[1] Upon retirement from his position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, he was named the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor Emeritus of American History.
[2] Dunn was the author of many scholarly articles and books, including Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 in 1972.
[9] The book outlines the development of slave society and the Planter class by examining "sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics, and the appalling mortality rates for both blacks and whites that made these colonies the richest, but in human terms the least successful, in English America.
"[10] His book, A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Virginia and Jamaica, was published by Harvard University Press in 2014.
The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1689 (W. W. Norton, 1970), Expanded 2d ed., 1559-1715 (Norton, 1979) Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (University of North Carolina Press, 1972) The Papers of William Penn edited with Mary Maples Dunn, Richard Ryerson, Scott Wilds, Jean Soderlund, Marianne Wokeck, Craig Horle, Joy Wiltenburg, and Alison Hirsh (University of Pennsylvania Press) Volume One, 1644-1679 (1981) Volume Two, 1680-1684 (1982) Volume Three, 1685-1700(1986) Volume Four, 1701-1718(1987) William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania, 1680-1684: A Documentary History, General Editor, with Mary Maples Dunn, ed.