Bibliography of James Monroe

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[edit]

* Ammon, Harry (1971). James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070015821. 706 pp. standard scholarly biography
* Ammon, Harry. "James Monroe" in Henry F. Graff ed., The Presidents: A Reference History (3rd ed. 2002) online
* Bemis, Samuel Flagg (1949). John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. A. A. Knopf.
* 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
* Dangerfield, George (1965). The Awakening of American Nationalism: 1815–1828. Harper and Rowe. ISBN 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.
* Hart, Gary (2005). James Monroe. Henry Holy and Co. ISBN 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.
* Howe, Daniel Walker (2007). What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 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
* Johnson, Allen (1915). Union and Democracy. 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.
* Pulliam, David Loyd (1901). The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the present time. John T. West, Richmond. ISBN 978-1-2879-2059-5.
* 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 Archived 2011-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
* 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. ISSN 0026-2927.
* Scherr, Arthur. "Governor James Monroe and the Southampton Slave Resistance of 1799." Historian 1999 61(3): 557–578. ISSN 0018-2370 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.
* Unger, Harlow G. (2009). The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness. Da Capo Press. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved March 7, 2015. a new biography.
* Weeks, William Earl (1992). John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press. ISBN 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 (Fall 2004). "Jeffersonian Democracy and the Origins of Political Antislavery in the United States: The Missouri Crisis Revisited". The Journal of the Historical Society. IV (3).
* Wood, Gordon S. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)

## Primary sources[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

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James Monroe

* 5th President of the United States (1817–1825)
* 5th United States Secretary of State (1811–1817)
* United States Secretary of War (1814–1815)
* 12th and 16th Governor of Virginia (1799–1802, 1811)
* U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1803–1808)
* U.S. Minister to France (1794–1796)
* U.S. Senator from Virginia (1790–1794)
* Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation (1783–1786)

Founding events|

* Virginia Ratifying Convention
* Founding Fathers

Presidency|

* First inauguration
* Second inauguration
* Florida Treaty
* Treaty of 1818
* Panic of 1819
* Era of Good Feelings
* Missouri Compromise
* Seminole Wars
* Monroe Doctrine
* Tariff of 1824
* State of the Union Address, 1824
* Cabinet
* Federal judiciary appointments

Other noted
accomplisments|

* Negotiated the Louisiana Purchase
* Monroe–Pinkney Treaty
* War of 1812

Life|

* Early life and career
* Birthplace and boyhood home
* Revolutionary War service
* Battle of Trenton
* Monroe Hill home and office
* James Monroe Law Office, Museum, and Memorial Library
* Highland
* Oak Hill
* James Monroe Tomb

Elections|

* 1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election
* 1790 and 1791 U.S. Senate elections
* 1792
* Governor of Virginia election, 1799
* U.S. presidential election, 1808
* 1816
* 1820

Legacy and
popular culture|

* Bibliography
* Memorials
* Monrovia, capital of Liberia
* Fort Monroe
* Monroe, Michigan
* Monroe, New York
* Monroe, Georgia
* Monroe County, Kentucky
* Monroe County, New York
* Monroe Township, (Northern) New Jersey
* Monroe Township, (Southern) New Jersey
* Mount Monroe
* Monroe Park
* The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776 (painting)
* Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings)
* Monroe Hill (2015 film)
* U.S. postage stamps
* Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar
* USS President Monroe
* USS James Monroe

Related|

* Monroe on slavery
* American Colonization Society
* Virginia dynasty
* Limestone plantation

Family|

* Elizabeth Kortright (wife)
* George Hay (son-in-law)
* Samuel L. Gouverneur (son-in-law)

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