Smallwood is the author of several books, articles and book reviews, including the following: The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1997, which is used as a major text for African-American History all over the world and is utilized by the world’s leading authorities on African-American History such as Darlene Clark-Hine in her work, The African-American Odyssey, New York, Prentice Hall Press, 2000, and John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom, New York, McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2009. This leading text book for African-American History is supported by his Atlas of African-American History and Politics From the Slave Trade to Modern Times. Digital versions of maps from the atlas can be accessed on line using a special CD and web based site provided by McGraw-Hill.
He is also the author of Blacks at Bradley: 1897 to 2000. Chicago: Arcadia Press, 2001. His work Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina History, Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2002, which is based on his dissertation and current research, has also been cited by scholars such as Lisa Bier, American Indian and African American People Communities and Interactions, New York, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004. Mrs. Bier cites his work on Africans, Native Americans, and Whites, and Alriela J. Gross cites his work in Of Portuguese Origin": Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the "Little Races" in Nineteenth-Century America" Law and History Review Fall 2007, vol. 25, no. 3.
His other works include A History of Native American and African Relations From 1502 to 1900," Negro History Bulletin, December 2000 and a 1998 book review, The Afro-American in New York City, 1827-1860. George E. Walker. (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Pp. ix, 227.) New York History LXXIX no. 2 (April 1998): 175.
He has also organized or contributed to several sets of archived papers including: "The Bart F. Smallwood Papers," (over 5,000 items) housed by the Manuscripts Department, Southern Historical Collection, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, copyright 1997. (for inventory of collection online see http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Smallwood,Bart_F.html), "The Wylie Family Papers" housed in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill copies of material on disk are also housed in Bradley University's Special Collections. Digitized and organized over 700 photographs of African Americans from annuals, yearbooks, newspaper, private collections of local residents and photographic archives of Bradley University's Special Collections and the Peoria, Illinois Public Library.