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- 2022 – The Landa Conundrum
- 2022 – The Time Loop of Mexico’s Conquests
- 2021 – Fear Wonder and Absence
- 2020 – Legitimized Violence
- 2020 – The Wars of Invasion
- 2019 – Creating “Belize” – The Mapping and Naming History of a Liminal Locale
- 2018 – Presidential Address: The Trouble with America
- 2017 – Maya Ethnogenesis (with Wolfgang Gabbert)
- 2016 – Moses, Caesar, Hero, Anti-hero – The Posthumous Faces of Hernando Cortes
- 2015 – Americas in The Age of Indigenous Empires
- 2015 – The Irreplaceable Window
- 2014 – Crossing To Safety? – Frontier Flight in Eighteenth Century Belize and Yucatan
- 2014 – James Lockhart
- 2014 – Invasion – The Maya at War
- 2013 – Cook’s Passage: An English Spy in the Yucatan
- 2013 – Gaspar Antonio Chi
- 2012 – The New Conquest History
- 2012 – Neil Whitehead
- 2012 – Consideraciones Finales
- 2012 – Disciples of Nichness
- 2011 – Imperial Rivalries
- 2011 – The Gods Return (with Robert Schwaller)
- 2010 – Perspectivas indigenas
- 2010 – The Mysterious and The Invisible – Writing History In and Of Colonial Yucatan
- 2010 – Sources for the Ethnohistory and Afrohistory
- 2010 – Final Considerations
- 2007 – Mesoamerican Conquistadors
- 2006 – Origin and Myth
- 2005 – Mesoamerica
- 2005 – Conquistadores Negros
- 2004 – Maya Ethnogenesis
- 2003 – A History of the New Philogoy
- 2002 – A Re-evaluation of the Authenticity of Fray Diego deLanda’s Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan
- 2002 – The Renaissance World
- 2001 – Filologia y etnohistoria
- 2001 – La Falacia de la Libertad
- 2001 – The People of the Patio
- 2000 – The African Experience in Early Spanish America (Introduction) Restall and Landers
- 2000 – Otredad y ambiguedad
- 2000 – Black Conquistadors – Armed Africans in Early Spanish America
- 2000 – The Telling of Tales
- 1998 – The Ties that Bind – Social Cohesion and the Yucatec Maya family
- 1998 – Interculturation and Indigenous Testament
- 1997 – Heirs to the Hieroglyphs – Indigenous Writing in Colonial Mesoamerica
- 1995 – He Wished It In Vain. Subordination and resistance in Maya women in Post-Conquest Yucatan