Fugitive Movements: : Commemorating the Denmark Vesey Affair and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World. Edited by Spady, James O'Neil. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2022.
Spady, James. "Belonging and Alienation: Gullah Jack and Some Maroon Dimensions of the 'Denmark Vesey Conspiracy'." Maroons and the marooned: runaways and castaways in the Americas. Edited by Richard Bodek and Joseph Kelly. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Spady, James O. Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America: Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700–ca. 1820. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Spady, James. “Hamilton, Paul (1762-1816).” The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Governors of South Carolina, 38-39. Edited by Walter Edgar. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Spady, James. “Pickens, Andrew, Jr. (1779-1838).” The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Governors of South Carolina, 104-105. Edited by Walter Edgar. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Spady, James O’Neil. “Bubbles and Beggars and the Bodies of Laborers: The Georgia Trusteeship, White Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Colonialism.” Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750,213-268. Edited by L.H. Roper and B. van Ruymbeke. Boston: Brill, 2007.
Spady, James O’Neil. “Colonialism and the Discursive Antecedents of Penn's Treaty with the Indians.” Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania, 18-40. Edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.
Spady, James O'Neil et al. "Chicanx Histories of the Present: a Praxis against Gang Injunctions in Orange County, California, 2008–2016." Radical Americas (September 2021).
Spady, James O’Neil. “Power and Confession: On the Credibility of the Earliest Reports of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy.” The William and Mary Quarterly 68, no. 2 (2011): 287–304.
Spady, James O’Neil. “Reconsidering Theory: Power, the Learning Body, and Cultural Change during Early American Colonization.” Journal of Early American History 1, no. 3 (November 2011): 191-214.
Spady, James O’Neil. “To Vie with One against Another: Race and Demand for Nonelite White Education in an Eighteenth-Century Colonial Society.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 3 (August 2011): 649–76.
Spady, James O’Neil. “Reconsidering Empire: Current Interpretations of Native American Agency during Colonization.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 10, no. 2 (August 2009).
Bickham Mendez, Jennifer, and James O’Neil Spady. “Organizing across Difference and across Campus: Cross-Class Coalition and Worker Mobilization in a Living Wage Campaign.” Labor Studies Journal 32, no. 4 (December 2007): 357–81.