She is the author of Digitizing the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1991), co-editor with Helen Hornbeck Tanner of The Settling of North America (1995), co-editor with James R. Grossman and Ann Durkin Keating of the prize-winning Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004), lead editor with Keating and Grossman of the Encyclopedia of Chicago Online (2005, www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org), editor of the forthcoming Guide to Chicago Business and Industry (2013), and is currently completing a manuscript tentatively titled Manufacturing Communities: Pullman Workers and Their Towns, 1881-1981.