In 1995 The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Reagon its Charles Frankel Prize for contributions to the public's knowledge of the Humanities.
Conceptualized the National Public Radio (NPR) and Smithsonian Peabody Award winning radio series entitled "Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions".
(book) Wade in the Water (NPR Press, 1994)
(book) If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition (Abraham Lincoln Lecture Series-University of Nebraska Press, 2001)
(book) We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey in the Rock-Still on the Journey (Doubleday & Co., 1993)
(book) We'll Understand It Better by and by: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992)
(book) Black American Culture and Scholarship: Contemporary Issues (Smithsonian Institute, 1985)