Cohen, Ronald and Robert Lichtman. Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Workings ofthe Informer System in the McCarthy Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Ed. Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1995. N.Y.: Routledge, 2003.

Cohen, Ronald and David Bonner, Golden. Threads: An Illustrated History of Folk Music in the United States, 1900- 1970. N.Y.: The Folk Music Museum in Greenwich Village, forthcoming 2003.

Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

Cohen, Ronald and Stephen McShane, eds., Moonlight in Duneland: The Illustrated Story of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad. Bloomington: Indiana University.Press, 1998.

Ed., Red Dust and Broadsides: A Joint Autobiography by Agnes "Sis"Cunningham and Gordon Friesen. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Ed., "Wasn't That a Time!": Firsthand Accounts of the Folk Revival. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Children of the Mill: Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, l906-l960. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Press, 1990.
Reprinted in paperback, N.Y.: Routledge, 2002, with a new introduction by William Reese.

Cohen, Ronald and James B. Lane.  Gary: A Pictorial History.  Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Co., l983).

Cohen, Ronald and Raymond Mohl.  The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling.  Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, l979.

Co-produced with Jeff Place.  The Best of Broadside: 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground From the Pages of Broadside Magazine.  (5 CD box with illustrated book) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2000).
(Two Grammy nominations, April 2001--historical and liner notes.  Two Indie awards from the Association For Independent Music, May 2001--liner notes and packaging.)

Co-produced with Dave Samuelson.  Goodnight, Irene: The Weavers, 1949-1953 (4 CD box with DVD and illustrated book). Bear Family Records, 2000.

Co-produced with Dave Samuelson.  Songs For Political Action: Folk Music,Topical Songs, and the American Left, 1926-1954.  (10 CD boxed set with large book). Bear Family Records, 1996 . (The 1997 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.)

Cohen, Ronald and Robert Lichtman. "Harvey Matusow, the FBI, and the Justice Department: Becoming a Government Informer-Witness in the McCarthy Era." American Communist History 1: 1, (Summer 2002.).

 "The Delinquents: Youth Culture and Censorship in Recent American History." History of Education Quarterly  37: 3 (Fall 1997), 251-270. To be reprinted in Roy Lowe, History of Education: Major Themes . London: Routledge.

"Singing Subversion: Folk Music and the Counterculture in the 1950s." Eds., Cornelis van Minnen, Jaap van der Bent, Mel van Elteren. Beat Culture: The 1950s and Beyond. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999.  117-127.

"Music Goes To War: California, 1940-1945." Ed.  Roger Lotchin.  The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999. 47-67.

"Woody The Red?," Eds. Robert Santelli and Emily Davidson. Hard Travelin':The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press,1999. 138-152.

"Schooling Uncle Sam's Children: Education in the U.S.A., l94l-l945" Ed. Roy. Education and the Second World War: Studies in Schooling and Social Change. London: Falmer Press, 1992. 46-58.