"The Political and Economic Reverberations of the Cuban Revolution in Mexico, 1959-1964," History Compass 6.4 (July 2008):  1140-1163.

Co-author with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt.  "Introduction:  Translating Fear."  In Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s Memoir  by Alberto Ulloa Bornemann.  Ed. and Trans. Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt.   Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007, 1-17.  http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1821_reg.html .  For a short paper in Spanish based upon this book given at the XXVI Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15, 2006, click here.

"Foreword."  In Lucia.  Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman by Robert Gay.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2005, ix-xix. 

"Introduction." In My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary.  Reflections of a Former Guerrillera by María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo.  Trans.  Lorena Terando.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2005, ix-xxx.

"Missing Persons. Post-1940 Mexican International Migration as Domestic History." In CEISAL, Cruzando Fronteras en América Latina. Tercer Congreso Europeo de Latinoamericanistas. Amsterdam: CEDLA and Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, 2002. CD-ROM.

"Making It Real Compared to What?   Reconceptualizing Mexican History Since 1940."  In Fragments of a Golden Age.  The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940.  Ed.  Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov.  Durham:  Duke University Press, 2001, 23-68.

"Mexicans, Migrants, and Indigenous Peoples: The Work of Manuel Gamio in the United States, 1925-1927."  In Strange Pilgrimages:  Travel, Exile, and Foreign Residency in the Creation of Latin American Identity, 1800-1990s.  Ed. Ingrid E. Fey and Karine Racine. Wilmington:  Scholarly Resources, 2000, 163-178.

"José Yves Limantour," "Weetman Pearson," "Justo Sierra," and "Transport and Communications: National Period and Porfiriato."  In Encyclopedia of Mexico:  History, Society, and Culture. Ed. Michael Werner. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998, I, 746-749; II, 1067-1069, 1343-1344, and 1447-1453.

"Globalization, Neoliberal Ideology, and National Identity: The Historical Uncertainties of NAFTA." Caribbean Studies 29:1 (Jan-June 1996):   67-105.

"The Internationalization of the Economic Crisis in Mexico and Central America." In Globalization, Urbanization, and the State:  Selected Studies on Contemporary Latin America.  Ed. Satya Pattnayak.  Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996, 43-64.

"The Continuing Significance of El Salvador." Introduction to El Salvador in the Eighties:  Counterinsurgency and Revolution by Mario Lungo.  Ed. Arthur Schmidt.   Trans. Amelia F. Shogan. Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1996, 1-39.

Co-author with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. "The Shaking of a Nation." Foreword to Nothing, Nobody. Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake by Elena Poniatowska.  Trans. Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1995, ix-xxix.

The Economic and Social Effect of Railroads in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico, 1867-1911. New York:  Garland, 1987.

“Defrosting Contemporary Latin American History,” A Contracorriente 6.1 (Fall 2008):  347-361.
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/fall_08/schmidt_rev.pdf

John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor, eds., Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800, electronic review essay for H-LatAm (September 2001)
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=79521019146518

Thomas Klak, ed., Globalization and Neoliberalism: The Caribbean Context, electronic review essay for H-LatAm (June 2000). http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3009960933855

Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, electronic review for H-LatAm, H-Net (April 1999). http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20044925744479

John Ward, Latin America: Development and Conflict since 1945, electronic review for H-LatAm, H-Net (July 1998). http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19973900360874

William O. Walker III, ed., Drugs in the Western Hemisphere:  An Odyessey of Cultures in Conflict (July 1996).  http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12681851406091