- When the New Wine Ferments (1941)
- One City and Many Men:The Detroit Story (1955)
- The Rising Generation:A Study in American Education (1959)
- The Birth of Detroit (1978)
- Triumph of the West:Detroit's Winning of the Old Northwest (1984)
- America's First Western Frontier (1990)
- Detroit:Then and Now (1992)
- The Last Hurrah:Detroit's Last Bid for Greatness (1996)
Noveller
- "Huset på bakken" (1939)
- "Mannen som kom tilbake" (1940)
- "Jenta i den røde kjolen" (1941)
- "Den gamle mannens historie" (1942)
- "Det siste juletreet" (1943)