Bibliography of Martin Van Buren

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Photograph by Mathew Brady
President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1837 March 4, 1841
Spouse
(m. 1807;died 1819)
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Portrait of Martin Van Buren
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Portrait of Martin Van Buren
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This is a select bibliography of Post World War II books and journal articles about Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), an American statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841.

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He was a founder of the Democratic Party, and served in multiple offices from New York state, including governor, United States Senator, state attorney general, and state senator. Nationally he served under President Andrew Jackson as Minister to Great Britain, United States Secretary of State, and was elected as Vice President of the United States for Jackson's second term. He was elected as the 8th president of the United States in 1836, but lost his 1840 reelection bid to Whig Party nominee William Henry Harrison. Later in life, Van Buren emerged as an elder statesman and an important anti-slavery leader, who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the 1848 presidential election.

Books are published by scholarly presses or are reviewed favorably in academic journals. There have been relatively few full-length biographies written about Van Buren; however, works about events closely related to his presidency contain significant information about Van Buren. This bibliography includes a selection of Van Buren's papers and messages along with archival collections available online but does not include newspaper articles or pamphlets. The Further Reading section contains books with additional bibliographies on the life and career of Van Buren. This bibliography uses APA style citations.

Biographies

Books with content about Van Buren

Journal articles

Books, papers, and speeches by Martin Van Buren

Collected Papers and Speeches

Individual Papers and Speeches

Books by Van Buren

Further reading

See also

Notes

  1. Edited by Abraham Van Buren and John Van Buren. Published in 1867 by Hurd and Houghton, New York. Text available from Project Guttenberg.
  2. Edited by John Clement Fitzpatrick. Published in 1919 in the Fourteenth Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, by the American Historical Association, Washington D.C.
  3. Extensive 25pp. Bibliography.

References

  1. "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  2. Feller, Daniel; Cole, Donald B. (1985). "Martin van Buren and the American Political System". Journal of the Early Republic. 5: 133. doi:10.2307/3122527. JSTOR   3122527.
  3. Howe, Daniel Walker (1985). "Reviewed work: Martin van Buren and the American Political System, Donald B. Cole". Journal of American Studies. 19 (3): 459–460. doi:10.1017/S0021875800015693. JSTOR   27554683. S2CID   144634519.
  4. Crouthamel, James L. (1971). "Reviewed work: The Fox at Bay. Martin van Buren and the Presidency, 1837–1841, James C. Curtis". New York History. 52 (2): 231–233. JSTOR   23164927.
  5. Mering, John Vollmer; Curtis, James C. (1971). "The Fox at Bay: Martin van Buren and the Presidency, 1837–1841". The Journal of Southern History. 37 (2): 296. doi:10.2307/2205838. JSTOR   2205838.
  6. Hershkowitz, Leo (1999). "Reviewed work: Martin van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology, Jerome Mushkat, Joseph G. Rayback". New York History. 80 (2): 220–223. JSTOR   23182491.
  7. Cole, Donald B.; Mushkat, Jerome; Rayback, Joseph G. (1998). "Martin van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology". Journal of the Early Republic. 18 (2): 332. doi:10.2307/3124907. JSTOR   3124907.
  8. Sellers, Charles; Niven, John (1983). "Martin van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics". Journal of the Early Republic. 3 (4): 505. doi:10.2307/3122901. JSTOR   3122901.
  9. Curtis, James C.; Niven, John (1984). "Martin van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics". The Journal of American History. 70 (4): 886. doi:10.2307/1899778. JSTOR   1899778.
  10. McCormick, Richard P.; Remini, Robert V. (1959). "Martin van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party". The New England Quarterly. 32 (3): 429. doi:10.2307/362843. JSTOR   362843.
  11. Nichols, Roy F.; Remini, Robert V. (1959). "Martin van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party". The Journal of Southern History. 25 (3): 397. doi:10.2307/2954778. JSTOR   2954778.
  12. Skeen, C. Edward (2004). "Reviewed work: Martin van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics, Joel H. Silbey". The Historian. 66 (3): 598–599. JSTOR   24453093.
  13. Richards, Leonard L.; Silbey, Joel H. (2004). "Martin van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics". The Journal of Southern History. 70: 142. doi:10.2307/27648333. JSTOR   27648333.
  14. Gunderson, Robert G.; Wilson, Major L. (1984). "The Presidency of Martin van Buren". The Journal of American History. 71 (3): 635. doi:10.2307/1887514. JSTOR   1887514.
  15. Simpson, Brooks D.; Wilson, Major L. (1984). "The Presidency of Martin van Buren". Journal of the Early Republic. 4 (4): 468. doi:10.2307/3123134. JSTOR   3123134.
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  17. Abbott, Richard H. (1975). "Frederick J. Blue, the Free Soilers: Third Party Politics, 1848–54". The Journal of Negro History. 60 (2): 337–339. doi:10.2307/2717381. JSTOR   2717381.
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  21. Kutolowski, Kathleen Smith (2003). "Reviewed work: Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860, Martin Bruegel". New York History. 84 (1): 107–109. JSTOR   23183480.
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  47. Mering, John Vollmer; Temin, Peter (1970). "The Jacksonian Economy". The Journal of Southern History. 36: 103. doi:10.2307/2206621. JSTOR   2206621.
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