Books
- Let There Be Light: The Electric Utility Industry in Wisconsin (Madison: American History Research Center, 1957)
- We The People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958; new ed. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1992)
- Insull (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962)
- E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1965; new ed., Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979)
- The Presidency of George Washington (University Press of Kansas, 1974, paperback ed., 1985) excerpt and text search
- The Phaeton Ride: The Crisis of American Success (Doubleday, 1974)
- The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (University Press of Kansas, 1976; paperback ed., 1987) excerpt and text search
- Alexander Hamilton: A Biography (Norton, 19790) online edition
- The American People, textbook with David Burner and Eugene D. Genovese; Revisionary Press, 1980 online edition
- Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (University Press of Kansas, 1985) excerpt and text search (1986 Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
- Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes (University Press of Kansas, 1988), with Ellen Shapiro McDonald
- The American Presidency: An Intellectual History (University Press of Kansas, 1994; paperback ed., 1995) excerpt and text search
- States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (University Press of Kansas, 2000) excerpt and text search
- Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir (2004), autobiography excerpt and text search
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