Manuscripts in Press
Nichols, Joseph R., and Alyssa Ignaczak, “Help Our Public Education (HOPE), Concerned Motherhood, and Integrating Atlanta’s Public Schools.” Georgia Historical Quarterly. (to be published in December 2025 edition)
Nichols, Joseph R., “Brooks v. Moberly,” Missouri Encyclopedia. (to be published in December 2025)
Manuscripts in Revision or Under Review
Nichols, Joseph R., “‘To Defend and Strengthen Their Heritage’: White Flight from Public Schools and the Rise of Segregation Academies in the 1960s South.” History of Education Quarterly. (revise and resubmit; in revision)
Shelton, Amy, and Joseph R. Nichols, “School District Boundaries and the Preservation of Segregation in Suburban St. Louis,” Missouri Historical Review. (under review)
Book In Progress
Nichols, Joseph R. This Is Maddox Country: Georgia Governor Lester G. Maddox and the White Backlash in American Politics. Under contract with the University of South Carolina Press. (due to the publisher January 15, 2025)
Manuscripts in Progress
Nichols, Joseph R., and Jennifer Butler, “Brooks. Moberly, MO and the failure of civil rights jurisprudence post-Brown.” (targeted submission to the American Journal of Legal History)