeffersonian Republicans: 1800-1823 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
The American Revolution: 1763-1783 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
The Clash of Cultures: Prehistory-1638 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
The French and Indian War: 1660-1763 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
The Paradox of Jamestown: 1585-1700 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
Pilgrims and Puritans: 1620-1676 (1998) (with Christopher Collier)
Indians, Cowboys, and Farmers: 1865-1910 (2000) (with Christopher Collier)
The Rise of the Cities: 1820-1920 (2000) (with Christopher Collier)
The United States Enters the World Stage: From Alaska Purchase Through World War I, 1867-1919 (2000)
A Century of Immigration: 1820-1924 (2000) (with Christopher Collier)
The Civil War: 1860-1865 (2000) (with Christopher Collier)
Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow: 1864-1896 (2000) (with Christopher Collier)
The Rise of Industry: 1860-1900 (2000) (with Christopher Collier)
Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War: 1831-1861 (2000) (with Christopher Collier)
The Changing Face of America: 1945-2000 (2001) (with Christopher Collier)
The United States in the Cold War: 1945-1989 (2001) (with Christopher Collier)
The United States in World War II (2001)
Progressivism, the Great Depression, and the New Deal: 1901 to 1941 (2001) (with Christopher Collier)
The Middle Road: American Politics, 1945-2000 (2002) (with Christopher Collier)
Clocks (2003)
Vaccines (2003)
The Abraham Lincoln You Never Knew (2003)
The Alexander Hamilton You Never Knew (2003)
The Clara Barton You Never Knew (2003)
The Frederick Douglass You Never Knew (2003)
The George Washington You Never Knew (2003)
The Sitting Bull You Never Knew (2003)
The Eleanor Roosevelt You Never Knew (2004)
The Benjamin Franklin You Never Knew (2004)
The Louis Armstrong You Never Knew (2004)
The Mark Twain You Never Knew (2004)
The Susan B. Anthony You Never Knew (2004)
The Tecumseh You Never Knew (2004)
Gunpowder and Weaponry (2004)
The Automobile (2005)
Electricity and the Lightbulb (2005)
The Steam Engine (2005)
Christopher Columbus: To the New World (2006)