Books

• Adam Rothman. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. USA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Articles in journals

• Adam Rothman. "Slavery and National Expansion in the United States." Magazine of History 23.2 (2009).
• Adam Rothman. "Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans and the Caribbean." Atlantic Studies 5.2 (2008): 265-283.
• Adam Rothman. "Beware the Weak State." William and Mary Quarterly 64.2 (2007): 271-274.
• Adam Rothman. "Hurricane Katrina and the Burdens of History." History Compass 4.2 (2006).
• Adam Rothman. "This Guilty Land." Reviews in American History 33.3 (2005): 301-308.

Articles in books

• Adam Rothman. "The South in the Age of Revolution and the Early Republic." The American South: A Reader and Guide. Ed. Dan Letwin. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
• Adam Rothman. "Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction." American History Now. Ed. Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011: 75-95
• Adam Rothman. "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery." Seeing Jefferson Anew in His Time and Ours. Ed. John B. Boles and Randall L. Hall. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.
• Adam Rothman. "The ’Slave Power’ in the United States, 1783-1865." Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy. Ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
• Adam Rothman. "The Domestication of the Slave Trade in the United States." The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. Ed. Walter Johnson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Op eds

• Adam Rothman. "Bet Noire: New Orleans and the Culture of Gambling." The New Republic Online 5 Sep. 2005: .

Edited books

• Michael Kazin (Ed.), Rebecca Edwards (Assoc. Ed.), Adam Rothman (Assoc. Ed.), ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
• Alison Games, Adam Rothman, ed. Major Problems in Atlantic History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Book reviews

• Adam Rothman. "Review of Robert E. Bonner, Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood." American Historical Review 114.5 (2009): 1456-1457.
• Adam Rothman. "Review of Mariana Dantas, Black Townsmen." Hispanic American Historical Review 89.4 (2009): 701-703.
• Adam Rothman. "Review of Ernest Obadele-Starks, "Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade to the United States after 1808"." Journal of Southern History 75.2 (2009): 438-439.
• Adam Rothman. "Review of Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links. By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.." Southern Quarterly 44.3 (2007): 217-220.
• Adam Rothman. "Review of The Sugar Masters by Richard Follett." American Historical Review 111.4 (2006): 1172-1173.
• Adam Rothman. "The British Are Coming." Washington Post Book World (2006): 9.

Other

• Adam Rothman, "Django Unchained’s Bloody Real History in Mississippi," Daily Beast, February 25, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/24/django-unchained-s-bloody-real-history-in-mississippi.html .
• Adam Rothman, "Our Servants Do Pretty Much as They Please," Disunion, New York Times, June 1, 2012, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/our-servants-do-pretty-much-as-they-please/. .
• Adam Rothman, "Beyond The Textbook: Slavery," National History Education Clearinghouse, 2009, http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/beyond-the-textbook/23905..
• Neal A. Novak, "Beyond the Cotton Gin: Dr. Adam Rothman and the Expansion of Slavery in the Deep South," Civil War Book Review, Fall 2006.