“Participatory Documentary: Recording the Sound of Equality in the Southern Civil Rights Movement,” in Sara Blair, Joseph Entin, and Franny Nudelman, editors, Remaking Reality: US Documentary Culture After 1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018)
“Acting Out: The Athens Scene Versus Reagan’s America,” in The Bohemian South (Lindsey Freeman and Shawn Chandler Bingham editors) (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
“Documentary Noise: The Soundscape of Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, U.S.A.,” Southern Cultures (Spring 2017): 10-32
“Port Huron, the New Left and the Romance of Rebellion” Port Huron at 50, Nelson Lichtenstein, editor, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
“‘My Political Beliefs Are Songs’: Pete Seeger in Cold War America,” in Kathleen Donohue, ed., Liberty and Justice for All? Rethinking Politics in Cold War America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012)
“‘Hear Me Talking to You’: The Blues and the Romance of Rebellion,” in Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
“Black as Folk: The Folk Music Revival, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Romance of the Outsider,” in Joe Crespino and Matt Lassiter, eds. The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford University Press, 2009)
"‘We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves’: Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain,” co-authored with Robert Jackson, in Rick Moreland, ed., Blackwell’s Companion to William Faulkner (London and New York: Blackwell, 2006)
“Invisible Men: William Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and the Politics of Loving and Hating the South in the Civil Rights Era, or How does a Rebel Rebel?” in Donald Kartiganer, ed., William Faulkner and His Contemporaries (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2004)
“Riding on the Train: Segregation and the Problem of Middle Class Travelers” in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Second Edition, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
“Granite Stopped Time: The Stone Mountain Memorial and Representations of White Southern Identity” in Cynthia Mills, ed., Monuments to the Lost Cause (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003)
"For ‘Colored’ and For ‘White’: Bounding Consumption in the South," in Glenda Gilmore, Jane Dailey, and Bryant Simon, eds., Jumping Jim Crow: The New Political History of the New South (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
"Granite Stopped Time: The Stone Mountain Memorial and Representations of White Southern Identity," Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (Spring 1998), 20-44
"Clocks for Seeing: Technologies of Memory, Popular Aesthetics, and the Home Movie," co-author Beth Loffreda, Rutgers University, Radical History Review (Winter 1997), special issue: the history of popular culture, 163-71
"Deadly Amusements: Spectacle Lynchings and Southern Whiteness, 1890-1940," in Varieties of Southern History, ed. John Salmond and Bruce Clayton (New York: Greenwood Press, 1996), 63-78
"'Some Women Have Never Been Reconstructed': Mildred L. Rutherford, Lucy M. Stanton, and the Racial Politics of White Southern Womanhood, 1900-1930," in Georgia in Black and White, ed. John Inscoe (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 173-201
"'In Terms of Paint': Lucy Stanton's Representations of the South, 1890-1931," Georgia Historical Quarterly 77 (Fall 1993) 577-92