Books
Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison. New York: The Library of America, 1986. Originally published as part of History of the United States of American during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, 1889–1891.
Ball, Charles. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man. New York: John S. Taylor, 1837.
Berton, Pierre. Flames Across the Border, 1813–1814. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981.
———.The Invasion of Canada, 1812–1813. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980.
Burstein, Andrew. The Passions of Andrew Jackson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Caffrey, Kate. The Twilight’s Last Gleaming: Britain vs. America, 1812–1815. New York: Stein and Day, 1977.
Callcott, Margaret L., ed. Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795–1821. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Clark, Allen C. Life and Letters of Dolly Madison. Washington, D.C.: W. F. Roberts, 1914.
Cleaves, Freeman. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939.
Coles, Harry L. The War of 1812. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
Cruikshank, The Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier in the Year 1813. Welland, Ontario: Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, 1902.
Dangerfield, George. The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815–1828. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
———. The Era of Good Feelings. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952.
Dillon, Richard. We Have Met the Enemy: Oliver Hazard Perry: Wilderness Commodore. New York: McGraw Hill, 1978.
Dwight, Theodore. History of the Hartford Convention with a Review of the Policy of the United States Government Which Led to the War of 1812. New York: N. & J. White, 1833.
Edmunds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership. New York: Little, Brown, 1984.
Eisenhower, John S. D. Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott. New York: Free Press, 1997.
Engleman, Fred L. The Peace of Christmas Eve. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1960.
Ewell, James. The Medical Companion. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Anderson & Meecham, 1816.
Fitch, Raymond E., ed. Breaking with Burr: Harman Blennerhassett’s Journal, 1807. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1988.
Fitz-Enz, David G. The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812’s Most Decisive Battle. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001.
Fleming, Thomas. Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Forester, C. S. The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956.
Fredriksen, John C. War of 1812 Eyewitness Accounts: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Garraty, John A. The American Nation: A History of the United States. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Gleig, G. R. The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972. Originally published by John Murray, London, 1827.
Grant, Bruce. Isaac Hull: Captain of Old Ironsides. Chicago: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1947.
Graves, Donald E. Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler’s Farm, 1813. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 1999.
———. Where Right and Glory Lead! The Battle of Lundy’s Lane, 1814. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 1997.
Hansen, Harry. Old Ironsides: The Fighting Constitution. New York: Random House, 1955.
Heidler, Jeanne T., and David S. Heidler, eds. Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1997.
Hendrickson, Robert. Hamilton, vol. 2 (1789–1804). New York: Mason/Charter, 1976.
Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Hill, Charles E. “James Madison,” in Samuel Flagg Bemis, ed. The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, vol. 3, New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1963. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1928.
Hitsman, J. Mackay. The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 1999. This edition updated by Donald E. Graves. Originally published by University of Toronto Press, 1965.
Hull, William. Memoirs of the Campaign of the North Western Army of the United States, A.D. 1812. Boston: True & Greene, 1824.
Jacobs, James R. Tarnished Warrior: The Story of Major-General James Wilkinson. New York: Macmillan, 1938.
Jomini, Antoine. The Art of War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, n.d. Originally published by J. B. Lippincott, 1862.
Latour, Arsene Lacarrière. Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814–15. Gainesville, Fla.: Historic New Orleans Collection and University Press of Florida, 1999, with an introduction by and edited by Gene A. Smith. Originally published by John Conrad and Company, Philadelphia 1816.
Lavender, David. The Fist in the Wilderness. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964.
Lodge, Henry Cabot. Life and Letters of George Cabot. Boston: Little Brown, 1878.
Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805–1836. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982.
Lord, Walter. The Dawn’s Early Light. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.
Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869.
Lowther, Minnie Kendall. Blennerhassett Island in Romance and Tragedy. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 1939.
McAfee, Robert Breckinridge. History of the Late War in the Western Country, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Unversity Microfilms, 1966. Originally published by Worsley & Smith, Lexington, Kentucky, 1816.
Macdonough, Rodney. The Life of Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy. Boston: Fort Hill Press, 1909.
Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell. The Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840.
Maclay, Edgar Stanton. A History of the United States Navy, vol. 1. New York: D. Appleton, 1910.
Mahan, A. T. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812. Boston: Little, Brown, 1905.
Mahon, John K. The War of 1812. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1972.
Malcomson, Robert. Lords of the Lake: The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812–1814. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.
———. Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
Muller, Charles G. The Proudest Day: Macdonough on Lake Champlain. New York: John Day, 1960.
Nettles, Curtis P. The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775–1815, vol. 3 of The Economic History of the United States. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
Owsley, Frank Lawrence Jr. Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812–1815. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1981.
Parton, James. Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Mason Brothers, 1860.
Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812–1823. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.
———. Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805–1812. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.
Perkins, Dexter. A History of the Monroe Doctrine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.
Pitch, Anthony S. The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Pratt, Julius W. A History of United States Foreign Policy. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1955.
Ramsay, Jack C., Jr. Jean Laffite: Prince of Pirates. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1996.
Reilly, Robin. The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974.
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars. New York: Viking, 2001.
———. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
———. The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America’s First Military Victory. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
———. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Naval War of 1812. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987. Originally published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1882.
Scott, Winfield. Memoirs of Lieut.-General Scott, LL.D. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. Originally published in 1864.
Skaggs, David Curtis, and Gerard T. Altoff. A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812–1813. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Sugden, John. Tecumseh: A Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.
Tucker, Glenn. Poltroons and Patriots: A Popular Account of the War of 1812. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1954.
Watson, Paul Barron. The Tragic Career of Commodore James Barron. New York: Coward-McCann, 1942.
Whitaker, Arthur Preston. The Spanish-American Frontier, 1783–1795. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1969. Reprint of 1927 edition.
Wilkinson, James. Memoirs of My Own Times. Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1816.
Articles
Austin, Catherine, ed. “Letters of Elbridge Gerry, Jr.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 47 (June 1914), pp. 480–528.
“John Quincy Adams to Charles B. Cochran, from Ghent, July 18, 1814.” American Historical Review 15 (April 1910), p. 574.
“Letters of John Quincy Adams,” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 10 (December, 1895) pp. 374–92.
R. B. McAfee, “William H. Harrison,” The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events (Boston J. B. Millet, 1907), vol. 11, pp. 309–36.
Taylor, John M. “An Accomplished Villain.” American History Illustrated 13, no. 9 (January 1979) pp. 4–9, 47–49.
Webster, Noah. “Letter to Daniel Webster, 1834.” American Historical Review 9 (October 1903), p. 104.
Papers and Government Documents
Adams, Charles F., ed. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, vol. 3. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1874.
Adams, Henry, ed. The Writings of Albert Gallatin, vol. 1. New York: Antiquairan Press, 1960. Originally published in 1879 by: J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia.
Annals of the Congress of the United States. Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses.
Bergh, Albert Ellery, ed. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 14. Washington D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1903.
Brunson, Alfred. A Western Pioneer, or, Incidents in the Life and Times of Alfred Brunson. 2 vols. Cincinnati: Hitchcock, Walden, 1872.
Bureau of American Ethnology. Annual Report, 1897–1898. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900.
Dudley, William S., ed. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, vol. 1, 1812. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1985.
———. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, vol. 2, 1813. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1992.
Esarey, Logan, ed. Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison, vol. 1, 1800–1811. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission, 1923.
Hamilton, Stanislaus Murray, ed. The Writings of James Monroe, vol. 5, 1807–1816. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1901.
Hastings, Hugh, ed. Public Papers of Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of New York, 1807–1817, Military–vol. 3. Albany: J. B. Lyon, 1902.
Hopkins, James F., ed. The Papers of Henry Clay, vol. 1., The Rising Statesman, 1797–1814. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1959.
Hunt, Gaillard, ed. The Writings of James Madison, vol. 8, 1808–1819. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908.
Kline, Mary-Jo, ed. Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr, vol. 2. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Meriwether, Robert L., ed. The Papers of John C. Calhoun, vol. 1, 1801–1817. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1959.
Moser, Harold D., et al., eds. The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 3, 1814–1815. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
———. The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 4, 1816–1820. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.
Stagg, J. C. A. The Papers of James Madison. Presidential Series, vol. 4, November 5, 1811–July 9, 1812. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Syrett, Harold C., ed. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 23, April 1799–October 1799. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.
———. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 25, July 1800–April 1802. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
———. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, May 1, 1802–October 23, 1804. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Warren-Adams Letters, Being Chiefly a Correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren, vol. 2, 1778–1814. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1925.
Wiltse, Charles M., ed. The Papers of Daniel Webster: Speeches and Formal Writings, vol. 1, 1800–1833. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1986.
Newspapers
Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh).
Columbian Centinel (Boston).
Connecticut Courant (Hartford).
Federal Republican (Georgetown).
London Morning Chronicle.
London Times.
Niles’ Weekly Register.
New York Gazette.
New York Post.
New York Evening Post.
Salem Gazette (Massachusetts).
United States Gazette.