Early American Republic (1800-1850) Primary and Secondary Historical Sources
Compiled Fall 2009
Call numbers indicated are for the WIU Library
Secondary sources begin on page 6
Primary Sources
General documents
See the history databases at the WIU library site, at http://www.wiu.edu/library/databases/
in particular Historical Statistics of the United States; U.S. Congressional Serial Set; and the
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps.
American historical documents, 1000-1904 With introductions, notes and illus. E173 .A65 1910
The Annals of America [1968] REF. E173 .A793
Baritz, Loren, ed. Sources of the American mind : a collection of documents and texts in
American intellectual history E169.1 .B227
Bode, Carl, ed. American life in the 1840's. E165 .B7 1967a
Boller, Paul and Ronald Story, eds. A more perfect Union : documents in U.S. history E173
.M84 1996
Commager, Henry, ed. Documents of American history REF. E173 .C66 1973c
Copeland, David, ed. The Antebellum era : primary documents on events from 1820 to 1860.
E301 .D43 2003
Cunningham, Noble, ed. The Early Republic, 1789-1828. E301 .C88
Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of the new American nation : the emergence of the United
States, 1754-1829 REF. E301 .E53 2006
Gruver, Rebecca, ed. American Nationalism, 1783-1830: A Self-Portrait. E301 .G78 1970
Holmes, Abiel, ed. The annals of America, from the discovery by Columbus in the year 1492,
to the year 1826 [1829] SPECCOL. E178 .H74 1829
Irving, Mark and Eugene Schwaab. The faith of our fathers; an anthology expressing the
aspirations of the American common man, 1790-1860. E301 .M3 1952 1973f
Kutler, Stanley, ed. Dictionary of American history REF. E174 .D52 2003
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Levy, Peter, ed. 100 key documents in American democracy REF. E173 .A15 1994
The National cyclopedia of American biography. REF. E176 .N282 1984
Remini, Robert, ed. The Age of Jackson. E381 .R4 1972
Sosin, Jack, ed. The Opening of the West. F479 .S66
Wilson, Edward, ed. By these words; great documents of American liberty, selected and placed
in their contemporary settings E173 .A79
Sean Wilentz, ed., Major Problems in the History of the Early American Republic [or other
editions of this book]
Diplomacy and government
Davenport, Frances, ed. European treaties bearing on the history of the United States and its
dependencies. REF. E173 .D24 1967
Findling, John, ed. Dictionary of American diplomatic history REF. E183.7 .F5 1989
Manning, William, ed. Diplomatic correspondence of the United States concerning the
independence of the Latin-American nations F1418.M27 1925c 1969f
Mosher, Frederick, ed. Basic documents of American public administration, 1776-1950 JK411
.B3
The shaping of American diplomacy; readings and documents in American foreign relations,
1750-1900 [v.1] E183.7 .W727
Smith, Daniel, ed. Major problems in American diplomatic history : documents and readings
E183.7.S56
Webster, C.K., ed. Britain and the independence of Latin America, 1812-1830; select documents
from the Foreign Office Archives F1416.G7 W4 1938 1970r
Economics
Bennett, Norman, and George Brooks, Jr., eds. New England merchants in Africa : a history
through documents, 1802 to 1865 HF3132 .B4
Cunningham, Noble, ed. Jefferson vs. Hamilton: Confrontations That Shaped a Nation
E310.C86 2000
Folsom, Michael, and Steven Lubar, eds. The Philosophy of manufactures : early debates over
industrialization in the United States HC105 .P55 1982
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Major documents in American economic history. HC101 .H22
Diaries and foreigners’ accounts of America
Friedman, Jean, ed. Ways of wisdom : moral education in the early national period; including
The diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus LC311 .F75 2001
Hone, Philip. Diary 1828-1851. REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE.
Smith, Margaret Bayard. The First Forty Years of Washington Society. F196 .S55 1906 1965r
Strong, George Templeton. Diary. Selections E415.9.S86 A3
Mansfield, Harvey, and Delba Winthrop, eds. Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville
JK216 .T713
Nevins, Allan, ed. Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845; American diplomacy and political,
social, and intellectual life from Washington to Polk. E377 .A213
Smalley, Donald, ed. Domestic manners of the Americans; edited, with a history of Mrs.
Trollope’s adventures in America E165 .T84 1949
Immigration
Dublin, Thomas, ed. Immigrant voices : new lives in America, 1773-1986 JV6450 .I553 1993
Furer, Howard, ed. The British in America, 1578-1970; a chronology & fact book. E184.B7 F87
Furer, Howard, ed. The Scandinavians in America, 986-1970; a chronology & fact book.
E184.S18 F87
Renkiewicz, Frank, ed. The Poles in America, 1608-1972; a chronology & fact book. E184.P7
R46
Sloan, Irving, ed. The Jews in America, 1621-1970; a chronology & fact book. E184.J5 S57
Smit, Pamela and J. W. Smit, eds. The Dutch in America, 1609-1970; a chronology & fact book.
E184.D9 S6
Military records
A census of pensioners for revolutionary or military services [electronic resource] : with their
names, ages, and places of residence, as returned by the marshals of the several judicial
districts, under the act for taking the sixth census. [1841]
http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1840c-01.pdf
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Cruikshank, Ernest, ed. Documents relating to the invasion of Canada and the surrender of
Detroit, 1812 E355.2 .C2 1912 1971r
Dawson, Henry, ed. Battles of the United States : by sea and land: embracing those of the
Revolutionary and Indian wars, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War: with important official
documents SPECCOL. E181 .D27 1858
Wyckoff, Wade, ed. Sources on U.S. naval history in the United States [electronic resource]
GOVWEB. D 221.2:SO 8
Native Americans
The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas. REF. E77 .N62 1996
Champagne, Duane, ed. Chronology of native North American history : from pre-Columbian
times to the present REF. E77 .C555 1994
Heard, Norman. Handbook of the American frontier : four centuries of Indian-White
relationships REF. E76.2 .H43 1987
Waldman, Carl, ed. Biographical dictionary of American Indian history to 1900 REF. E89 .W35
2001
Francis Prucha, ed. Documents of United States Indian Policy LEGLREF. KF8205 .D63 2000
Presidents and Politics
Bishop, Arthur, ed. Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids.
E331 .B5
Durfee, David, ed. William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology,
documents, bibliographical aids. E391 .D8
Elliot, Ian, ed. James Madison, 1751-1836; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids. E357
.E4
Elliot, Ian, ed. James Monroe, 1758-1831; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids. E371 .E4
1969
Farrell, John, ed. James K. Polk, 1795-1849: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids. E416
.F26
Farrell, John, ed. Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874; chronology,
documents, bibliographical aids. E421 .F37
Jones, Kenneth, ed. John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical
aids. E376 .J6
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Nelson, Michael, ed. Historic documents on presidential elections, 1787-1988 REF. JK1965 .H56
1991
Remini, Robert, ed. The age of Jackson. E381 .R4 1972
Shade, William, and Ballard Campbell, eds. American presidential campaigns and elections
REF. JK1965 .A57 2003
Shaw, Ronald, ed. Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids.
E381 .S5
Sloan, Irving, ed. Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids.
E386.s55
Religion
Documents of American Catholic history. BX1405 .E4 1962
Patrick, John and Gerald Long, eds. Constitutional debates on freedom of religion : a
documentary history LEGLREF. KF4783 .C66 1999
Smith, Shelton, Robert Handy, and Lefferts Loetscher, eds. American Christianity; an historical
interpretation with representative documents BR514 .S55
Slavery
Walker, David. Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE.
Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America. E441 .D69
Finkelman, Paul, ed. Defending slavery : proslavery thought in the Old South : a brief history
with documents E449 .F496 2003
Greenberg, Kenneth, ed. The confessions of Nat Turner and related documents. Check with
reference librarian.
Nelson, Truman. Documents of upheaval; selections from William Lloyd Garrison's the
Liberator, 1831-1865. E449 .L68
Quarles, Benjamin, ed. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written
by himself E449 .D74905
Women/gender
James, Edward, ed. Notable American women, 1607-1950; a biographical dictionary. REF.
CT3260 .N57
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Norton, Mary Beth, ed. Major problems in American women's history : documents and essays
CURRLIB. 305.4 N886mj
The oven birds: American women on womanhood, 1820-1920. HQ1426 .P35
Ulrich, Laurel, ed. A midwife’s tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
F29.H15 U47 1990
Women together : a history in documents of the women's movement in the United States / by
Judith Papachristou. HQ1426 .P34
Secondary Sources
Overviews of the period
See the history databases at the WIU library site, at http://www.wiu.edu/library/databases/
in particular journals in the American History and Life database.
Peter Onuf, Jeffersonian America REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 HC105 .S38 1994
William Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 E468.9 .F84 1990
Daniel Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 E338 .H69
2007
Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: From Jefferson to Lincoln E302.1 .W55 2005
Louis Masur, 1831 [a broad snapshot of the United States in 1831] E381 .M37 2001
Paul Johnson The Early American Republic 1789-1829
Morton Horwitz The Transformation of American Law 1780-1860 KF366 .H6
Thomas Bender A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History [relevant
chapters] E178 .B428 2006
Norman Risjord Jefferson’s America 1760-1815 E195 .R58 2002
American Indians and U.S. policies towards Indians
Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars E381 .R413 2001
Reginald Horsman, Expansion and American Indian policy 1783-1812 E93 .H79
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Reginald Horsman Origins of Indian Removal E93 .H8
Francis Prucha Indian policy in the United States : historical essays E93 .P9664
R. David Edmunds, Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership E99.S35 T136 1984
Anthony Wallace, Jefferson and the Indians : the tragic fate of the first Americans E93 .W18
1999
Theda Perdue, Slavery and the evolution of Cherokee society, 1540-1866 E99.C5 P394
Christian Keller, “Philanthropy Betrayed: Thomas Jefferson, The Louisiana Purchase, and the
Origins of Federal Indian Removal Policy,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
144 (March 2000), 39-66
Immigration history, nativism, and history of citizenship
Roger Daniels, Coming to America E184.A1 D26
Ray Billington, Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860 BX1406 .B5 1963
Rogers Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History KF4700 .S63 1997
Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of
Citizenship HQ1236.5.U6 K47
Alexander Keyssar The Right to Vote JK1846 .K48 2000
Nancy Isenberg Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America HQ1236.5.U6 I83
American education
Lawrence Cremin, American Education: The National Experience LA215 .C74 1980
Carl Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic LA215 .K33 1983
Mary Kelley Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's
Republic REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Religion and reform
Frederick J. Blue. No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics REQUEST
THROUGH I-SHARE
Ronald Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860 HN64 .W2136 1978
Sean Wilentz, Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century
America REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
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Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Lewis Tappan the Evangelical War Against Slavery E449.T18 W9
Richard Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism BX8695.S6 B87
Mark Noll, America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln BT30.U6 N65 2002
Timothy McCarthy and John Stauffer, eds., Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of
American Abolitionism REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
William Hutchison Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions
BV2410 .H87 1987
Nathan Hatch The Democratization of American Christianity REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
John McGreevey Catholicism and American Freedom REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
American politics and civic life
James Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, and Peter Onuf, eds., The revolution of 1800 : democracy, race,
and the new republic REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Bruce Ackerman. The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise
of Presidential Democracy REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Joel Silbey. Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics. REQUEST
THROUGH I-SHARE
Richard Hofstadter, The Idea of a Party System JK2260 .H73
Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: the Politics of Jacksonian America E381 .W32 1990
Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson and the bank war; a study in the growth of presidential
power HG2525 .R4 1967
Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson and the course of American freedom, 1822-1832 E382 .R44
1981
Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845 E382 .R42
1984
Robert Remini, The House -- a history of the U.S. House of Representatives JK1319 .R46 2006
Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 17881800 E310 .E45 1995
Jeff Pasley, Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic REQUEST
THROUGH I-SHARE
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David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism,
1776-1820 E210 .W35 1997
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Honor and Violence in the Old South REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early
American Republic F129.C77 T38 1995
Daniel Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs JK2331 .H68
Forrest McDonald, The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson E331 .M32
Joyce Appleby Inheriting the Revolution: the First Generation of Americans E301 .A65 2000
William Freehling Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Crisis in South Carolina E384.3 .F7
Fred Somkin Unquiet Eagle: Memory and Desire in the Idea of American Freedom 1815-1860
E169.1 .S68
James Banner To the Hartford Convention: the Federalists and the origins of party politics in
Massachusetts, 1789-1815 E357.7 .B3
Joanne Freedman Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic E310 .F85 2001
Michael Fellman The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America HV6477 .F44
Glen Wallach Obedient Sons: The Discourse of Youth and Generations in American Culture
1630-1860 REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Economics and labor
Seth Rockman. _Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore_
REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
George Rogers Taylor, The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 HC103 .E25 v.4 1968
David Roediger, Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
HD4903.5.U6 R64 1999
Sean Wilentz Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class
1788-1850 HD8085.N53 W54 1984
Roger Kennedy. _Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana
Purchase_. E333 .K46 2003
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Popular, intellectual, and material culture
Peter Onuf, Jefferson’s empire : the language of American nationhood REQUEST THROUGH
I-SHARE
Lawrence Levine Highbrow-Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Philip Gura. _American Transcendentalism: A History_ REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Philip Gura. America’s instrument : the banjo in the nineteenth-century MUSIC. ML1015.B3
G87
Daniel Howe, Making the American self : Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln E169.1 .H76
Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities E162 .B986 1992
John Kasson Rudeness and civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America REQUEST
THROUGH I-SHARE
Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in
Nineteenth Century New York HQ146.N7 C65 1998
Slavery
Adam Rothman. _Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South_.
E446 .R67 2005
Robert H. Gudmestad. _A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate
Slave Trade_. REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Eric Burin. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization
Society REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Deborah Gray White, Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South E443 .W58 1985
Bruce Dain. _A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic_.
GN269 .D34 2002
Walter Johnson Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market F379.N59 N4 1999
Eugene Genovese Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made E443 .G46
Eugene Genovese The political economy of slavery; studies in the economy & society of the
slave South E442 .G45
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Michael Morrison Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny E415.7
.M88 1997
Matthew Mason Slavery and Politics in the Early American republic REQUEST THROUGH ISHARE
James Oakes Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South E441 .O19 1990
James Oakes Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveowners E441 .O18 1982
Foreign relations and American wars
Tim Matthewson A Proslavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations during the Early
Republic REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Robert Tucker and David Hendrickson Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson
REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Bradford Perkins, The Creation of a Republican Empire. 1776-1865 REQUEST THROUGH ISHARE
Bradford Perkins Castlereagh and Adams; England and the United States, 1812-1823. E358 .P4
Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
E377 .B45 1949
Donald Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict E354 .H53 1989
Frank Lambert, The Barbary Wars: American independence in the Atlantic world REQUEST
THROUGH I-SHARE
John Schroeder, Mr. Polk's War: American Opposition and Dissent, 1846-1848 E415.2 .S3
Thomas Hietala Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire REQUEST
THROUGH I-SHARE
K. Jack Bauer The Mexican War 1846-1848 E404 .B37 1993
Robert May Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America E415.7 .M25
2002
Robert Remini The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military
Victory E356.N5 R46 1999
TransAtlantic/transCaribbean/Mediterranean
Robert Allison, Crescent Obscured: the United States and the Muslim world, 1776-1815
REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
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Timothy Roberts Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Alfred Hunt, Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America E184.H27 H86 1988
David Brion Davis, Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations
E209 .D38 1990
David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution HT867 .D38
William Appleman Williams, America Confronts a Revolutionary World, 1776-1976 E175.9
.W49
Lester Langley, The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850 E18.82 .L36 1996
Michael Durey Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American republic REQUEST THROUGH
I-SHARE
Robert Sutton, Communal utopias and the American experience : secular communities, 18242000 HX653 .S88 2004
Robert Sutton, Communal utopias and the American experience : religious communities, 17322000 HX653 .S88 2003
Carl Guarneri Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth Century America HX654 .G82
1991
Jamie Bronstein Land Reform and Working Class Consciousness in Britain and the United
States, 1800-1862 HD1333.G7 B76 1999
Edmund Morgan Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and
America JF1059.G7 M67
Bonnie Anderson Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement 1830-1860
HQ1154 .A6856 2000
Andrew Robertson, The language of democracy : political rhetoric in the United States and
Britain, 1790-1900 REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Women/Gender
Stephanie McCurry Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the
Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country REQUEST THROUGH ISHARE
Alisse Portnoy. _Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates_.
HQ1236.5.U6 P67 2005
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Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover, eds. _Southern Manhood: Perspectives on
Masculinity in the Old South_. REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE.
Judith Wellman. _The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's
Rights Convention_. WNCTR. HQ1413.S67 W45 2004
Kirsten E. Wood. _Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution
through the Civil War_. E443 .W666 2004
Lori D. Ginzberg. _Untidy Origins: A Story of Women's Rights in Antebellum New York_.
REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Rosemarie Zagarri Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American
Republic REQUEST THROUGH I-SHARE
Paula Baker, “The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 17801920,” American Historical Review 89 (June 1984), 620-647
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