| A disability history of the United States KE Nielsen Beacon Press, 2012 | 720 | 2012 |
| Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare KE Nielsen Ohio State University Press, 2001 | 178* | 2001 |
| The radical lives of Helen Keller KE Nielsen New York University Press, 2004 | 141 | 2004 |
| The Oxford handbook of disability history M Rembis, CJ Kudlick, K Nielsen Oxford University Press, 2018 | 78 | 2018 |
| Beyond the Miracle Worker: The remarkable life of Anne Sullivan Macy and her extraordinary friendship with Helen Keller KE Nielsen Beacon Press, 2009 | 52 | 2009 |
| Helen Keller and the politics of civic fitness K Nielsen The new disability history: American perspectives, 268-290, 2001 | 28 | 2001 |
| Helen Keller: Selected Writings KE Nielsen NYU Press, 2005 | 24 | 2005 |
| Historical thinking and disability history KE Nielsen Disability Studies Quarterly 28 (3), 2008 | 21 | 2008 |
| Doing the" right" right KE Nielsen Journal of Women's History 16 (3), 168-172, 2004 | 21 | 2004 |
| Property, Disability, and the Making of the Incompetent Citizen in the United States, 1880s–1940s KE Nielsen Disability Histories, 308-320, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| Using biography to teach disability history KE Nielsen OAH magazine of history 23 (3), 41-44, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| What’sa patriotic man to do? Patriotic masculinities of the post–WWI red scare KE Nielsen Men and Masculinities 6 (3), 240-253, 2004 | 12 | 2004 |
| The Oxford handbook of disability history C Kudlick, M Rembis, C Kudlick, K Nielsen Social History of Medicine and Disability History 1, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| The Perils and Promises of Disability Biography KE Nielsen The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, 21-40, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Helen keller: Selected writings H Keller NYU Press, 2005 | 11 | 2005 |
| Who Were These Farmer Radicals? The Douglas County Farm Holiday Association KE Nielsen Minnesota History 51 (7), 270-280, 1989 | 10 | 1989 |
| Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott KE Nielsen University of Illinois Press, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| The southern ties of Helen Keller KE Nielsen The Journal of Southern History 73 (4), 783-806, 2007 | 9 | 2007 |
| Civic labors: scholar activism and working-class studies K Anderson, DE Atkinson, JR Barrett, SR Breitzer, S Chandler, S Davies, ... University of Illinois Press, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| The security of the nation: anti-radicalism and gender in the Red Scare of 1918-1928 KE Nielsen The University of Iowa, 1996 | 8 | 1996 |
