| The economic history of Norway O Grytten EH. Net Encyclopedia: EH. Net Encyclopedia, 2008 | 81* | 2008 |
| Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America SP Adams JHU Press, 2004 | 62 | 2004 |
| Founding corporate power in early national Philadelphia AM Schocket (No Title), 2007 | 43 | 2007 |
| Planter's Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia CH Morgan University Press of Florida, 2005 | 32 | 2005 |
| The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860-1902 RG Healey University of Chicago Press Economics Books, 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century SP Adams JHU Press, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson SP Adams John Wiley & Sons, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| Warming the poor and growing consumers: fuel philanthropy in the early republic's urban north SP Adams The Journal of American History 95 (1), 69-94, 2008 | 20 | 2008 |
| Promotion, competition, captivity: the political economy of coal SP Adams Journal of Policy History 18 (1), 74-95, 2006 | 19 | 2006 |
| The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader SP Adams John Wiley & Sons, 2008 | 14 | 2008 |
| Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal SP Adams Politics, and Economy in, 2004 | 11 | 2004 |
| Partners in geology, brothers in frustration: The antebellum geological surveys of Virginia and Pennsylvania SP Adams The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 106 (1), 5-34, 1998 | 10 | 1998 |
| Soulless Monsters and Iron Horses: The Civil War, Institutional Change, and American Capitalism SP Adams Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century …, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| How Choice Fueled Panic: Philadelphians, Consumption, and the Panic of 1837 SP Adams Enterprise & Society 12 (4), 761-789, 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
| Rails through the wiregrass: a history of the Georgia & Florida railroad HR Grant (No Title), 2006 | 6 | 2006 |
| Different charters, different paths: Corporations and coal in antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia SP Adams Business and Economic History, 78-90, 1998 | 6 | 1998 |
| Old Dominions and Industrial Commonwealths: The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810–1875 SP Adams Enterprise & Society 1 (4), 675-682, 2000 | 5 | 2000 |
| The American coal industry, 1790-1902 SP Adams (No Title), 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
| Hardtack, Canned Beef, and Imperial Misery: Rae Weaver's Journal of the Spanish-American War SP Adams The Wisconsin Magazine of History 81 (4), 242-266, 1998 | 3 | 1998 |
| American Lucifers: the dark history of artificial light, 1750–1865 by Jeremy Zallen S Adams Journal of Southern History 86 (3), 695-696, 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
