BIOGRAPHIES AND WRITINGS OF NOTABLE FIGURES
ADAMS, ABIGAIL
Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Boston: Little, Brown. 1980. 218 pp. E322.1 A38 A35
Withey, Lynne. Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams. New York: Free Press, 1981. 384 pp. E322.1 A38 W56
ADAMS, JOHN (AND FAMILY)
Butterfield, L. H., Marc Friedlaender, and Mary-Jo Kline, eds. The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1975. 422 pp. E322.1 A293
Butterfield, L. H., Robert J. Taylor, and Richard Alan Ryerson, editors in chief. The Adams Papers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1961-. Relevant titles include the following; completed titles specify number of volumes.
--Series I, Diaries. L. H. Butterfield et al., eds., Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, 4 vols.; The Earliest Diary of John Adams, 1 vol. E322 A3; E322 A34
--Series II, Adams Family Correspondence. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, et al., eds., Adams Family Correspondence. E322.1 A27
--Series III, General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, eds., Legal Papers of John Adams, 3 vols. Robert J. Taylor et al., eds., Papers of John Adams. JK1361 C6; E302 A6
--Series IV, Adams Family Portraits. Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John and Abigail Adams, 1 vol. N7628 A30 055; E377 04
Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 2 vols. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1959. E322 A516
Ellis, Joseph J. Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. New York: Norton, 1993. 277 pp. E321 F45
Shaw, Peter. The Character of John Adams. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1976. 334 pp. E322 S54
Smith, Page. John Adams. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962. E322 S64
ADAMS, SAMUEL
Miller, John C. Sam Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda. Boston: Little, Brown, 1936. 438 pp. E302 A2 M56
ALLEN, ETHAN
Jellison, Charles A. Ethan Allen: Frontier Rebel. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1969. 368 pp. E207 A4 J4
ARNOLD BENEDICT
Brandt, Clare. The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold. New York. Random House. 1994. 382 pp. E2787 A7 B73
Randall, Willard Sterne. Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor. New York: Morrow, 1990. 667 pp. E278 A7 R36
BARTLETT, JOSIAH
Mevers, Frank C., ed. The Papers of Josiah Bartlett. Hanover, N.H.: New Hampshire Historical Society, Univ. Press of New England, 1979. 516 pp. E302.6 B2 A2
BEAUMARCHAIS
Kite, Elizabeth S. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence. 2 vols. Boston: Richard G. Badger, Gorham Press, 1918. PQ1956 K5
BOUQUET HENRY
Stevens, S. K., Donald H. Kent, and Autumn L. Leonard, eds. The Papers of Henry Bouquet. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1951-. F152 B77
BRANT, JOSEPH
Kelsay, Isabel Thompson. Joseph Brant, 1743-1807: Man of Two Worlds. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1984. 790 pp. E99 I7 B784
BURR, AARON
Kline, Mary-Jo, et al., eds. Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1983. E302 B92
Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. 458 pp. E302.6 B9 L7
CARROLL, JOHN
Hanley, Thomas O'Brien, S.J., ed. The John Carroll Papers. 3 vols. Notre Dame, Ind.: American Catholic Historical Association, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1976. BX4705 C33 A34
CARTER, LANDON
Greene, Jack P., ed. The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter of 1752-1778. 2 vols. Charlottesville: Virginia Historical Society, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1965. F229 C29
CHAUNCY, CHARLES
Griffin, Edward M. Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1980. 258 pp. BX7260 C527 G74
CLINTON, HENRY
Willcox, William B. Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence. New York: Knopf, 1964. 572 pp. DA67.1 C55 W5
COOPER, SAMUEL
Akers, Charles W. The Divine Politician: Samuel Cooper and the American Revolution in Boston. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1982. 458 pp. F73.44 C7 A38
COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON
Klayman, Richard. America Abandoned: John Singleton Copley's American Years, 1738-1774: An Interpretative History. Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America, 1983. 134 pp. ND1329 C67 K4
Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: National Gallery of Art, Harvard Univ. Press, 1966. ND237 C7 P7
CORNWALLIS
Wickwire, Franklin, and Mary Wickwire. Cornwallis: The American Adventure. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. 502 pp. E267 W48
DICKINSON, JOHN
Flower, Milton E. John Dickinson: Conservative Revolutionary. Charlottesville: Friends of the John Dickinson Mansion, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1983. 352 pp. E302.6 D5 F57
DRINKER, ELIZABETH
Crane, Elaine Forman, et al., eds. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker. 3 volumes. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1991. 2,333 pp. F158.9 F89 D75
DULANY, DANIEL (AND FAMILY)
Land, Aubrey C. The Dulanys of Maryland: A Biographical Study of Daniel Dulany, the Elder (1685-1753), and Daniel Dulany, the Younger (1722-1797). 2d ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1968. 404 pp. F184 D8 L3
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN
Ketcham, Ralph. Benjamin Franklin. New York: Washington Square Press, 1966. 242 pp. E302.6 F8 K43
Labaree. Leonard W., ed. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1964. 360 pp. E302.6 F7 A2
Labaree, Leonard W., et al., eds. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1959-. E302 F82
Lemay, J. A. Leo, and P. M. Zall, eds. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic Text. Center for Editions of American Authors. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1981. 352 pp. E302.6 F7 A2
Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin. New York: Viking, 1938. 888 pp. E302.6 F8 V33
Wright, Esmond. Franklin of Philadelphia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1986. 424 pp. E302.6 F8 W69
GADSDEN, CHRISTOPHER
Godbold, E. Stanly, Jr., and Robert H. Woody. Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1982. 314 pp. E302.6 G15 G62
Walsh, Richard, ed. The Writings of Christoper Gadsden, 1746-1805. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1966. 370 pp. E302 G14 A2
GATES, HORATIO
Nelson, Paul David. General Horatio Gates: A Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1976. 334 pp. E207 G3 N44
GEORGE III
Brooke, John. King George III. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. 432 pp. DA506 A2 B75
Clarke, John. Life and Times of George III. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. 224 pp. DA506 A2 C43
GRAVIER, CHARLES
Murphy, Orville T. Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes: French Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution, 1719-1787. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1982. 620 pp. DC131.9 V3 M84
GREENE, NATHANAEL
Showman, Richard K., et al., eds. The Papers of General
Nathanael Greene. 4 vols. to date. Chapel Hill: Rhode Island Historical Society, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1980-. E203 G73
Thayer, George Theodore. Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution. New York: Twayne, 1960. 500 pp. E207 G9 T48
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER
Cooke, Jacob Ernest. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Scribner's, 1982. 284 pp. E302.6 H2 C 73
McDonald, Forrest. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1979. 478 pp. E302.6 H2 M32
Stourzh, Gerald. Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Government. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1970. 286 pp. E302.6 H8 S8
Syrett, Harold C., et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1961-1987. E302 H247
HANCOCK, JOHN
Baxter, William T. The House of Hancock: Business in Boston, 1724-1775. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1945. 350 pp. HF3163 B6 B35
Fowler William M., Jr. The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. 380 pp. E302.6 H23 F65
HENRY, PATRICK
Beeman, Richard R. Patrick Henry: A Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. 246 pp. E302.6 H5 B44
Meade, Robert Douthat. Patrick Henry. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957-1969. E302.6 H5 M4
IREDELL, JAMES
Higginbotham, Don, ed. The Papers of James Iredell. 2 vols. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1976. KF8745 I7 A4
JAY, JOHN
Johnston, Henry P., ed. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay... 3 vols. New York: Putnam's, 1890-1891. E302
Morris, Richard B. John Jay: The Nation and the Court. Boston: Boston Univ. Press, 1967. 128 pp. KF8745 J3 M6
Morris, Richard B., et al., eds. John Jay:... Unpublished Papers.... 2 vols. New York: Harper and Row, 1975-1980.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS
Boyd, Julian P., et al. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1950-. E302 J463
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1987. 430 pp. E332 C95
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time. 6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948-1981. E332 M25
Matthews, Richard K. The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1984. pp. E332.2 M37
Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970. 1088 pp. P45
LAFAYETTE
Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette in America, 1777-1783. 3 vols. Arveyres, France: L' Esprit de Lafayette Society, 1975. Reprint of the three following volumes. E207 L2 G685
Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette Comes to America. Chicago: Univ. Of Chicago Press, 1935. 196 pp. D146 L2 G6
Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette Joins the American Army. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1937. 380 pp. E207 L2 G7
Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette and the Close of the American Revolution. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1942. 470 pp. E207 L2 G68
Gottschalk, Louis. Lafayette between the American and the French Revolution (1783-1789). Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1950. 474 pp. DC146 L2 G59
Idzerda, Stanley J., et al., eds. Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1977-. E207 L2 A4
LAURENS HENRY
Hamer, Philip M., et al., eds. The Papers of Henry Laurens. 11 vols. to date. Columbia: South Carolina Historical Society, Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1974-E302 L3
LEE, ARTHUR
Potts, Louis W. Arthur Lee: A Virtuous Revolutionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1981. 330 pp. E302.6 L38 P67
LEE, CHARLES
Alden, John Richard. General Charles Lee: Traitor or Patriot? Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1951. 380 pp. E207 L47 A5
LEE, HENRY
Royster, Charles. Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1981. 316 pp. E207 L5 R69
LEE, RICHARD HENRY
Ballagh, James Curtis, ed. The Letters of Richard Henry Lee. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1911-1914. E302 L472
LINCOLN, BENJAMIN
Mattern, David B. Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 307.
LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM
Livingston, William, et al. The Independent Reflector; or Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects, More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New-York. Ed. Milton M. Klein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1963. 470 pp. AP2 A2 I4
Prince, Carl E., et al., eds. The Papers of William Livingston. 5 vols. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1979-1988. E302 L63
McKEAN, THOMAS
Rowe, G. S. Thomas McKean: The Shaping of an American Republican. Boulder: Colorado Associated Univ. Press, 1978. 518 pp. E302.6 M13 R68
MADISON, JAMES
Brant, Irving. James Madison. 6 vols. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941-1961. E342 B7
Hutchinson, William T., et al., eds. The Papers of James Madison. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1962-1977; Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1977-. E302 M19
Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1971. 768 pp. E342 K46
MARSHALL, JOHN
Baker, Leonard. John Marshall: A Life in Law. New York: Macmillan 1974. 862 pp. KF8745 M3 B3
MARTIN, LUTHER Clarkson, Paul S., and R. Samuel Jett. Luther Martin of Maryland. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1970. 346 pp. KF368 M5 C5
MASON, GEORGE
Miller, Helen Hill. George Mason: Gentleman Revolutionary. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1975. 400 pp. M45 M53
Rutland, Robert A., ed. The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792. 3 vols. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1970. E302 M38
MAZZEI, PHILIP
Marchione, Margherita, Stanley Idzerda, and S. Eugene Scalia, eds. Philip Mazzei: Selected Writings and Correspondence. 3 vols. Prato, Italy: Cassa di Risparmi e Depositi di Prato, dist. Kraus Reprint, 1983. E302.6 M49 A3
MONROE, JAMES
Ammon, Harry. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 718 pp. E372 A65
MORGAN, DANIEL
Higginbotham, Don. Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1961. 252PP. E207 M8 H5
MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR
Mintz, Max M. Gouverneur Morris and the American Revolution. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1970. 298 pp.
MORRIS, ROBERT
Ferguson, E. James, et al., eds. The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1975-. E302.6 M8 A35
Ver Steeg, Clarence L. Robert Morris: Revolutionary Financier, with an Analysis of His Earlier Career. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1954. 276 pp. E302.6 M8 V4
NORTH, LORD
Thomas, Peter D. G. Lord North. New York: St. Martin's, 1976. 184 pp. DA506 N7 T48
OTIS, JAMES (AND FAMILY)
Waters, John J., Jr. The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1968. 238 pp. CS71 088
PAINE, THOMAS
Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976. 348 pp. JC178 V2 F65
Foner, Philip S., ed. The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine. 2 vols. New York: Citadel, 1945. JC177 A3
PEALE, CHARLES WILLSON
Miller, Lillian B., et al., eds. The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. 2 vols. to date. New Haven: National Portrait Gallery, Yale Univ. Press, 1983-. ND237 P27 S37
Miller, Lillian B., and David C. Ward, eds. New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, for the Smithsonian Institution 1991. 335 pp. ND237 P27 N48
Sellers, Charles Coleman. Charles Willson Peale. New York: Scribner's, 1969. 524 pp. ND237 P27 S44
PENDLETON, EDMUND
Mays, David John. Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803: A Biography. 2 vols. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1984. KF363 P4 M38
Mays, David John, ed. The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803. 2 vols. Charlottesville: Virginia Historical Society, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1967. F230 P385
RANDOLPH, JOHN
Dawidoff, Robert. The Education of John Randolph. New York: Norton 1979. 346 pp. E302.6 R2 D28
RUSH, BENJAMIN
Butterfield, L. H., ed. Letters of Benjamin Rush. 2 vols. Princeton: American Philosophical Society, Princeton Univ. Press, 1951. R154 R9 A4.
D'Elia, Donald J. Benjamin Rush: Philosopher of the American Revolution. American Philosophical Society, Transactions, N.S., LXIV, pt. 5. Philadelphia, 1974. 114 pp. E302.6 R85 D44: 011 P6 ns v. 64, pt. 5
Hawke, David Freeman. Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. 500 pp. E302.6 R85 H3
SCHUYLER, PHILIP
Gerlach, Don R. Philip Schuyler and the American Revolution in New York, 1733-1777. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1964. 380 pp. E207 S3 G4
Gerlach, Don R. Proud Patriot: Philip Schuyler and the War of Independence. 1775-1783. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1987. 652 pp. E207 S3 G423
STILES, EZRA
Morgan, Edmund S. The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles 1727-1795. New Haven: IEAHC, Yale Univ. Press, 1962. 500 pp. LD6330 1778 M6
STUART, GILBERT
McLanathan, Richard. Gilbert Stuart: The Father of American Portraiture. New York: Abrams, 1986. 160 pp. ND1329 S7 M39
TAYLOR, JOHN
Shalhope, Robert E. John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1980. 314 pp. E302.6 T23 S42
TRUMBULL, JOHN
Cooper, Helen A. John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter. New Haven: Yale Univ. Art Gallery, dist. Yale Univ. Press, 1982. 308 pp. ND237 T8 A4
Jaffee, Irma B. John Trumbull, Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution. Boston: New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown, 1975. 352 pp. ND237 T8 A33
WASHINGTON, GEORGE
Abbot, W. W., ed. The Papers of George Washington. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1976. Completed titles specify number of volumes.
--W. W. Abbot et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington: Colonial Series; Revolutionary War Series; Presidential Series. R~12.72
--Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds., The Diaries of George Washington, 6 vols. 1976-1979. E312.8
Alden, John R. George Washington: A Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1984. 338 pp. E312 A58
Brookhiser. Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: Free Press, 1996. 240 pp. E312 B85
Ferling, John E. The First of Men: A Life of George Washington. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1988. 614 pp. E312 F47
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington: A Biography. 4 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965-1972. E312.2 F55, F56, F6, F69
Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. 442 pp. E312 F556
Freeman, Douglas Southall. George Washington: A Biography. 7 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1948-1957. (Vol. VII by John A. Carroll and Mary W. Ashworth.) E312 F82
Longmore, Paul K. The Invention of George Washington. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1988. 347 pp. E312.17 L84
Phelps, Glenn A. George Washington and American Constitutionalism. American Political Thought. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1993. 265 pp. E312.29 P44
WAYNE, ANTHONY
Nelson, Paul David. Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1985. 380 pp. E207 W35 N34
WEST, BENJAMIN
Alberts, Robert C. Benjamin West: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1987. 544 pp. ND237 W45 A6
WILSON, JAMES
McCloskey, Robert Green, ed. The Works of James Wilson. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1967. KF213 W5
Smith, Charles Page. James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1956. 440 pp. E302.6 W64 S6
WOOLMAN, JOHN
Moulton, Phillips P., ed. The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1971. 354 pp. BX7795 W7 A3