Bibliography of Andrew Jackson explained

The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to Andrew Jackson.

Biographies

• Book: Bassett, John Spencer . 1911 . The Life of Andrew Jackson . New York . Doubleday Page & Company. vol 1 online; vol 2 online
• Book: Booraem, Hendrik . 2001 . Young Hickory: The Making of Andrew Jackson . registration . Lanham, MD . Taylor Trade Publishing . 0-8783-3263-4. ; 344 pages; coverage to age 21
• Book: Brands, H. W. . 2005 . Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times . New York . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group . registration . 1-4000-3072-2 . H. W. Brands.
• Book: Brown, David S. . 2022 . The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson . New York . Charles Scribner's Sons . 978-1-9821-9109-2 . David S. Brown.
• Book: Cheathem, Mark R. . 2013 . Andrew Jackson, Southerner . Baton Rouge, LA . Louisiana State University Press . 978-0807-15098-6.
• Book: Curtis, James C. . 1976 . Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication . registration . Boston. Little, Brown and Co. . 978-0-673-39334-0 .
• Book: Eaton. John H. . Reid. John. 1824 . The Life of Andrew Jackson, Major-General in the Service of the United States: Comprising a History of the War in the South, from the Commencement of the Creek campaign, to the Termination of the Hostilities before New Orleans. Philadelphia. Samuel F. Bradford. John Eaton (politician) .
• Book: Eaton. John H. . Reid. John. Smith. Jerome V. C.. 1885 . The Complete Memoirs of Andrew Jackson : Seventh President of the United States ; Containing a Full Account of his Military Life and Achievements, with His Career as President. New York. Hurst & Co.. John Eaton (politician). Jerome V. C. Smith.
• Book: James, Marquis . 1933 . Andrew Jackson: The Boarder Captain . New York . Literary Guild . Marquis James.
• Book: James, Marquis . 1937 . Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President . registration . New York . Grosset & Dunlap.
• Book: Kendall, Amos . 1843 . Life of Andrew Jackson: Private, Military, and Civil . New York . Harper & Brothers . 9780795023637 . 6738380 . Amos Kendall.
• Book: Latner, Richard B. . Andrew Jackson . Graff . Henry . 2002 . The Presidents: A Reference History . 3 . https://archive.org/details/presidentsrefere00graf . Charles Scribner's Sons . New York . 978-0-684-31226-2 . 49029341 . registration .
• Book: Meacham, Jon . 2008 . American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House . registration . New York . Random House Publishing Group . 978-0-8129-7346-4 . Jon Meacham.
• Book: Parton, James . 1860a . Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 1 . New York . Mason Brothers . 3897681 . James Parton.
• Book: Parton, James . 1860b . Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 2 . New York . Mason Brothers . 3897681.
• Book: Parton, James . 1860c . Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 3 . New York . Mason Brothers . 3897681.
• Book: Remini, Robert . Andrew Jackson . 1966 . New York . HarperCollins . Robert V. Remini.
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 1977 . Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821 . registration . New York . Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. . 0-8018-5912-3.
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 1981 . Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822–1832 . New York . Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. . 978-0-8018-5913-7.
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 1984 . Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 . New York . Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. . 0-8018-5913-1.
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 1988 . The Life of Andrew Jackson . New York . Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. . 0-0618-0788-5. Abridgment of Remini's 3-volume biography.
• Remini, Robert V. "Andrew Jackson", American National Biography (2000).
• Book: Snelling, William Joseph . 1831 . A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson . 164 . Boston. Stimpson & Clapp . 6692507 . William Joseph Snelling.
• Book: Sumner, William Graham . 1972 . 1882 . American Statesman: Andrew Jackson . New York, NY . AMS Press Inc. . 0-404-50867-7 . William Graham Sumner.
• Book: Wilentz, Sean . 2005 . Andrew Jackson . New York . Henry Holt and Company . 0-8050-6925-9 . Sean Wilentz.

Military

• Book: McLemore . Laura Lyons . 2016 . The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory . Baton Rouge, LA . LSU Press . 978-0807-16467-9.
• Ratner, Lorman A. Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture (1997).
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 2001 . 1999 . The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory . London, UK . Penguin Books . 978-1101-19997-8.
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 2001 . Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars . London, UK . Penguin Books . 0-7861-8568-6.
• Book: Rowland, Dunbar . 1926 . Andrew Jackson's Campaign against the British, or, the Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812, concerning the Military Operations of the Americans, Creek Indians, British, and Spanish, 1813–1815 . New York . MacMillan Company.

Indian removal

• Berutti . Ronald A. . 1992 . The Cherokee Cases: The Fight to Save the Supreme Court and the Cherokee Indians . American Indian Law Review . 17 . 1. 291–308 . 10.2307/20068726 . 20068726 .
• Cave . Alfred A. . 2003 . Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830 . Historian . 65 . 6. 1330–1353 . 10.1111/j.0018-2370.2003.00055.x . 144157296 . free .
• Book: Cumfer, Cynthia . 2007 . Separate peoples, one land: The minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee frontier . Chapel Hill, NC . University of North Carolina Press . 978-0-8078-3151-9.
• Book: Garrison, Tim Allen . 2002 . The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations . Athens, GA . University of Georgia Press . 0-8203-3417-0.
• Book: Inskeep, Steve . 2015 . Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab . London, UK . Penguin Books . 978-1101-61777-9.
• Book: Jahoda, Gloria . The Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813–1855 . Holt, Rinehart and Winston . New York . 1975 . 0-03-014871-5.
• Book: Mann, Barbara Alice . 2009 . The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion . ABC-CLIO . 20. 9780313353383.
• Prucha . Francis Paul . 1969 . Andrew Jackson's Indian policy: a reassessment . 1904204 . Journal of American History . 56 . 3 . 527–539 . Francis Paul Prucha . 10.2307/1904204.

Bank War

• Book: Bogart, Ernest Ludlow. Ernest L. Bogart

. Ernest L. Bogart . 1907 . The Economic History of the United States . 219 . London, UK . Longmans, Green, and Company.

• Book: Campbell, Stephen W. . 2019 . The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America . Lawrence, KS . University Press of Kansas . 1066117752. 9780700627448 .
• Book: Hammond, Bray . 1957 . Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War . Princeton, NJ . Princeton University Press . 890993 . Bray Hammond. 0691005532 .
• Book: Kahan, Paul . 2016 . The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance . Yardley, PA . Westholme Publishing LLC . 978-1594-16234-3.
• Book: McFaul, John M. . 1972 . The Politics of Jacksonian Finance . registration . Ithaca, NY . Cornell University Press . 409631. 9780801407383 .
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 1967 . Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power . registration . New York, NY . W. W. Norton & Company . 978-0393-09757-3.
• Book: Sellers, Charles . 1991 . The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 . New York, NY . Oxford University Press . 978-0195-03889-7.
• Book: Schlesinger, Arthur M. . 1953 . 1945 . The Age of Jackson . Boston, MA . Little, Brown and Company . 9780316773430 . Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.. Winner of Pulitzer Prize for History. History of ideas of the era.
• Taylor, George Rogers, ed. Jackson Versus Biddle: The Struggle over the Second Bank of the United States (1949), excerpts from primary and secondary sources.

Petticoat affair

• Book: Kennedy . Kathleen . Ullman . Sharon Rena . 2003 . Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past . Columbus, OH . Ohio State University Press . 978-0-8142-0927-1.
• Book: Marszalek, John F. . 2000 . 1997 . The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House . Baton Rouge, LA . LSU Press . 0-8071-2634-9 . John F. Marszalek.

Presidential campaigns

• Book: Boller, Paul F. Jr. . 2004 . Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush . Oxford University Press . New York . 0-19516-716-3.
• Book: Cheathem, Mark R. . 2018 . The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson . Baltimore, Md. . Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421425993.
• Book: Gammon, Samuel Rhea . 1922 . 2007 . The Presidential Campaign of 1832 . Hamburg, Michigan . Native American Books Distributor . 978-0-4030-0603-8.
• Parsons, Lynn H. The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 (2009) excerpt and text search
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 1963 . The Election of Andrew Jackson . registration . Baltimore, MD . Lippincott.

Other specialized studies

• Book: Adams, Henry . 1986 . 1891 . History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison . New York . Library Classics of the United States . 0-9404-5035-6 . Henry Adams.
• Book: Baptist, Edward E. . 2014 . The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism . New York, NY . Basic Books . 978-04650-0296-2 . Edward E. Baptist.
• Book: Bates, Christopher G. . 2015 . The Early Republic and Antebellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History . New York . Routledge . 9781317457404.
• Bugg Jr. James L. ed. Jacksonian Democracy: Myth or Reality? (1952), excerpts from scholars.
• Book: Burstein, Andrew . 2003 . The Passions of Andrew Jackson . New York . Vintage Publishing . 0-3757-1404-9.
• Book: Byrne . James Patrick . Coleman . Philip . King . Jason Francis . Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia . 2008 . Santa Barbara, CA . ABC-CLIO. 9781851096145 .
• Book: Cheathem, Mark R.. The Shape of Democracy: Historical Interpretations of Jacksonian Democracy, in The Age of Andrew Jackson, Brian D. McKnight and James S. Humphreys, eds.. 2011.
• Cheathem, Mark R., and Terry Corps, eds. Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
• Book: Durham, Walter T. . 1990 . Before Tennessee: the Southwest Territory, 1790-1796: a narrative history of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio . Piney Flats, TN . Rocky Mount Historical Association . 0-9678-3071-0.
• Eaton . Clement . 10.2307/1897915 . 0161-391X . 29 . 3 . 351–370 . Mob Violence in the Old South . The Mississippi Valley Historical Review . 1942 . 1897915.
• Book: Ellis, Richard E. . Woodward . C. Vann . Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct . Delacorte Press . New York . 61–68 . 1974 . 0-440-05923-2.
• Book: Gannett, Henry . 1905 . The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States . 167 . Washington, D.C. . Myron E. Sharpe, Inc. . mdy-all.
• Book: Gullan, Harold I. . 2004 . First fathers: the men who inspired our Presidents . registration . Hoboken, NJ . John Wiley & Sons . 0-471-46597-6.
• Hays . Joel Stanford . 2013 . Twisting the Law: Legal Inconsistencies in Andrew Jackson's Treatment of Native-American Sovereignty and State Sovereignty . Journal of Southern Legal History . 21 . 157 .
• Book: Hofstadter, Richard . 1989 . 1948 . The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It . registration . New York, NY . Vintage Books . 978-0679-72315-8 . Richard Hofstadter. Chapter on Jackson.
• Book: Howe, Daniel Walker . What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 . registration . 2007 . Oxford, NY . Oxford University Press. 9780199743797 .
• Book: Jackson, Elmer Martin . 1985 . Keeping the lamp of remembrance lighted: a genealogical narrative with pictures and charts about the Jacksons and their allied families . Hagerstown, MD . Hagerstown Bookbinding and Printing Co..
• Book: Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877 . 10 . Lansford . Tom . Woods . Thomas E. . 2008 . Marshall Cavendish . New York . 1046 . 978-0-7614-7758-7.
• Latner Richard B. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: White House Politics, 1820–1837 (1979), standard survey.
• Book: Leeden, Michael A. . 2001 . Tocqueville on American Character . Macmillan . New York . 0-3122-5231-5 . January 15, 2014.
• Book: Lewis, J. D. . 2012 . NC Patriots 1775–1783: Their Own Words . 1 – The NC Continental Line . 193–94 . Little River, SC . J.D. Lewis . 978-1-4675-4808-3.
• Book: Martin, François-Xavier . 1829 . The History of Louisiana, from the Earliest Period . 2 . A.T. Penniman & Co. . New Orleans, LA.
• Morgan, William G. “Henry Clay’s Biographers and the ‘Corrupt Bargain’ Charge.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 66#3 (1968), pp. 242–58. online
• Morgan, William G. “John Quincy Adams Versus Andrew Jackson: Their Biographers And The ‘Corrupt Bargain’ Charge.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 26#1 (1967), pp. 43–58. online
• Book: Nevins . Allan . Commanger . Henry Steele . Morris . Jeffrey . 1992 . 1941 . A Pocket History of the United States . New York . Simon & Schuster. 9780671790233 .
• Book: Nowlan, Robert A. . 2012 . The American Presidents, Washington to Tyler . Jefferson, NC . McFarland Publishing . 978-0786463367.
• Book: Ogg, Frederic Austin . 1919 . The Reign of Andrew Jackson; Vol. 20, Chronicles of America Series . New Haven, CT . Yale University Press .
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 1988 . The Legacy of Andrew Jackson: Essays on Democracy, Indian Removal, and Slavery . Baton Rouge, Louisiana . Louisiana State University Press . 0-8071-1642-4.
• Book: Rorabaugh . W.J. . Critchlow . Donald T. . Baker . Paula C. . 2004 . America's Promise: A Concise History of the United States . Lanham, MD . Rowman & Littlefield . 0-7425-1189-8 .
• Book: Rutland, Robert Allen . 1995 . The Democrats: From Jefferson to Clinton . registration . Columbia, MO . University of Missouri Press . 0-8262-1034-1.
• Book: Sabato . Larry . O'Connor . Karen . 2002 . American Government: Continuity and Change . registration . New York . Pearson Longman . 978-0-321-31711-7.
• Schama, Simon. The American Future: A History (2008).
• Book: Schwartz, Bernard . A History of the Supreme Court . registration . 1993 . Oxford University Press . New York . 978-0195-09387-2.
• Syrett, Harold C. Andrew Jackson: His Contribution to the American Tradition (1953). on Jacksonian democracy
• Book: Warshauer, Matthew . 2006 . Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law . University of Tennessee Press . Knoxville, TN . 978-1572-33624-7.
• Book: Wilentz, Sean . 2006 . The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln . New York . W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. . 0-393-05820-4.
• Book: Zinn, Howard . 1980 . 7: As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs . A People's History of the United States . http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnasl7.html . Abingdon-on-Thames, UK . Routledge Taylor and Francis Group . Howard Zinn.

Encyclopedias

• Book: Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 . Heidler, David Stephen . Jeanne T. Heidler . 1997 . Naval Institute Press . Annapolis, Maryland . 1-59114-362-4.
• Book: Olson, James Stuart . Robert L. Shadle . Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in America . Greenwood Press . Westport, CT . 2002 . 0-313-30830-6 .
• Book: Paletta . Lu Ann . Worth . Fred L. . The World Almanac of Presidential Facts . New York, NY . World Almanac Books . 1988 . 0-345-34888-5 . registration .

Historiography

• Book: Adams . Sean Patrick . 2013 . A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson . Hoboken, New Jersey . John Wiley & Sons.
• Cheathem . Mark R. . 2011 . Andrew Jackson, Slavery, and Historians . History Compass . 9 . 4 . 326–338 . 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00763.x .
• Book: Curtis, James C. . 1976 . Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication . registration . Boston. Little, Brown and Co..
• Mabry, Donald J., Short Book Bibliography on Andrew Jackson, Historical Text Archive.
• Remini, Robert V. and Robert O. Rupp. Andrew Jackson: A Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991)
• Sellers . Charles Grier Jr. . Andrew Jackson versus the Historians . 1886599 . Mississippi Valley Historical Review . 1958 . 44 . 4 . 615–634 . Charles Grier Sellers. 10.2307/1886599 .
• Van Sledright, Bruce, and Peter Afflerbach. "Reconstructing Andrew Jackson: Prospective elementary teachers' readings of revisionist history texts". Theory & Research in Social Education 28#3 (2000): 411-444.
• Ward, John William. Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age (1955) Oxford University Press how writers saw him.

Papers and correspondence

• Book: Jackson, Andrew . Bassett . John Spencer . Jameson . J. Franklin . 1926–1935 . The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson . 5 . Washington, D.C. . Carnegie Institute of Washington . 970877018. 7 volumes total.
• Book: Jackson, Andrew . Smith . Sam B. . Owlsey . Harriet Chappell . Feller . Dan . Moser . Harold D. . 1926–1935 . The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson . Knoxville, TN . University of Tennessee Press . 5029597. (9 vols. 1980 to date)
• Book: Richardson . James D. . 1897 . Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents . Washington, D.C. . Bureau of National Literature and Art . 980191506. Reprints his major messages and reports.
• Library of Congress. "Andrew Jackson Papers", a digital archive that provides direct access to the manuscript images of many of the Jackson documents. online