price's teaching and research focused on african-american history and culture; united states urban and social history; new jersey history; public history; and american race relations. his dissertation, completed in 1975, was a social history of newark's black community in the thirty years after world war i. other writings include: freedom not far distant: a documentary history of afro-americans in new jersey (1980); many voices, many opportunities: cultural pluralism and american arts policy (1994); and the three volume slave culture: a documentary collection of the slave narratives from the federal writers' project.