Education’s Abiding Moral Dilemma: merit and worth in the cross-Atlantic democracies, 1800-2006. Sheldon Rothblatt. Oxford: Symposium Books. 380 pages. (2006)

History at Berkeley: A Dialog in Three Parts. Gene A. Brucker, Henry F. May, and David A. Hollinger. Carroll Brentano and Sheldon Rothblatt, eds. Institute of Governmental Studies, 50 pages. (1998)

The Modern University and Its Discontents: The Fate of Newman's Legacies in Britain and America. Sheldon Rothblatt. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 475 pages. (1997)

A Western Acropolis of Learning: The University of California in 1897. Roy Lowe. Carroll Brentano and Sheldon Rothblatt, eds. Institute of Governmental Studies, 47 pages. (1996)

The University in the 1870s. Carroll Brentano and Sheldon Rothblatt, eds. Institute of Governmental Studies, 90 pages. (1996)

Equally in View: The University of California, Its Women, and the Schools. Geraldine Clifford. Carroll Brentano and Sheldon Rothblatt, eds. Institute of Governmental Studies, 103 pages. (1995)

The Origins of the Chancellorship: The Buried Report of 1948. Eugene Lee. Carroll Brentano and Sheldon Rothblatt, eds. Institute of Governmental Studies, 77 pages. (1995)

California's Practical Period: A Cultural Context of the Emerging University, 1850s-1870s. Gunther Barth. Carroll Brentano and Sheldon Rothblatt, eds. Institute of Governmental Studies, 50 pages. (1994)

The European and American University Since 1800: Historical and Sociological Essays. Sheldon Rothblatt and Bjorn Wittrock, eds. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 382 pages. (1993)

Three Faces of Berkeley: Competing Ideologies in the Wheeler Era, 1899-1919. Henry F. May. Carroll Brentano and Sheldon Rothblatt, eds. Institute of Governmental Studies, 50 pages. (1993)

"The Limbs of Osiris: Liberal Education in the English-speaking World." Sheldon Rothblatt. in The European and American University Since 1800: Historical and Sociological Essays. Sheldon Rothblatt and Bjorn Wittrock, eds. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. (1993)

"Government Policies and Higher Education: A Comparison of Britain and the United States, 1630-1860." Sheldon Rothblatt and Martin Trow. in Social Research and Social Reform. C. Crouch and A. Heath, eds. Oxford University Press. (1992)

The OECD, the Master Plan and the California Dream: A Berkeley Conversation. Sheldon Rothblatt, ed. Berkeley: Center For Studies in Higher Education. (1992)

"'A Long Apocrypha of Inquiries': The Humanities and Humanity." Sheldon Rothblatt. Mosaic. (1990)

"The Idea of the Idea of a University and Its Antithesis." Sheldon Rothblatt. In Conversazione. Bundoora: La Trobe University. (1989)

"London: A Metropolitan University?" Sheldon Rothblatt. The City and the University. T. Bender, ed. (1988)

"Historical and Comparative Remarks on the Federal Principle in Higher Education." Sheldon Rothblatt. History of Education. 16. (1987)

"George Eliot as a Type of European Intellectual." Sheldon Rothblatt. History of European Ideas. 7. (1986)

"Failure in Early 19th-Century Oxford and Cambridge." Sheldon Rothblatt. History of Education. 11. (1982)

The Revolution of the Dons, Cambridge and Society in Victorian England. Sheldon Rothblatt. London: Faber and Faber, 1968. (reissued with new introduction by Cambridge University Press in 1981).

Tradition and change in English liberal education: an essay in history and culture. Sheldon Rothblatt. London: Faber and Faber. (1976)

"The Student Sub-Culture and the Examination System in Early 19th-Century Oxbridge." Sheldon Rothblatt. In The University in Society. L. Stone, ed. (1974)