Books:
with Catherine Cocks and Peter Holloran. Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Co-editor with Christof Mauch. Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America. New York and Washington: Berghahn Books and Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 2005. German edition: Adolf Cluss, Revolutionär und Architekt: Von Heilbronn nach Washington. Heilbronn: Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, 2005. [Henry-Russell Hitchcock Prize, Victorian Society in America, 2006]

with William Otton and Amy Smith Kight. Legacy: A History of the Art Museum of South Texas. Corpus Christi: Art Museum of South Texas, 1997. 

The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861-1902. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. [A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book" for 1994]

Selected Articles and Chapters:
"Corpus Christi, 1965-2005: A Secondary City's Search for a New Direction," Journal of Urban
History 35, n. 1 (Nov. 2008), 108-33.

"Washington, D.C., under Federal Rule, 1871-1945." Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities. Ed. Andreas Daum and Christof Mauch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 235-62.

"Harland Bartholomew and Corpus Christi: The Faltering Pursuit of Comprehensive Planning in South Texas," Planning Perspectives 18, n. 2 (April 2003), 197-232.

"Washington-Berlin, 1871-1945: Nation-State, Capital, and Metropolis," Proteus 20, n. 1 (April 2003), 45-52.

"Alexander R. Shepherd: The Haussmannization of Washington." The Human Tradition in Urban America. Ed. Roger Biles. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2002. Pp. 53-69.

"Progress before Modernization: Foreign Interpretations of American Development in James Bryce's Generation," American Nineteenth Century History 1, n. 2 (Summer 2000), 69-96.

"Public Sculpture in Corpus Christi: A Tangled Struggle to Define the Character and Shape the Agenda of One Texas City," Journal of Urban History 26, n. 2 (Jan. 2000), 190-223.

"A Texas City and the Texas Myth: Urban Historical Identity in Corpus Christi," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100, n. 3 (Jan. 1997), 305-29.

"Corpus Christi: A Regional City for South Texas," Touchstone 15 (1996), 53-70.

"Washington Insider: The Early Career of Charles Moore," Washington History 6, n.2 (Fall/Winter 1994-95), 64-80.

"Gilded Age Washington: Promotional Capital of the Nation." Washington: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Ed. Lothar Hönnighausen and Andreas Falke. Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 1993. Pp. 35-49.

Current Projects:
Corpus Christi: A City of the South Texas Coast. Revised articles with new chapters added, currently writing.

American Modernism. Conference volume co-edited with Thomas Welskopp.

Usable Pasts. A study of the historical thought of Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford. Several articles, with luck leading to a book.