- River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain
- Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth-Century America
- Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers: From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code
- Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men: Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories (Southern Literary Studies)
- Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (Southern Literary Studies)