Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (1995)[6]
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998)[7][8][9][10]
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)[11][12]
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2005)[13][14]
What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (with Gaspar González, 2006)[15][16][17]
The Historian’s Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present (2018)[18]
Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis, Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era (2023)[18]
Film
Jacobsen served as the creator, writing, and lead researcher on the documentary film, A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Desegregation (Hammer & Nail Productions, 2019).[19] The film won a Golden Telly Award for General Television Documentary.[20]
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^Carruthers, Susan (September 2007), "What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez", Journal of American History, 94 (2): 643,
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^Faucette, Brian (November 2009), "What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America", Journal of Popular Film and Television, 37 (3): 147,
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