Articles, Book Chapters and Essays
- “Teaching Black Educational Philanthropy Through Photography, 1863-1920s,”The Public Historian 46, no. 2 (May 2024): 62-78.
- “Remaking Old Blue College: Emerson Normal and Addressing the Need for Black Schoolteachers,” in Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom During the Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. Karen Cook Bell, 160-176. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Contributor to Adam Domby and Karen Cox, "Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies" a JCWE roundtable, Journal of Civil War Era 13, no. 3 (September 2023): 342-386.
- “The Slave Cemetery and Apology Marker at the University of Alabama,” in Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves, ed. Brian Jordan and Jonathan White, 248-256. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023.
- Co-authored and edited with Adam Domby, “Studying Slavery on Campus: Research, Reconciliation, and Public Engagement,” a JCWE roundtable, Journal of Civil War Era 13, no. 2 (June 2023): 155-177.
- Co-authored with Nishani Frazier and Christy Hyman, "Black is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities,” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, ed. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein, 140-165. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
- “The Hallowed Grounds Tour: Revising and Reimagining Landscapes of Race and Slavery at the University of Alabama,” in Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas, eds. Thaisa Way and Eric Avila, , 297-323. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Press, Trustees for Harvard University, 2023.
- “Implementing Public Schools: Competing Visions and Crises in Postemancipation Mobile, Alabama,” in Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meaning 150 Years Later, ed. Adam Domby and Simon Lewis (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), 39-56.
- “2. Shifting Landscapes and the Monument Removal Craze, 2015-2020,” in Remembering Wrongs in Public Space: Forum in Reaction to the Toppling of Edward Colston in Bristol, June 2020, Patterns of Prejudice 54, no. 5 (August 2021): 485-491.
- “Emancipation and Origins of Reconstruction: A Sesquicentennial Reassessment,” review essay, Ohio Valley History 21 (Spring 2021): 89-95.
- “Art and Disrupting the Confederate Monumental Landscape.” In American Geography: Photographs of Land Use From 1840 to the Present, edited by Sandra Phillips and Sally Martin Katz, 255-257. Santa Fe: Radius Books/SFMOMA, 2021.
- Julian Chambliss and Hilary Green, “Hilary Green and Transformative Digital History,” Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanities, ed. Julian Chambliss. East Lansing: Michigan State University OER Office, 2021, https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/reframingdh/.
- "Reassessing Black Urban Politics and Activism, 1865-1930s," review essay, Journal of Urban History (Online First December 27, 2020): 1-6,
- "The Burden of the University of Alabama's Hallowed Grounds," The Public Historian 42, no. 4 (November 2020): 28-40.
- “Women in the Civil War Era,” In Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd edition, ed. Nancy Hewitt and Anne Valk (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 157-173.
- “Enshrining Proud Shoes in Brick and Mortar: An Alumna Contemplates Pauli Murray Hall," Southern Cultures 26 no. 3 (Fall 2020): 172-175..
- "'What, then is the Church?': A Path Forward for Columbia Seminary and Its Slave Past," Repair roundtable forum, @This Point: Theological Investigations in Church and Culture 14, no 1 (Spring 2020).
- “Persistence of Memory: African Americans and Transitional Justice Efforts in Franklin County, Pennsylvania,” in Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives, ed. Paul Quigley and Jim Hawdon (New York: Routledge, 2019), 131-149 (UK release in July 2018).
- “Revisiting African Americans’ Struggle for Public Schools,” Journal of Urban History 44 (November 2018): 1287-1293 (Published online on August 21, 2018).
- “Destination Navy Hill: Tourism and African American Education in Post-Emancipation Richmond, Virginia,” Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 26 (September 2018): 67-96.
- "Typhoid Fever: Failure in the Midst of Victory in the Spanish-American War, 1898,” in Epidemics and War: The Impact of Disease on Major Conflicts in History, ed. Rebecca Seaman. (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2018), 97-109.
- “At Freedom’s Margins: Race, Disability, Violence and the Brewer Orphan Asylum in Southeastern North Carolina, 1865-1872,” Journal of North Carolina Association of Historians 24 (October 2016): 1-22.
- Spragley, Kelvin, Hilary Green, Rebecca Seaman, "Engaging Students in the History Classroom: More Than Just Documentary Research," Journal of North Carolina Association of Historians 23 (November 2015): 19-28.
- “African Americans’ Struggle for Education, Citizenship and Freedom, in Mobile, Alabama, 1865-1868,” in Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era, ed. Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 215-236.
- Reed, Charles, Rebecca Seaman, Hilary Green, and Ted Mitchell, “Technological Trends in History Education,” Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians 20 (July 2012): 29-48.