Books
- Lincoln's Herndon (1948)
- Divided We Fought: A Pictorial History of the War, 1861—1865 (1952)
- Editor, Inside Lincoln's Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase. (1954)
- Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era (1947, 2nd edition 1961) (ISBN 0-679-72310-2)
- Editor, Why the North Won the Civil War (1962) (ISBN 0-02-031660-7)
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1961; 2001) (ISBN 0-393-97427-8), 2001 edition with Jean H. Baker & Michael F. Holt; 1961 edition with James G. Randall.
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (1960), prize-winning scholarly biography to 1860; Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (1970), biography from 1861.
- Politics of Reconstruction, 1863-—1867 (1965)
- Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, Harvard University Press (2003) (ISBN 0-674-00869-3)
- Lincoln (1996) ISBN 0-684-80846-3
- Lincoln at Home: Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Domestic Life (1999) ISBN 978-0-912308-77-7
- We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (2003) (ISBN 0-7432-5468-6)
- Editor with Aida DiPace Donald, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volumes 1 and 2, January 1820 - September 1829, Harvard University Press.
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