Andrew Jackson by James Tooley Jr., 1840
The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to Andrew Jackson .
Andrew Jackson, I am given to understand, was a patriot and a traitor. He was one of the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. A writer brilliant, elegant, eloquent, without being able to compose a correct sentence, or spell words of four syllables. The first of statesmen, he never devised, he never framed a measure. He was the most candid of men, and was capable of the profoundest dissimulation. A most law-defying, law-obeying citizen. A stickler for discipline, he never hesitated to disobey a superior. A democratic autocrat. An urbane savage. An atrocious saint.
Bassett, John Spencer (1911). The Life of Andrew Jackson . New York: Doubleday Page & Company. vol 1 online ; vol 2 online
Booraem, Hendrik (2001). Young Hickory: The Making of Andrew Jackson . Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 0-8783-3263-4 . ; 344 pages; coverage to age 21
Brands, H. W. (2005). Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times . New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 1-4000-3072-2 .
Brown, David S. (2022). The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-1-9821-9109-2 .
Cheathem, Mark R. (2013). Andrew Jackson, Southerner . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0807-15098-6 .
Curtis, James C. (1976). Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication . Boston: Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 978-0-673-39334-0 .
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.
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.
James, Marquis (1933). Andrew Jackson: The Boarder Captain . New York: Literary Guild.
James, Marquis (1937). Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President . New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
Kendall, Amos (1843). Life of Andrew Jackson: Private, Military, and Civil . New York: Harper & Brothers. ISBN 9780795023637 . OCLC 6738380 .
Latner, Richard B. (2002). "Andrew Jackson" . In Graff, Henry (ed.). The Presidents: A Reference History (3 ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-31226-2 . OCLC 49029341 .
Meacham, Jon (2008). American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House . New York: Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8129-7346-4 .
Parton, James (1860a). Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 1 . New York: Mason Brothers. OCLC 3897681 .
Parton, James (1860b). Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 2 . New York: Mason Brothers. OCLC 3897681 .
Parton, James (1860c). Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 3 . New York: Mason Brothers. OCLC 3897681 .
Remini, Robert (1966). Andrew Jackson . New York: HarperCollins.
Remini, Robert V. (1977). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821 . New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-8018-5912-3 .
Remini, Robert V. (1981). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822–1832 . New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8018-5913-7 .
Remini, Robert V. (1984). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 . New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-8018-5913-1 .
Remini, Robert V. (1988). The Life of Andrew Jackson . New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-0618-0788-5 . Abridgment of Remini's 3-volume biography.
Remini, Robert V. "Andrew Jackson", American National Biography (2000).
Snelling, William Joseph (1831). A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson . Boston: Stimpson & Clapp. p. 164 . OCLC 6692507 .
Sumner, William Graham (1972) [1882]. American Statesman: Andrew Jackson . New York, NY: AMS Press Inc. ISBN 0-404-50867-7 .
Wilentz, Sean (2005). Andrew Jackson . New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-6925-9 .
McLemore, Laura Lyons, ed. (2016). The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory . Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press. ISBN 978-0807-16467-9 .
Ratner, Lorman A. Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture (1997).
Remini, Robert V. (2001) [1999]. The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory . London, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1101-19997-8 .
Remini, Robert V. (2001). Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars . London, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-7861-8568-6 .
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.
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. doi :10.2307/20068726 . JSTOR 20068726 .
Cave, Alfred A. (2003). "Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830" . Historian . 65 (6): 1330–1353. doi :10.1111/j.0018-2370.2003.00055.x . S2CID 144157296 .
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. ISBN 978-0-8078-3151-9 .
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. ISBN 0-8203-3417-0 .
Inskeep, Steve (2015). Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab . London, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1101-61777-9 .
Jahoda, Gloria (1975). The Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813–1855 . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0-03-014871-5 .
Keeler, Kyle (2024). "Wikipedia's Indian problem: settler colonial erasure of native American knowledge and history on the world's largest encyclopedia" . Settler Colonial Studies : 1–22. doi :10.1080/2201473X.2024.2358697 . ISSN 2201-473X .
Mann, Barbara Alice (2009). The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion . ABC-CLIO. p. 20. ISBN 9780313353383 .
Mann, Barbara Alice (2019). President by Massacre: Indian-Killing for Political Gain . ABC-CLIO.
Prucha, Francis Paul (1969). "Andrew Jackson's Indian policy: a reassessment". Journal of American History . 56 (3): 527–539. doi :10.2307/1904204 . JSTOR 1904204 .
Bogart, Ernest Ludlow (1907). The Economic History of the United States . London, UK: Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 219 .
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. ISBN 9780700627448 . OCLC 1066117752 .
Hammond, Bray (1957). Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691005532 . OCLC 890993 .
Kahan, Paul (2016). The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance . Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing LLC. ISBN 978-1594-16234-3 .
McFaul, John M. (1972). The Politics of Jacksonian Finance . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801407383 . OCLC 409631 .
Remini, Robert V. (1967). Andrew Jackson and the Bank War: A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power . New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393-09757-3 .
Sellers, Charles (1991). The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 . New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195-03889-7 .
Schlesinger, Arthur M. (1953) [1945]. The Age of Jackson . Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316773430 . 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.
Presidential campaigns [ edit ]
Boller, Paul F. Jr. (2004). Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19516-716-3 .
Cheathem, Mark R. (2018). The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson . Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421425993 .
Gammon, Samuel Rhea (2007) [1922]. The Presidential Campaign of 1832 . Hamburg, Michigan: Native American Books Distributor. ISBN 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
Remini, Robert V. (1963). The Election of Andrew Jackson . Baltimore, MD: Lippincott.
Stephens, Rachel (2018). Selling Andrew Jackson: Ralph E.W. Earl and the politics of portraiture . Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-867-8 .
Cheathem, Mark R. (2011). "Andrew Jackson, Slavery, and Historians" (PDF) . History Compass . 9 (4): 326–338. doi :10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00763.x .
——— (October 2011). Slavery, Kinship, and Andrew Jackson's Presidential Campaign of 1828 (PDF) . Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting. jacksonianamerica.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-08-22. Retrieved 2024-08-22 .
——— (October 2012). The Evolution of the Enslaved Community at Andrew Jackson's Plantations, 1790s–1840s (PDF) . 2012 BrANCH (Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians). jacksonianamerica.com.
Opal, J. M. (October 2013). "General Jackson's Passports: Natural Rights and Sovereign Citizens in the Political Thought of Andrew Jackson, 1780s–1820s" . Studies in American Political Development . 27 (2): 69–85. doi :10.1017/S0898588X13000060 . ISSN 0898-588X .
Remini, Robert V. (Summer 1991). "Andrew Jackson's Adventures on the Natchez Trace". Southern Quarterly . 29 (4). Hattiesburg, Mississippi: University of Southern Mississippi: 35–42. ISSN 0038-4496 . OCLC 1644229 .
——— (Spring 1995). "Andrew Jackson Takes an Oath of Allegiance to Spain" . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 54 (1). Loyalty oath document surfaced by Dr. G. Douglas Inglis of Seville, Spain. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee Historical Society: 2–15. ISSN 0040-3261 . JSTOR 42628387 . OCLC 551288487 .
Serme, Jean-Marc (2003). "Stormy Weather at Andrew Jackson's Halcyon Plantation, in Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1838–1845" . Revue française d'études américaines (98): 32–47. ISSN 0397-7870 . JSTOR 20874927 .
Snow, Whitney Adrienne (2008). "Slave Owner, Slave Trader, Gentleman: Slavery and the Rise of Andrew Jackson". Journal of East Tennessee History . 80 . Knoxville, Tennessee: East Tennessee Historical Society: 47–59. ISSN 1058-2126 . OCLC 23044540 .
Warshauer, Matthew (2006). "Andrew Jackson: Chivalric Slave Master" . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 65 (3): 203–229. ISSN 0040-3261 . JSTOR 42627964 .
Deppisch, Ludwig M. (2021), Women in the Life of Andrew Jackson , McFarland, Inc.
DeWitt, John H. (1931). "ANDREW JACKSON AND HIS WARD, ANDREW JACKSON HUTCHINGS: A History Hitherto Unpublished" . Tennessee Historical Magazine . 1 (2): 83–106. ISSN 2333-9012 . JSTOR 42638062 .
Galloway, Linda Bennett (1950). "Andrew Jackson, Junior" . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 9 (3): 195–216. ISSN 0040-3261 . JSTOR 42621045 .
Gismondi, Melissa (2017-06-12). Rachel Jackson and the Search for Zion, 1760s–1830s (PhD, History thesis). Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia. doi :10.18130/v3q364 .
Meredith, Rachel. (May 2013). "There Was Somebody Always Dying and Leaving Jackson as Guardian": The Wards of Andrew Jackson (M.A. History thesis). Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Middle Tennessee State University. ProQuest 1538368 .
Owsley, Harriet Chappell (1977). "The Marriages of Rachel Donelson" . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 36 (4). Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee Historical Society: 479–492. ISSN 0040-3261 . JSTOR 42625784 . OCLC 551288487 .
Owsley, Harriet Chappell (1982). "Andrew Jackson and His Ward, Andrew Jackson Donelson" . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 41 (2): 124–139. ISSN 0040-3261 . JSTOR 42626276 .
Peterson, Dawn (2017). "5. Adoption in Andrew Jackson's Empire". Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion . Harvard University Press. doi :10.4159/9780674978720 . ISBN 978-0-674-97872-0 .
Snyder, Christina (2017). "Andrew Jackson's Indian Son: Native Captives and American Empire". In Garrison, Tim Alan; O'Brien, Greg (eds.). The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 84–106. doi :10.2307/j.ctt1q1xq7h.9 . ISBN 978-0-8032-9690-9 . JSTOR j.ctt1q1xq7h.9 .
Toplovich, Ann (2005). "Marriage, Mayhem, and Presidential Politics: The Robards–Jackson Backcountry Scandal" (PDF) . Ohio Valley History . 5 (4). Cincinnati, Ohio & Louisville, Kentucky: Cincinnati Museum Center & Filson Historical Society: 3–22. ISSN 2377-0600 . OCLC 1332991166 . Project MUSE 572973 .
Other specialized studies [ edit ]
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. ISBN 0-9404-5035-6 .
Baptist, Edward E. (2014). The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism . New York, NY: Basic Books. ISBN 978-04650-0296-2 .
Bates, Christopher G. (2015). The Early Republic and Antebellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History . New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317457404 .
Bugg Jr. James L. ed. Jacksonian Democracy: Myth or Reality? (1952), excerpts from scholars.
Burstein, Andrew (2003). The Passions of Andrew Jackson . New York: Vintage Publishing. ISBN 0-3757-1404-9 .
Byrne, James Patrick; Coleman, Philip; King, Jason Francis (2008). Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia . Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851096145 .
Cheathem, Mark R. (2011). The Shape of Democracy: Historical Interpretations of Jacksonian Democracy, in The Age of Andrew Jackson, Brian D. McKnight and James S. Humphreys, eds .
Cheathem, Mark R., and Terry Corps, eds. Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
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. ISBN 0-9678-3071-0 .
Eaton, Clement (1942). "Mob Violence in the Old South". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review . 29 (3): 351–370. doi :10.2307/1897915 . ISSN 0161-391X . JSTOR 1897915 .
Ellis, Richard E. (1974). Woodward, C. Vann (ed.). Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct . New York: Delacorte Press. pp. 61–68. ISBN 0-440-05923-2 .
Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States . Washington, D.C.: Myron E. Sharpe, Inc. p. 167 .
Gullan, Harold I. (2004). First fathers: the men who inspired our Presidents . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 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.
Hofstadter, Richard (1989) [1948]. The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It . New York, NY: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0679-72315-8 . Chapter on Jackson.
Howe, Daniel Walker (2007). What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 . Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199743797 .
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.
Lansford, Tom; Woods, Thomas E., eds. (2008). Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877 . Vol. 10. New York: Marshall Cavendish. p. 1046. ISBN 978-0-7614-7758-7 .
Latner Richard B. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: White House Politics, 1820–1837 (1979), standard survey.
Leeden, Michael A. (2001). Tocqueville on American Character . New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-3122-5231-5 . Retrieved January 15, 2014 .
Lewis, J. D. (2012). NC Patriots 1775–1783: Their Own Words . Vol. 1 – The NC Continental Line. Little River, SC: J.D. Lewis. pp. 193–94. ISBN 978-1-4675-4808-3 .
Martin, François-Xavier (1829). The History of Louisiana, from the Earliest Period . Vol. 2. New Orleans, LA: A.T. Penniman & Co.
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
Nevins, Allan; Commanger, Henry Steele; Morris, Jeffrey (1992) [1941]. A Pocket History of the United States . New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780671790233 .
Nowlan, Robert A. (2012). The American Presidents, Washington to Tyler . Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing. ISBN 978-0786463367 .
Ogg, Frederic Austin (1919). The Reign of Andrew Jackson; Vol. 20, Chronicles of America Series . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Opal, J. M. (2017). Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-975170-9 . LCCN 2016044301 . OCLC 960030315 .
Remini, Robert V. (1988). The Legacy of Andrew Jackson: Essays on Democracy, Indian Removal, and Slavery . Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1642-4 .
Rorabaugh, W.J.; Critchlow, Donald T.; Baker, Paula C. (2004). America's Promise: A Concise History of the United States . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-1189-8 . [permanent dead link ]
Rutland, Robert Allen (1995). The Democrats: From Jefferson to Clinton . Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1034-1 .
Sabato, Larry; O'Connor, Karen (2002). American Government: Continuity and Change . New York: Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-0-321-31711-7 .
Schama, Simon . The American Future: A History (2008).
Schwartz, Bernard (1993). A History of the Supreme Court . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195-09387-2 .
Syrett, Harold C. Andrew Jackson: His Contribution to the American Tradition (1953). on Jacksonian democracy
Warshauer, Matthew (2006). Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law . Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-1572-33624-7 .
Wilentz, Sean (2006). The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-05820-4 .
Zinn, Howard (1980). "7: As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs" . A People's History of the United States . Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
Adams, Sean Patrick, ed. (2013). A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson . Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
Curtis, James C. (1976). Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication . 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. (1958). "Andrew Jackson versus the Historians". Mississippi Valley Historical Review . 44 (4): 615–634. doi :10.2307/1886599 . JSTOR 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 [ edit ]
Jackson, Andrew (1926–1935). Bassett, John Spencer; Jameson, J. Franklin (eds.). The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson . Vol. 5. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington. OCLC 970877018 . 7 volumes total.
Jackson, Andrew (1926–1935). Smith, Sam B.; Owlsey, Harriet Chappell; Feller, Dan; Moser, Harold D. (eds.). The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson . Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. OCLC 5029597 . (9 vols. 1980 to date)
Richardson, James D., ed. (1897). Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents . Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art. OCLC 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