Books
- A Short History of Georgia (1933, 1947, and 1960)
- History of Georgia (1954), a junior high school textbook
- The South During Reconstruction (1947)
- Confederate States of America (1952)
- William G. Brownlow: Fighting Parson of the Southern Highlands (1939)
- The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky (1926)
- Auraria: The Story of a Georgia Gold-Mining Town (1956)
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