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James Henretta is the author of various works on Early American History, including The Evolution of American Society,1700-1815;(1973); Evolution and Revolution, 1600-1820 (1987); and The Origins of American Capitalism(1991). He is also the co-author of two texts: America's History (5th ed., 2003) America: A Concise History (2nd ed, 2001).

He is now working on a book manuscript entitled "The Liberal State in America: New York, 1820-1975." Articles related to that project include:

"The Rise and Decline of Democratic Republicanism . . .1800-1915," in A Usable Past, ed. by Paul Finkelman and Stephen Gottlieb; "The Birth of American Liberalism: New York, 1820-1860," in Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850, ed. by Jürgen Heideking and James Henretta; and "Isaac Sherman and Trials of Gilded Age Liberalism," American Nineteenth Century History, 4 (2003).

James Henretta has held fellowships from the Charles Warren Center at Harvard, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia and as the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. In 2002-3 he was the John Hope Franklin Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center.