Bibliography of James Monroe explained

The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States. for a comprehensive older guide see Harry Ammon, James Monroe: A Bibliography (Greenwood, 1990).

Secondary sources

• Book: Ammon, Harry. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. registration. McGraw-Hill. 1971. 9780070015821 . 706 pp. standard scholarly biography
• Ammon, Harry. "James Monroe" in Henry F. Graff ed., The Presidents: A Reference History (3rd ed. 2002) online
• Book: Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. registration. A. A. Knopf. 1949.
• Cresson, William P. James Monroe (1946). 577 pp. good scholarly biography
• Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Presidency of James Monroe. 1996. 246 pp. standard scholarly survey
• Dangerfield, George. Era of Good Feelings (1953) excerpt and text search
• Book: Dangerfield, George. The Awakening of American Nationalism: 1815–1828. registration. Harper and Rowe. 1965. 0881338230.
• Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism (1995). most advanced analysis of the politics of the 1790s. online edition
• Heidler, David S. "The Politics of National Aggression: Congress and the First Seminole War," Journal of the Early Republic 1993 13(4): 501–530. in JSTOR
• Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 1754–1829 (2005), 1600 pp.
• Book: Hart, Gary. James Monroe. 2005. Henry Holy and Co.. 978-0805069600. superficial, short, popular biography
• Haworth, Peter Daniel. "James Madison and James Monroe Historiography: A Tale of Two Divergent Bodies of Scholarship." in A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe (2013): 521-539.
• Book: Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. registration. Oxford Univ. Press. 2007. 978-0-19-507894-7 . Pulitzer Prize; a sweeping interpretation of the era
• Holmes, David L. The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, May 2006, online version
• Book: Johnson, Allen. Union and Democracy. 1915. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Kranish, Michael. "At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle", The Boston Globe, Boston, December 28, 2008.
• Leibiger, Stuart, ed. A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe (2012) excerpt; emphasis on historiography
• McGrath, Tim. James Monroe: A Life (Dutton, 2020) 736pp0
• McManus, Michael J. “President James Monroe’s Domestic Policies, 1817–1825: ‘To Advance the Best Interests of Our Union,’” in A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, ed. Stuart Leibiger (2013), 438–55.
• May, Ernest R. The Making of the Monroe Doctrine (1975), argues it was issued to influence the outcome of the presidential election of 1824.
• Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812–1823 (1964)
• Perkins, Dexter. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823–1826 (1927), the standard monograph about the origins of the doctrine.
• Poston, Brook. "'Bolder Attitude': James Monroe, the French Revolution, and the Making of the Monroe Doctrine." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 124.4 (2016): 282.
• Poston, Brook. James Monroe: A Republican Champion (University Press of Florida; 2019) excerpt
• Powell, Walter & Steinberg, Richard. The nonprofit sector: a research handbook, Yale, 2006, p. 40.
• Book: Pulliam, David Loyd . The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the present time . John T. West, Richmond . 1901 . 978-1-2879-2059-5 . pulliam.
• Renehan Edward J., Jr. The Monroe Doctrine: The Cornerstone of American Foreign Policy (2007)
• Scherr, Arthur. "James Monroe and John Adams: An Unlikely 'Friendship'". The Historian 67#3 (2005) pp 405+. online edition
• Skeen, Carl Edward. 1816: America Rising (1993) popular history
• Scherr, Arthur. "James Monroe on the Presidency and 'Foreign Influence: from the Virginia Ratifying Convention (1788) to Jefferson's Election (1801)." Mid-America 2002 84(1–3): 145–206. .
• Scherr, Arthur. "Governor James Monroe and the Southampton Slave Resistance of 1799." Historian 1999 61(3): 557–578. Fulltext online in SwetsWise and Ebsco.
• Styron, Arthur. The Last of the Cocked Hats: James Monroe and the Virginia Dynasty (1945). 480 pp. thorough, scholarly treatment of the man and his times.
• Book: Unger, Harlow G.. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness. Da Capo Press. 2009. March 7, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306132439/http://dacapopress.com/book/paperback/the-last-founding-father/9780306819186. March 6, 2016. dead. mdy-all. a new biography.
• Book: Weeks, William Earl . John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire . 1992 . Lexington, KY . University of Kentucky Press . 9780813117799 .
• White, Leonard D. The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801–1829 (1951), explains the operation and organization of federal administration
• Whitaker, Arthur P. The United States and the Independence of Latin America (1941)
• Wilmerding, Jr., Lucius, James Monroe: Public Claimant (1960) A study regarding Monroe's attempts to get reimbursement for personal expenses and losses from his years in public service after his presidency ended.
• Wilentz. Sean. Jeffersonian Democracy and the Origins of Political Antislavery in the United States: The Missouri Crisis Revisited. The Journal of the Historical Society. IV. 3. Fall 2004.
• Wood, Gordon S. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)

Primary sources

• Brown, Stuart Gerry, ed. The Autobiography of James Monroe (Syracuse Up, 2017); fragments of Monroe's unfinished autobiography,
• Preston, Daniel, ed. The Papers of James Monroe: Selected Correspondence and Papers (6 vol, 2006 to 2017), the major scholarly edition; in progress, with coverage to 1814.
• Monroe, James. The Political Writings of James Monroe. ed. by James P. Lucier, (2002). 863 pp.
• Writings of James Monroe, edited by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton, ed., 7 vols. (1898–1903) online edition at Google Books
• Richardson, James D. ed. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents (1897), reprints his major messages and reports.

For children

• Venezia, Mike. James Monroe: Fifth President, 1817-1825 (Getting to Know the US Presidents) (2005)