My Publications


• Article, “`Fighting Black Power-New left coalitions: Covert FBI media campaigns and American cultural discourse, 1967-1971” European Journal of American Culture, 27:2, (2008): 65-91.

• Article, "The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE and the Decline Ku Klux Klan Organizations in Alabama, 1964-1971," Alabama Review, 61, February 2008.

• Article, “From White Supremacy to White Power: The FBI’s COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE Operation and the “Nazification” of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s,” American Studies, 48:3 (Fall 2007): 49-74.

• Article, “The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE and the Decline of Ku Klux Klan Organizations in Mississippi, 1964-1971,” Journal of Mississippi History, 66:4 (Winter, 2004): 353-401.

• Article, John Drabble, "From Pinkerton to G-Man: The Transition from Private to State Political Repression, 1873-1956,” Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 20:3 (Fall 2004), 57-82.

• Article, "To Ensure Domestic Tranquility:” The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE, and Political Discourse, 1964-1971," Journal of American Studies, 38:2 (August, 2004): 297-328.


• Book Chapter, “‘A Negative and Unwise Approach’: Private Detectives,
Vigilantes and the FBI Counterintelligence, 1917-1971,” in Clive Emsley and Haia Shpayer-Makov ed., Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950, (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2005], Chapter 10.


• Conference Proceeding, “‘Fidelity, Integrity, Bravery’: An Analysis of the FBI’s Campaign to Discredit the ‘Cowardly Jackals’ of the Ku Klux Klan, 1964-1971” in Matthew Sweney and Michal Peprnik eds. "America: Home of the Brave," The 11th American Studies Colloquium. (Olomouc: Palacky University Press, 2005), 103-136.


• Encyclopedia Entries, “COINTELPRO,” “Hoover, J. Edgar,” “Ku Klux Klan,” in Leslie Alexander & Walter Rucker, editors, The Encyclopedia of African American History, History (forthcoming, ABC-CLIO, 2009).

• Encyclopedia Entries, “Brown Scare,” “Ku Klux Klan,” “Nazis and Neo-Nazis,” in Peter Knight ed., Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003).


My Working Papers:

• Article, FBI Covert Operations, Inter-police Relations, and the Suppression of Ku Klux Klan Terrorism, 1964-1971, to be submitted to Terrorism and Political Violence by May 2009.

• Book, Even Paranoids Have Enemies: The FBI Covert Action Program Against White Hate Groups, 1964-1971.