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Selected Books, Pamphlets, and Dissertations
Abercrombie, James.
A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of Major Gen. Alexander Hamilton.
Philadelphia: H. Maxwell, 1804.
An Account of the Late Dreadful Hurricane, Which Happened on the 31st of August, 1772.
St. Christopher: Thomas Howe, 1772.
Adams, Abigail.
New Letters of Abigail Adams, 1788–1801.
Ed. Stewart Mitchell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
Adams, John.
Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams, and the Late Wm. Cunningham, Esq.
Boston: True and Greene, 1823.
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Old Family Letters: Series A. Letters from John Adams to Dr. Benjamin Rush.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1892.
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Statesman and Friend: Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784–1822.
Ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford. Boston: Little, Brown, 1927.
Adams, John Quincy.
The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794–1845.
Ed. Allan Nevins. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951.
Ames, Fisher.
A Sketch of the Character of Alexander Hamilton.
Boston: Repertory Office, 1804.
Ammon, Harry.
James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990 [1971].
Anderson, James R.
The Provosts of Glasgow from 1609 to 1832.
Glasgow: James Hedderwick and Sons, [n.d.]. Copy in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Scotland.
Andrews, Evangeline Walker, ed.
Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and
Aptheker, Herbert.
American Negro Slave Revolts.
New York: International Publishers, 1983.
Atherton, Gertrude.
Adventures of a Novelist.
New York: Liveright, 1932.
Bailyn, Bernard.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992 [1967].
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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Baxter, Katharine Schuyler.
A Godchild of Washington.
London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898.
Ben-Atar, Doron, and Barbara B. Oberg.
Federalists Reconsidered.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Bentham, Jeremy.
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham.
Vols. 7 and 8. Ed. J. R. Dinwiddy, Stephen Conway, et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
Bergh, Albert Ellery, ed.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Vol. 11. Washington, D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1907.
Berkin, Carol.
A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution.
New York: Harcourt, 2002.
Berrian, William.
Recollections of Departed Friends.
New York: Stanford and Sword, 1850.
Bethune, George W.
Memoirs of Mrs. Joanna Bethune.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1863.
Biddle, Charles.
Autobiography of Charles Biddle, Vice-President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia: E. Claxton, 1883.
Bobrick, Benson.
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker.
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787.
Boston: Back Bay Books, 1986 [1966].
Boyd, Julian P.
Number 7: Alexander Hamilton’s Secret Attempt to Control American Foreign Policy.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Brandt, Clare.
An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y: n.p., 1990 [1986].
Brodie, Fawn M.
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1974.
Brookhiser, Richard.
Alexander Hamilton, American.
New York: Free Press, 1999.
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America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735–1918.
New York: Free Press, 2002.
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Gentleman Revolutionary
:
Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.
New York: Free Press, 2003.
Brooks, Geraldine.
Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1900.
Burke, Edmund.
Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987 [1790].
Burr, Aaron.
Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr.
2 vols. Ed. Mary-Jo Kline et al. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Butzner, Jane, ed.
Constitutional Chaff—Rejected Suggestions of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.
Callahan, North.
Henry Knox: General Washington’s General.
New York: Rinehart, 1958.
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Royal Raiders: The Tories of the American Revolution.
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.
Callender, James Thomson.
The History of the United States for 1796.
Philadelphia: Snowden and McCorkle, 1797.
Callender, Tom (probably James Thomson Callender).
Letters to Alexander Hamilton, King of the Feds.
New York: Richard Reynolds, 1802.
Castle, Colin M.
John Glassford of Douglaston.
Glasgow: Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society, 1989.
Chastellux, marquis de.
Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782.
Vol. 1. New York: Arno Press, 1968.
Cheetham, James.
A Narrative of the Suppression by Col. Burr, of the History of the Administration of John Adams, Late President of the United States.
New York: Denniston and Cheetham, 1802.
Colimore, Edward.
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
’s Guide to Historic Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2001.
Cooke, Jacob E.
Alexander Hamilton: A Profile.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.
Cooper, Duff.
Talleyrand.
New York: Grove Press, 1997 [1932].
Cunningham, Anna K.
Schuyler Mansion: A Critical Catalogue of the Furnishings and Decorations.
Albany: New York State Education Department, 1955.
Cunningham, William.
A Letter to an Ex-President of the United States.
Leominster, Mass.: Salmon Wilder, 1812.
Custis, George Washington Parke.
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington.
Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1861.
Daiches, David.
Glasgow.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1977.
Dasent, Sir John Roche.
A West Indian Planter’s Family: Its Rise and Fall.
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1914.
Davis, Joseph Stancliffe.
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations.
New York: Russell and Russell, 1965.
Davis, Matthew L.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence.
2 vols. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970 [1836].
Day, Stacey B.
Edward Stevens: Gastric Physiologist, Physician, and American Statesman.
Cincinnati: Cultural and Educational Productions, 1969.
de Beaufort, Raphael, trans.
Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand.
Vol. 1. New York: AMS Press, 1973.
Devine, T. M.
The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and Their Trading Activities c. 1740–90.
Edinburgh: John Donald, 1975.
Domett, Henry W.
A History of the Bank of New York, 1784–1884.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1884.
Drinker, Elizabeth.
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker.
Vols. 2 and 3. Ed. Elaine Forman Crane et al. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.
Duncan, William Cary.
The Amazing Madame Jumel.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1935.
Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick.
The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 [1993].
Ellis, Joseph J.
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.
New York: Vintage Books, 1998 [1996]
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———. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
———. Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1994 [1993].
Emery, Noemie.
Alexander Hamilton.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982.
Ernst, Robert.
Rufus King: American Federalist.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
Extract from the Proceedings of the New-York State Society, of the Cincinnati, Convened on the 4th of July, 1786.
New York: n.p., 1786.
Ferling, John.
John Adams: A Life.
New York: Henry Holt, 1996 [1992].
Findley, William.
History of the Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania: In the Year M.DCC.XCIV.
Philadelphia: Samuel Harrison Smith, 1796.
Fleming, Thomas.
Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America.
New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Fleming, Thomas, introd. In
Rags to Riches: The Financing of America, 1776–1836.
New York: Museum of American Financial History, 1998.
Flexner, James Thomas.
Washington: The Indispensable Man.
Boston: Back Bay Books, 1974 [1969].
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The Young Hamilton: A Biography.
New York: Fordham University Press, 1997 [1978].
Foreman, Amanda.
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire.
New York: Random House, 1998.
Freeman, Joanne B.
Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Frémont, Jessie Benton.
Souvenirs of My Time.
Boston: D. Lothrop, 1887.
Furnas, J. C.
The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587–1914.
New York: G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1969.
Gerlach, Don R.
Proud Patriot: Philip Schuyler and the War of Independence, 1775–1783
. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1987.
Gibson, John.
The History of Glasgow.
Glasgow: Rob. Chapman and Alex. Duncan, 1777.
Gordon, John Steele.
The Business of America.
New York: Walker, 2001.
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Hamilton’s Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt.
New York: Walker, 1997.
Gottschalk, Louis, ed.
The Letters of Lafayette to Washington, 1777–1799.
New York: H. F. Hubbard, 1944.
Grafton, John.
The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History, 1775–1865.
Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2000.
Graydon, Alexander.
Memoirs of His Own Time.
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1846.
Hamilton, Alexander.
The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary.
5 vols. Ed. Julius Goebel, Jr., et al. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964–1981.
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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton.
27 vols. Ed. Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cooke. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961–1987.
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Writings.
Ed. Joanne B. Freeman. New York: Library of America, 2001.
Study in Character.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 [1999].
Kent, James.
Anniversary Discourse, Delivered before the New-York Historical Society.
New York: G. and C. Carvill, 1829.
Kent, William, ed.
Memoirs and Letters of James Kent.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1898.
Ketcham, Ralph.
James Madison: A Biography.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990 [1971].
King, Rufus.
The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King.
Vols. 1–6. Ed. Charles R. King. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894.
Knott, Stephen F.
Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Knox, Hugh.
Letter to the Rev. Mr. Jacob Green, of New Jersey.
New York: T. and J. Swords, 1809.
Lafayette, marquis de.
Lafayette in the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790.
Vols. 3–5. Ed. Stanley J. Idzerda et al. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980, 1981, 1983.
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry.
The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
2 vols. Ed. John C. Van Horne et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
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The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
3 vols. Ed. Edward C. Carter II et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Laurens, Henry.
The Papers of Henry Laurens.
Vols. 7, 8, and 11. Ed. George C. Rogers, Jr., and David R. Chesnutt. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1979.
Lawaetz, Erik J.
St. Croix: 500 Years, Pre-Columbus to 1900.
Herning, Denmark: Poul Kristensen, 1991.
Lee, Charles.
The Charles Lee Papers.
Vol. 3,
1778–1782. Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1873.
New York: printed for the Society, 1874.
Lind, Michael, ed.
Hamilton’s Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition.
New York: Free Press, 1997.
Livingston, William.
The Papers of William Livingston.
5 vols. Ed. Carl E. Prince et al. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1979–1988.
Lodge, Henry Cabot.
Alexander Hamilton.
American Statesmen Series. New York: Chelsea House, 1980.
Lomask, Milton.
Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805–1836.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.
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Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756–1805.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.
Lossing, Benson J.
Hours with the Living Men and Women of the Revolution.
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1889.
Hamilton, Allan McLane.
The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911.
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Recollections of an Alienist, Personal and Professional.
New York: George H. Doran, 1916.
Hamilton, George.
A History of the House of Hamilton.
Edinburgh: J. Skinner, 1933.
Hamilton, James A.
Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton.
New York: Charles Scribner, 1869.
Hamilton, John C.
Life of Alexander Hamilton.
7 vols. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879 [1841–1864].
Hamilton, John C., ed.
The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States.
Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1947.
Harcourt, Felice, ed. and trans.
Memoirs of Madame de la Tour du Pin (1770–1853).
London: Harvill Press, 1969 [1913].
Hibbert, Christopher.
George III: A Personal History.
New York: Basic Books, 1998.
Howell, T. B., ed.
A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Vol. 18,
1743–1753
. London: T. C. Hansard, 1813.
Hubbard, Vincent K.
Swords, Ships, and Sugar: History of Nevis to 1900.
Corvallis, Oreg.: Premiere Editions International, 1998.
Humphreys, Mary Gay.
Catherine Schuyler.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897.
Isaacson, Walter.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Jay, John.
An Address to the People of the State of New-York, on the Subject of the Constitution, Agreed upon at Philadelphia, the 17th of September, 1787.
New York: Samuel and John Loudon, 1797.
Jefferson, Thomas.
The Anas of Thomas Jefferson.
Ed. Franklin B. Sawvel. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.
———. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Vol. 2,
January 1 to August 6, 1787.
Ed. Julian Boyd. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1955.
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Vol. 18,
November 4 , 1790, to January 24, 1791.
Ed. Julian Boyd. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976.
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Vol. 24,
June 1 to December 31, 1792.
Ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
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The Works of Thomas Jefferson.
Vol. 1. Ed. Paul Leicester Ford. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904.
Jouve, Daniel.
Paris: Birthplace of the U.S.A., a Walking Guide.
Paris: Grund, 1995.
Kaminski, John P.
George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic.
Madison, Wisc.: Madison House, 1993.
Kennedy, Roger G.
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A
McCullough, David.
John Adams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
McDonald, Forrest.
Alexander Hamilton: A Biography
. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982 [1979].
McDonald, John.
Sermon on the Premature and Lamented Death of General Alexander Hamilton.
Boston: John Barber, 1804.
McDonough, Daniel J.
Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens: The Parallel Lives of Two American Patriots.
Sellinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 2000.
Maclay, William.
Journal of William Maclay: United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789–1791.
Ed. Edgar S. Maclay. New York: D. Appleton, 1890.
McNamara, Peter.
Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic.
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998.
Madison, James.
The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series.
Vol. 1,
March 1–September 30, 1809.
Ed. Robert A. Rutland, Robert J. Brugger, et al. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984.
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The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series.
Vol. 2,
October 1, 1809–November 2, 1810.
Ed. J.C.A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.
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The Papers of James Madison.
Vol. 10. Ed. Robert A. Rutland et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
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The Papers of James Madison.
Vol. 11. Ed. Robert A. Rutland et al. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.
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The Papers of James Madison,
Vols. 12 and 13. Ed. Charles F. Hobson et al. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, 1981.
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The Papers of James Madison.
Vol. 16. Ed. J.C.A. Stagg et al. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.
Maier, Pauline.
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence.
New York: Random House, 1998 [1997].
Malone, Dumas.
Jefferson and His Time.
6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948–81.
Marsh, Philip M., ed.
Monroe’s Defense of Jefferson and Freneau Against Hamilton.
Oxford, Ohio: selfpublished, 1948.
Matthews, Joanna H.
A Short History of the Orphan Asylum Society in the City of New York.
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1893.
Mead, Walter Russell.
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Meleny, John C.
The Public Life of Aedanus Burke: Revolutionary Republican in Post-Revolutionary South Carolina.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.