He has written several books on those subjects, including Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine, which was described as "a biography of Fontaine is as good a story as that life itself."[2]
Puritans in Babylon – the Ancient Near East & American Intellectual Life 1880–1930: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930, 1996
Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008.
Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2015. Co-author with Emmanuel Gerard.