Authors: Harlow Giles Unger
Francis Wharton,
The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Edited under Direction of Congress, with preliminary index, and notes historical and legal. Published in conformity with Act of Congress of August 13, 1888
. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889, 6 vols.). [
A lawyer, clergyman, teacher, government official, author, and editor, Wharton (1820–1889) graduated from Yale University, won success as a lawyer in Philadelphia, and gained a formidable reputation for his works on criminal law. After the death of his wife in 1854, he turned to religious work for twenty years, before returning to the law and building a reputation in international law. After he became chief of the legal division of the U.S. Department of State in 1885, Congress entrusted him with compiling the definitive three-volume
Digest of the International Law of the United States,
to which the eight-volume
Revolutionary Correspondence
was a supplement. When meshed with the equivalent Doniol work from the archives of the French foreign ministry, Wharton’s work provides an almost minute-by-minute description and understanding of the entire American Revolutionary War.]
Brand Whitlock,
La Fayette
(New York: D. Appleton, 1929, 2 vols.). [
A prolific writer, political reformer, and diplomat, the Ohio-born Whitlock (1869–1934) had been a journalist and a lawyer before serving four terms as reform mayor of Toledo at the beginning of the twentieth century. After he had rid the city of graft, broken a local ice monopoly, and improved the lot of working men and women, the democratic administration rewarded him with an appointment as minister to Belgium at the outbreak of World War I. By that time, he had already published eight books, including one well-received novel. In Belgium, he worked tirelessly to organize food distribution among the civilian population of Belgium and the occupied zone of France. After the war, Belgium overwhelmed him with honors, and the U.S. government raised him to the rank of ambassador. He resigned in 1922 and spent the rest of his life in Europe—mostly in Brussels and the French Riviera—as a writer, “vacillating,” as he put
it, between fiction and nonfiction. In the last decade of his life he wrote two more novels, an autobiography, and his epic two-volume biography of Lafayette.]
Charles Francis Adams, ed.,
The Works of John Adams
(Boston, 1851).
John R. Alden,
A History of the American Revolution
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969).
Harry Ammon,
The Genet Mission
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1973).
————,
James Monroe
(Newtown, Conn.: American Political Biography Press, 1971).
Thomas C. Amory,
The military services and life of Major-General John Sullivan, of the American Revolutionary Army
(Boston, 1868).
Helen Augur,
The Secret War of Independence
(New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1955).
Olivier Bernier,
Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983).
Soulange Bodin,
La Diplomatie de Louis XV et le Pacte de Famille
(Paris, 1894).
Claude G. Bowers,
The Young Jefferson
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1945).
Edgar Ewing Brandon, ed.,
Lafayette, Guest of the Nation: A Contemporary Account of the
Triumphal Tour of General Lafayette Through the United States in 1824–25, as Reported
by the Local Newspapers
(Oxford, Ohio: 1950–1957, 3 vols.)
John Buchanan,
The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997).
L. H. Butterfield, ed.,
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams
(Cambridge, Mass., 1961, 4 vols.).
E. P. Chase, ed.,
Our Revolutionary forefathers: the letters of François, marquis Barbé de Marbois
(New York, 1929).
Marquis de Chastellux,
Travels in North America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782
(London, 1787, 2 vols.).
[Marquis de] Condorcet,
Mémoires sur la Révolution française extraits de sa correspondance et
de celle de ses amis
(Paris, 1824, 2 vols.).
W. P. Cresson,
James Monroe
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946).
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,
Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of
Eighteenth-Century America
(London, Davies and Davis, 1782), rewritten, expanded, and republished in Paris (1784) as
Lettres d’un cultivateur américain
. . . , (Paris, 1784).
Henri Doniol,
Une correspondence administrative sous Louis XVI, épisode de la jeunesse de La
Fayette
, dans les
Séances et travaux de l’Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
(1875).
———,
La Fayette dans la Révolution, Années d’Amérique, Années de Pouvoir et Années de
Geole la Veille du Consulat, 1775–1799
(Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1904).
Hadelin Donnet,
Chavaniac Lafayette: Le Manoir des deux mondes
(Paris: le cherche midi editeur, 1990).
François Ribadeau Dumas,
La destinée secrète de La Fayette ou le messianisme révolutionaire
(Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1972).
Susan Dunn,
Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999).
Harold Underwood Faulkner and Tyler Kepner,
America, Its History and People
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942).
John Ferling,
John Adams, A Life
(New York: Henry Holt, 1992).
Alfred Fierro,
Dictionnaire du Paris disparu
(Paris: Editions Parigramme. CPL, 1998).
John C. Fitzpatrick, ed.,
The Writings of Washington
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Congress, 39 vols.).
M. de Flassan,
Histoire générale et raisonnée de la Diplomatie française depuis la Fondation de
la Monarchie jusqu’à la Fin du Règne de Louis XVI
(Paris, 1811, 7 vols.).
W. C. Ford, ed.,
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789
, 34 vols.
G. W. Greene,
The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution
(New York, 1871, 3 vols.).
Stuart W. Jackson,
Lafayette, A Bibliography
(New York: Burt Franklin, 1930).
Daniel Jouve, Alice Jouve, Alvin Grossman,
Paris: Birthplace of the U.S.A.: A Walking
Guide for the American Patriot
(Paris: Gründ, 1995).
Friedrich Kapp,
The Life of John Kalb, major-general in the Revolutionary Army
(New York, 1870), translated from
Leben des amerikanischen Generals Johann Kalb
(Stuttgart, 1862).
Lloyd Kramer,
Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures & Personal Identities in an Age of
Revolutions
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
Bruce Lancaster,
From Lexington to Liberty, The Story of the American Revolution
(Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955).
André Lebey,
La Fayette, ou Le Militant Franc-Maçon
(Paris: Librairie Mercure, 1937).
Dumas Malone,
Jefferson the Virginian
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1948).
————,
Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1962).
————
, Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1970).
————
, Jefferson, the Sage of Monticello
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1977).
John Marshall,
Life of Washington
(Philadelphia, 1804–1807, 5 vols.)
[Masonic Publications] “L’Initiation du Général Lafayette,”
Le Symbolisme, Organe Mensuel d’Inititation à la Philosophie du Grand Art de la Construction Universelle
(Paris: Direction et Administration, 1923).
David McCullough,
John Adams
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001).
François Métra et al.,
Correspondance secrète, politique et littéraire
(London, 1787–1790, 18 vols.).
Meade Minnigerode,
Jefferson—Friend of France
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928).
James Monroe,
Autobiography of James Monroe
(Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1959, Stuart Gerry Brown, ed.).
————,
The Writings of James Monroe, 1778–1831
(Washington: United States Congress, 1849, 7 volumes, edited by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton).
George Morgan,
The Life of James Monroe
(Boston: Small, Maynard, 1921).
Richard B. Morris, ed.,
Encyclopedia of American History
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953).
Henry Mosnier,
Le Château de Chavaniac—Lafayette. Description-Histoire-Souvenirs
(Le Puy, 1883).
Saul K. Padover, ed.,
The Washington Papers
(Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1955).
Paul Pialoux,
Lafayette: Trois Révolutions pour la Liberté
(Brioude-Haute Loire: Edition Watel, 1989).
Abbé Guillaume Raynal,
Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements du Commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes
(Paris, 1773).
Abbé Claude Robin [chaplain to Comte de Rochambeau],
Nouveau voyage dans l’Amérique septentrionale en l’année 1781, etc
. (Philadelphia and Paris, 1782).
Comte de Ségur,
Mémoires, ou Souvenirs et Anecdotes
(Paris: Alexis Eymery, 1824–1826, 3 vols.).
James Thacher,
A military journal during the American Revolutionary War
(Boston, 1823).
Jules Thomas,
Correspondence Inédite de Lafayette, 1793–1801
(Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1903).
Lyon G. Tyler,
Letters and Times of the Tylers
(Richmond, 1884, 2 vols.).
Harlow Giles Unger,
John Hancock, Merchant King and American Patriot
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000).
————,
Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
American Minerva
Boston Magazine
Bulletin de la Societé de l’Histoire du Protestantism français
Gazette de Leyde
The
[New York]
Herald
Journal de Lyon
Mercure de France
National
[France]
New Plymouth Gazette
New York Spectator
Pennsylvania Journal
Revue Rétrospective
Bartlett’s Famous Quotations
Dictionnaire de Biographie Française
Dictionary of American Biographies
Dictionary of National Biographies
Encyclopedia of American Education
Encyclopedia Britannica, 10th Ed
.
Encyclopedia Universalis
Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia
The New Cambridge Modern History
Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres
Webster’s American Biographies
Webster’s New Biographical Dictionary
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