| Family matters: Secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption EW Carp Harvard University Press, 1998 | 427 | 1998 |
| To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783 EW Carp UNC Press Books, 1990 | 191 | 1990 |
| Adoption in America: historical perspectives EW Carp University of Michigan Press, 2009 | 152 | 2009 |
| With us always: A history of private charity and public welfare TM Adams, A Brundage, EW Carp, EW Hawley, E McKeown, K Norberg, ... Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998 | 57 | 1998 |
| Adoption politics: bastard nation and ballot initiative 58 EW Carp University Press of Kansas, 2004 | 52 | 2004 |
| Adoption, blood kinship, stigma, and the adoption reform movement: A historical perspective EW Carp Law & Society Review 36 (2), 433-459, 2002 | 46 | 2002 |
| Introduction: A historical overview of American adoption EW Carp Adoption in America: Historical perspectives, 1-26, 2002 | 39 | 2002 |
| When in doubt, count: World War II as a watershed in the history of adoption AY Leon‐Guerrero, EW Carp ADOPTION IN AMERICA: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES, Wayne Carp, ed, 181-217, 2002 | 27 | 2002 |
| Early American military history: a review of recent work EW Carp The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 94 (3), 259-284, 1986 | 27 | 1986 |
| Adoption and disclosure of family information: A historical perspective WE Carp A History of Child Welfare, 210-233, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| The sealed adoption records controversy in historical perspective: the case of the Children's Home Society of Washington, 1895-1988 EW Carp J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 19, 27, 1992 | 21 | 1992 |
| How tight was the seal? A reappraisal of adoption records in the United States, England and New Zealand, 1851–1955 EW Carp International advances in adoption research for practice, 18-39, 2009 | 17 | 2009 |
| Does opening adoption records have an adverse social impact? Some lessons from the US, Great Britain, and Australia, 1953–2007 EW Carp Adoption Quarterly 10 (3-4), 29-52, 2007 | 17 | 2007 |
| Professional Social Workers, Adoption, and the Problem of Illegitimacy, 1915–1945 EW Carp Journal of Policy History 6 (3), 161-184, 1994 | 16 | 1994 |
| The Problem of National Defense in the Early American Republic EW Carp The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits, 14-50, 1987 | 16 | 1987 |
| The Origins of the Nationalist Movement of 1780–1783: Congressional Administration and the Continental Army EW Carp Revolutions in the Western World 1775–1825, 107-136, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Jean Paton and the struggle to reform American adoption EW Carp University of Michigan Press, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| Orphanages vs. Adoption: The Triumph of Bio logical Kinship, 1800-1933 EW Carp With us always: A history of private charity and public welfare, 123-44, 1998 | 13 | 1998 |
| Two cheers for orphanages EW Carp Reviews in American History 24 (2), 277-284, 1996 | 9 | 1996 |
| Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era. EW Carp The Journal of Southern History 51 (2), 275-276, 1985 | 9 | 1985 |
