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Bibliography of Andrew Jackson

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

Key biographies

Biographies, 20th and 21st centuries

  • ; 344 pages; coverage to age 21
  • Abridgment of Remini's 3-volume biography.
  • Remini, Robert V. "Andrew Jackson", American National Biography (2000).

Biographies, 19th century

Militia and military

Resources for Jackson and the Tennessee militia, U.S. Army, War of 1812, Creek War, First Seminole War, etc.

  • - future national politicians who served in Jackson's militia during 1812/Creek war
  • Ratner, Lorman A. Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture (1997).
  • - Natchez expedition

Tribal treaties, Indian wars, Indigenous policy

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  • - background of Cherokee removal

Bank War

  • - excerpts from primary and secondary sources

Presidential cabinet

Presidential campaigns

  • Parsons, Lynn H. The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 (2009) excerpt and text search

Slavery, abolitionism, racism

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Land speculation, land policy, territorial expansion

  • - "the land office faction"
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  • - fight over land office appointment

Tennessee state politics

Kinship networks, personal life, biographical dictionaries

Note: There are extensive family tree charts in volume one of The Papers, volume one of Remini, in Rogin (1976), and in Cheathem (October 2011). Part IV of the Legal Papers of A. Jackson also includes capsule biographies of many early-career affiliates.

  • - bios of associates
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Law, judges, courts

Other specialized studies

  • Bugg Jr. James L. ed. Jacksonian Democracy: Myth or Reality? (1952), excerpts from scholars.
  • Cheathem, Mark R., and Terry Corps, eds. Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
  • Chapter on Jackson.
  • Latner Richard B. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: White House Politics, 1820–1837 (1979), standard survey.
  • Schama, Simon. The American Future: A History (2008).
  • Winner of Pulitzer Prize for History. History of ideas of the era.
  • - on Jacksonian democracy and/or political opportunism

Encyclopedias

Historiography, bibliography, literature reviews

Papers and correspondence

  • 7 volumes total. - HathiTrust - Internet Archive - Google Books
  • Vol 1. Up to April 30, 1814
  • Vol 2. May 1, 1814 – December 31, 1819
  • Vol 3. 1820–1828
  • Vol 4. 1829–1832
  • Vol 5. 1833–1838
  • Vol 6. 1839–1845
  • Vol 7. General index, by David Maydole Matteson
  • 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
  • – Key to the organization system for microfilm reels/scans of the primary source documents

Theses

  • Drew, Bettina. "Master Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal and the Culture of Slavery." Yale University, 2001.
  • Smith, Trevor A. "Pioneers, Patriots, and Politicians: The Tennessee Militia System, 1772–1857." University of Tennessee, 2003.
  • - intellectual rationale for Indian removal, et al.

See also

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