He served with Jack S. Blocker and Ian R. Tyrrell as an editor of Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2003).
Fahey was the first recipient of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society's senior scholar achievement award for lifetime service.
He was a member of the editorial board, "Drugs and Alcohol: Contested Histories," a series published by Northern Illinois University Press.
Fahey also edited a posthumous collection of essays written by his friend Frank J. Merli, The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War (Indiana University Press, 2004).
It is "Samuel Rawson Gardiner, a Victorian Historian whose Father Was an Angel," International Social Science Review 99 issue 3 (Sept. 2023).
Fahey's wife Dr. Mary J. Fuller, emerita professor of English at Miami University, served as director of the Ohio Writing Project from 1980 until 2012.