Books

• Just Food: How Locavores are Endangering the Future of Food and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (Little, Brown, 2009) ISBN 978-0-316-03374-9
• American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT (Columbia, 2008) (held in 563 worldCat libraries
• Review: "American Pests": Our wrongheaded approach to insect control: Bugged to death: James E. McWilliams takes on insects, agriculture and pesticides in "American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT." By Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times, August 8, 2008 [1]
• Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts (University of Virginia, 2007)
• A Revolution in Eating: how the quest for food shaped America (Columbia, 2005) (held in 868 worldCat libraries

Peer-reviewed articles

• “The horizon opened up very greatly.: Leland O. Howard and the Transition to Chemical Insecticides in the United States, 1894-1927” Agricultural History (Fall 2008).
• “Cuisine and National Identity in the Early Republic,” Historically Speaking (May/June 2006), 5-8.
• ”African Americans, Native Americans, and the Origins of American Food,” The Texas Journal of History and Genealogy. Volume 4 (2005), p.12-16.
• " 'how unripe we are': An Intellectual Construction of American Food,” Food, Society, and Culture (Fall 2005), p. 143-160.
• “‘To Forward Well-Flavored Productions’: The Kitchen Garden in Early New England.” The New England Quarterly (March 2004), p. 25-50.
• “Integrating Primary and Secondary Sources,” Teaching History (Spring 2004), p. 3-14.
• “The Transition from Capitalism and the Consolidation of Authority in the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1607-1760: An Interpretive Model,” Maryland Historical Magazine

• “New England’s First Depression: An Export-Led Interpretation,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Summer 2002), p.1-20 .
• “Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay,” The New England Quarterly (September 2001), p. 355-384. (Winner of the

• “Brewing Beer in Massachusetts Bay, 1640-1690.” The New England Quarterly (December 1998), p. 353-384.

Popular articles

• Free-Range Trichinosis by James E Williams, April 9, 2009 NY Times [2]
• Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem" By James E McWilliams August 6, 2007 NY Times, November 17, 2008 [3]
• Letters in comment, [4] (107 letters)
• Food That Travels Well By James E McWilliams August 6, 2007 NY Times [5]
• Letters in comment [6]