His book, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in Spring 2015. Earlier, Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908 was published by University of North Carolina Press in 2011. Articles and essays placing the remaking of the South in global context have appeared in the American Historical Review, Journal of Southern History, and edited volumes. He is also a published fiction writer; his book Spit Baths won the Flannery O’Connor Award and was published by University of Georgia Press in 2006.