• Austria, 1867-1955. Oxford History of Modern Europe Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

• Karl Lueger (1844–1910). Christlichsoziale Politik als Beruf. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2009.

• Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, 1897–1918. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

• Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna: Origins of the Christian Social Movement, 1848–1897. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

• Coeditor (with Jan E. Goldstein). Nineteenth-Century Europe: Liberalism and Its Critics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

• Coeditor (with Jan E. Goldstein). Twentieth-Century Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

• "Die Gründung der Republik (1918)." In 100 Jahre Republik: Meilensteine und Wendepunkte 1918–1920. Edited by Andreas Huber. Vienna, 2020.

• "From an Absolutist to a Constitutional State: The Political System." In Franz Joseph 1830–1916. Edited by Karl Vocelka and Martin Mutschlechner, 34–37. Vienna: Brandstätter, 2016.

• "Badeni and the Revolution of 1897." In Bananen, Cola, Zeitgeschichte: Oliver Rathkolb und das lange 20. Jahrhundert. Edited by Lucile Dreidemy et al. 2 vols. Vienna: Böhlau, 2015. Vol. 1, 69–84.

• "Power, Partisanship, and the Grid of Democratic Politics: 1907 as the Pivot Point of Modern Austrian History." Austrian History Yearbook 44 (2013): 148–74.

• "Richard Schmitz and the Tradition of Imperial Catholic Politics in Austria 1907–1934." Demokratie und Geschichte. Jahrbuch des Karl von Vogelsang-Institutes 13/14 (2009/2010): 95–134.

• "The 'Collectivism of Democracy': Mass Politics in Vienna and Chicago, 1890–1918." Jahrbuch des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Wien 62/63 (2006/2007): 9–49.

• "Tradition und Wandel—Die Christlich Soziale Partei am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkrieges." Demokratie und Geschichte. Jahrbuch des Karl von Vogelsang-Institutes 9/10 (2005/2006): 73–99.

• "Political Catholicism in Austria, 1880-1960." Contemporary Austrian Studies 13 (2004): 6–36.

• "Silent War and Bitter Peace: The Austrian Revolution of 1918." Austrian History Yearbook 34 (2003): 1–56.

• "Wiener Konservatismus vom Reich zur Republik: Ignaz Seipel und die österreichische Politik." In Konservative Profile: Ideen und Praxis in der Politik zwischen FM Radetzky, Karl Kraus und Alois Mock. Edited by Ulrich E. Zellenberg, 341–361. Graz: Ares, 2003.

• "Catholics, Christians, and the Challenges of Democracy: The Heritage of the Nineteenth Century." In Christdemokratie in Europa im 20. Jahrhundert. Edited by Michael Gehler, Wolfram Kaiser, and Helmut Wohnout, 23–59. Vienna: Böhlau, 2001.

• "Religion and Political Development in Central Europe around 1900: A View from Vienna." Austrian History 
Yearbook 25 (1994): 13–57.

• "Christian Socialism under the Empire. Some Reflections." In Geschichte Zwischen Freiheit und Ordnung, 57–74. Graz: Styria, 1991.

• "Some Reflections on the Problem of Austria, Germany, and Mitteleuropa." Central European History 22 (1989): 
301–15.

• "Austrian Catholics and the World: Facing Political Turmoil in the Early Twentieth Century." In The Mirror of History, 315–352. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1988.

• Austria in the 1980s: Heritage of the Past, Contours of the Future. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1987.

• "The End of an Old Regime: Visions of Political Reform in Late Imperial Austria." Journal of Modern History 58 (1986): 159–93.

• "Karl Lueger and the Viennese Jews." Yearbook: The Leo Baeck Institute 26 (1981): 125–44.

• "Veränderungen im politischen Leben Wiens: Die Grossstadt Wien, der Radikalismus der Beamten und die Wahlen von 1891." Jahrbuchdes Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Wien 36/37 (1980/1981): 95–172/117–76.

• "Freud, Marriage and Late Viennese Liberalism: A Commentary from 1905." Journal of Modern History 50 (1978): 72–102.

• "A. J. P. Taylor and the Art of Modern History." Journal of Modern History 49 (1977): 40–72.

• The University of Chicago: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 

The following papers are published in the College's Occasional Papers on Higher Education Series. 

• Volume XXVI. Insider Visions of the University: Thorstein Veblen, William Benton and John Benton on the Identity of the University of Chicago – October 26, 2021

• Volume XXV. Charles H. Judd, an Empire of Testing, and the 'Science of Education' – October 29, 2019

• Volume XXIV. ‘The Universities and the Promise of American Life – October 24, 2017 

• Volume XXIII. ‘Higher Education in America and Europe Around 1900’: Some Perspectives on Our Shared History and Its Relevance For Our Time – October 18, 2016

• Volume XXII. ‘A Hell of a Job Getting it Squared Around’: Three Presidents in Times of Fundamental Change: Ernest D. Burton, Lawrence A. Kimpton, and Edward H. Levi – October 30, 2012

• Volume XXI. ‘Teaching at a University of a Certain Sort’: Education at the University of Chicago Over the Past Century – October 18, 2011

• Volume XX. ‘Not as a Thing for the Moment, but for All Time’: The University of Chicago and Its Histories – October 19, 2010

• Volume XIX. ‘A Noble and Symmetrical Conception of Life’: The Arts at Chicago on the Edge of a New Century – October 27, 2009

• Volume XVIII. ‘The Kind of University That We Desire to Become’: Student Housing and the Educational Mission of the University of Chicago – October 28, 2008

• Volume XVII. ‘We are All Islanders to Begin With’: The University of Chicago and the World in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries – October 30, 2007

• Volume XVI. A Twentieth-century Cosmos: The New Plan and the Origins of General Education at Chicago – October 31, 2006

• Volume XV. ‘Broad and Christian in the Fullest Sense’: William Rainey Harper and the University of Chicago – October 25, 2005

• Volume XIII. The ‘Persistence to Keep Everlastingly at It’: Fund-raising and Philanthropy at Chicago in the Twentieth Century – October 26, 2004

• Volume XII. Judson’s War and Hutchins’s Peace: The University of Chicago and War in the Twentieth Century – October 28, 2003

• Volume X. Academic Freedom and the Modern University: The Experience of the University of Chicago – May 20, 2016

• Volume VIII. The Organization of the College and the Divisions in the 1920s and 1930s – October 30, 2001

• Volume VI. Building for a Long Future: The Role of the Trustees in the Early University – October 17, 2000

• Volume IV. The University of Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s – October 19, 1999

• Volume III. Continuity & Change: The College as a Sponsor of Research and Teaching – October 20, 1998

• Volume II. Continuity & Change: The College as an Advocate of Curricular Innovation and Debate – October 21, 1997

• Volume I. Continuity & Change: The College as a Member of the Wider University – October 22, 1996

• "Drafting Salvation." University of Chicago Magazine (December 1995): 18–21.

• Appointed to Sixth Term as Dean of the College

• Completes a scholarly history of the University of Chicago.

• Awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Vienna on the occasion of the university's 650th anniversary, at the Dies Honorum ceremony in Vienna on May 13, 2015.