His book Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers won the North Caroliniana Society Book of the Year Award for 2007. He has written numerous articles on civil liberties, civil rights, and North Carolina history. In 2003 his essay “Claghorn’s Hammurabi: Senator Sam Ervin and Civil Rights,” won the Robert D.W. Conner Award for the best article published in the North Carolina Historical Review. His present projects include writing a biography of Governor Luther Hodges and editing a book of essays tentatively titled North Carolina Revised: Towards a New History of the Old North State. Campbell lives in Banner Elk.