Cooper was the Chief Historian for the 2002 PBS documentary Woodrow Wilson, which was produced by KCET.[12] He also served as a program advisor for the award-winning Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts, which aired nationally on PBS in 2014.[13]
editor. Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: progressivism, internationalism, war, and peace (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008).
Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 (WW Norton & Company, 1990).
The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard University Press, 1983).
Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American, 1855-1918 (University of North Carolina Press, 1977).
The Vanity of Power: American Isolationism and the First World War, 1914-1917 (Greenwood Press, 1969)
Articles
"The Historical Presidency: Few and Mostly Far Between: Reflections on Intellectuals as Presidents." Presidential Studies Quarterly 47.4 (2017): 789–802.
"From Promoting to Ending Big Government." in The Progressives' Century (Yale University Press, 2016) pp.157–173.
with Gerstle, Gary. "Race and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Woodrow Wilson." in Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace (2008): 93–124.
"The great war and American memory." The Virginia Quarterly Review 79.1 (2003): 70–84.
"The shock of recognition: the impact of World War I on America." Virginia quarterly review 76.4 (2000): 567–584. online
"My Mission to Moscow: An American Historian in the Soviet Union." Wisconsin Magazine of History 72.1 (1988): 38–50. online
"Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Man." The Virginia Quarterly Review 58.1 (1982): 38–53. online
"'An Irony of Fate': Woodrow Wilson's Pre-World War I Diplomacy." Diplomatic History 3.4 (1979): 425–438.
"Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American." Virginia Quarterly Review 53.4 (1977): 660–676. online