Books
Cummins has written or edited eight books and numerous articles on the history of Texas, Louisiana, and the Southwestern United States. As a historian of the Spanish Borderlands, his research interests deal with the advance of the Anglo-American frontier into the Mississippi River valley, Spanish Louisiana and Spanish colonial Texas during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- A Guide to the History of Louisiana (1982)
- A Guide to the History of Texas (1988)
- Texas: A Political History (1990)
- Spanish Observers and the American Revolution (1992)
- Louisiana: A History 4th Edition (2001)
- Austin College: A Sesquicentennial History (1999)
- United States History to 1877 (2006)
- Emily Austin of Texas, 1795-1851 (2009)
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