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As a scholar, Professor Painter has published numerous books, articles, reviews, and other essays. Her most recent books are The History of White People, Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present and Southern History Across the Color Line. Six earlier books are also still in print.

Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present, published by Oxford University Press, shows how African Americans have drawn on art and history to develop their identity in the United States.

Books Authored by Nell Painter

• I Just Keep Talking—A Life in Essays
• The History of White People
• Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
• Southern History Across the Color Line
• Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol
• Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919
• The Narrative of Hosea Hudson
• Exodusters

Books Edited by Nell Painter

• Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, edited by Nell Painter
• Sojourner Truth's Narrative, edited by Nell Painter

Articles by Nell Painter

Reviews by Nell Painter