Bibliography of the Burr conspiracy

Aaron Burr letter to James Wilkinson, 1806 (Newberry Library object 16331)

Map of the United States as of 1800

This is a bibliography of the Burr conspiracy and subsequent trials, during which former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr was accused of and tried for treason. The Burr conspiracy took place during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807, as part of the early history of the United States.

• Abernethy, Thomas Perkins (1949). "Aaron Burr in Mississippi" . The Journal of Southern History. 15 (1): 9–21. doi:10.2307/2198070. ISSN   0022-4642. JSTOR   2198070.
• ——— (1954). The Burr Conspiracy. New York: Oxford University Press. LCCN   54006907. OCLC   710644.
• Adler, William D. (2021). Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860. American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   978-0-8122-5348-1.
• Berger, Raoul (1974). "Jefferson v. Marshall in the Burr Case". American Bar Association Journal. 60 (6): 702–706. ISSN   0002-7596. JSTOR   25726773.
• Bernsen, James Alan (2024). The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites, and the Texas Revolution of 1811. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN   978-1-64843-173-9.
• Beirne, Francis F. (1959). Shout Treason: The Trial of Aaron Burr. New York: Hastings House. LCCN   59013552.
• Bradley, James W., ed. (2002). Interim Appointment: W. C. C. Claiborne Letter Book, 1804–1805. The Louisiana Purchase Collection. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN   978-0-8071-2684-4. LCCN   2001004234. OCLC   47746051.
• Burton, Harold H. (1951). ""Justice the Guardian of Liberty": John Marshall at the Trial of Aaron Burr". American Bar Association Journal. 37 (10): 735–788. ISSN   0002-7596. JSTOR   25717800.
• Caldwell, Norman W. (1951). "Fort Massac: Since 1805". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 44 (1): 47–60. ISSN   0019-2287.
• Campbell, Richard (2015). ""Not Without His Enemies and Perhaps His Own Nemesis": Governor Joseph Alston and the War of 1812". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 116 (1): 29–54. ISSN   0038-3082.
• ——— (2019). ""Let Me Always Be Judged by My Own Acts, and I Shall Be Satisfied": Joseph Alston and Burr's Conspiracy". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 120 (2): 84–101. ISSN   0038-3082. JSTOR   45444939.
• Chidsey, Donald Barr (1967). The Great Conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the West. New York: Crown Publishers. LCCN   67027042.
• Cox, Isaac Joslin (1923). "The Louisiana-Texas Frontier During the Burr Conspiracy" . The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 10 (3): 274–284. doi:10.2307/1891602. ISSN   0161-391X. JSTOR   1891602.
• ——— (1929). "The Burr Conspiracy In Indiana". Indiana Magazine of History. 25 (4): 257–280. ISSN   0019-6673. JSTOR   27786407.
• ——— (1932). "Hispanic-American Phases of the "Burr Conspiracy"" . The Hispanic American Historical Review. 12 (2): 145–175. doi:10.2307/2506736. ISSN   0018-2168. JSTOR   2506736.
• Cresap Society (1941). Some Ohio pioneers: Martin–Cresap descendants who helped make a typical American community. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. McComb, Mississippi: Cresap Society.
• Dargo, George (1975). Jefferson's Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions. Studies in Legal History. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674331174. ISBN   978-0-674-33116-7. LCCN   74025036. OCLC   1287643.
• Daveiss, J. H. (1917). Cox, Isaac Joslin; Swineford, Helen A. (eds.). "'View of the President's Conduct Concerning the Conspiracy of 1806' by J. H. Daveiss (Reprint)". Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. XII (2–3). Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press: 53–154. LCCN   07029223. OCLC   1779735.
• Everton, Muriel (May 1, 2010). Libel in Mississippi, 1798–1832 (Ph.D. thesis). 949 – via University of Southern Mississippi.
• Faber, Eberhard L. (2015). Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America. Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1wf4cjw. ISBN   978-1-4008-7352-4. LCCN   2015013605. OCLC   925478630.
• Fichtelberg, Joseph (2006). "The Devil Designs a Career: Aaron Burr and the Shaping of Enterprise". Early American Literature. 41 (3): 495–513. ISSN   0012-8163. JSTOR   25057466.
• Hardison, Brian D.; Swick, Ray (2009). "A Recruit for Aaron Burr: Lewis Wetzel and the Burr "Conspiracy"". West Virginia History. 3 (2): 75–86. ISSN   0043-325X. JSTOR   43265123.
• Harris, Matthew L.; Buckley, Jay H., eds. (2012). Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN   978-0-8061-4243-2.
• Hay, Thomas Robson (May 1935). "Some Reflections on the Career of General James Wilkinson". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 21 (4): 471–494. doi:10.2307/1895456. JSTOR   1895456.
• ——— (1936). "Charles Williamson and the Burr Conspiracy". The Journal of Southern History. 2 (2): 175–210. doi:10.2307/2191694. ISSN   0022-4642. JSTOR   2191694.
• Henry, Lemuel; Gaines, Edmund P.; Perkins, Nicholas; Mertes, John; McCormack, Sam'l; Henry, John Jay; Slade, H. B.; Dearborn, H.; Hay, G. W. (1896). "The Capture of Aaron Burr". The American Historical Magazine. 1 (2): 140–153. ISSN   2333-8970.
• Henshaw, Lesley, ed. (1914). "Burr-Blennerhassett Documents". Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. IX (1–2). Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham: 7–68. LCCN   07029223. OCLC   1779735.
• Herschthal, Eric (2016). "Slaves, Spaniards, and Subversion in Early Louisiana: The Persistent Fears of Black Revolt and Spanish Collusion in Territorial Louisiana, 1803–1812" . Journal of the Early Republic. 36 (2): 283–311. doi:10.1353/jer.2016.0036. ISSN   0275-1275.
• Hickey, Donald R. (Winter 1976). "Andrew Jackson and the Army Haircut: Individual Rights vs. Military Discipline". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 35 (4): 365–375. ISSN   0040-3261.
• Hoffer, Peter Charles (2008). The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr. Landmark Law Cases & American Society. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. doi:10.1353/book.126943. ISBN   978-0-7006-1591-9. JSTOR   jj.19023935. LCCN   2008007385. OCLC   199459113.
• Hudson, Angela Pulley (2010). Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN   9780807833933. JSTOR   10.5149/9780807898277_hudson. LCCN   2009049093. OCLC   658198573. Project MUSE   book 18384.
• Jillson, Willard R. (1943). Henry Clay's Defense of Aaron Burr in 1806, an Episode of Early Western Adventure. Frankfort, Kentucky. OCLC   5169614.
• Kennedy, Roger G. (2000). Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140552.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-1998-4877-5. LCCN   99022453. OCLC   181840559.
• Lee, Kristin Condotta (2018). "Trading Spaces: Commerce, Ethnicity, and Early Irish New Orleans". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 59 (3): 261–307. ISSN   0024-6816.
• Lee, Jacob F. (June 2023). ""Do You Go to New Orleans?": The Louisiana Purchase, Federalism, and the Contingencies of Empire in the Early U.S. Republic" . Early American Studies. 21 (3): 460–490. doi:10.1353/eam.2023.a904223. ISSN   1559-0895.
• Lewis, James E. Jr. (2017). The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvc772g7. ISBN   978-0-691-17716-8. JSTOR   j.ctvc772g7. LCCN   2017009890. OCLC   974567685. Project MUSE   book 64669.
• McCaleb, Walter Flavius (1936). The Aaron Burr Conspiracy. New York: Wilson-Erickson. LCCN   38002747.
• Narrett, David E. (2012). "Geopolitics and Intrigue: James Wilkinson, the Spanish Borderlands, and Mexican Independence" . The William and Mary Quarterly. 69 (1): 101–146. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.69.1.0101. ISSN   0043-5597. JSTOR   10.5309/willmaryquar.69.1.0101.
• Newmyer, R. Kent (2012). The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation. Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-107-60661-6.
• Pratt, Julius W. (October 1945). "Aaron Burr and the Historians". New York History. 26 (4). Fenimore Art Museum. Cornell University Press: 447–470. ISSN   0146-437X. JSTOR   23149934.
• Ranck, James B. (1930). "Andrew Jackson and the Burr Conspiracy". Tennessee Historical Magazine. 1 (1): 17–28. ISSN   2333-9012. JSTOR   42638050.
• Remini, Robert V. (1995). "Andrew Jackson Takes an Oath of Allegiance to Spain". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 54 (1): 2–15. ISSN   0040-3261. JSTOR   42628387.
• Schneider, Norris F. (1966). Blennerhassett Island and the Burr Conspiracy. Ohio Historical Society (4th ed.). Columbus, Ohio.
• Sprague, Stuart Seely (1973). "The Louisville Canal: Key to Aaron Burr's Western Trip of 1805". The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 71 (1): 69–86. ISSN   0023-0243. JSTOR   23377346.
• Stewart, David O. (2011). American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-1-4391-6032-9. LCCN   2011002647. OCLC   892924831.
• Trogdon, Jo Ann (2015). The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN   978-0-8262-2049-3.
• Vernet, Julien (2013). Strangers on Their Native Soil: Opposition to United States' Governance in Louisiana's Orleans Territory, 1803–1809. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-61703-753-5. JSTOR   j.ctt24hwc9.
• Wilkinson, James (1935). Wilkinson, Soldier and Pioneer. New Orleans: Rogers Printing Co. LCCN   44002879. OCLC   1855454.
• Wood, Marie Beyer (1951). None called him neighbor: The story of Harman Blennerhassett and the Aaron Burr conspiracy. Parkersburg (?), West Virginia. LCCN   52031386.
• Wright, Louis B.; Macleod, Julia H. (1945). "William Eaton's Relations with Aaron Burr" . The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 31 (4): 523–536. doi:10.2307/1895330. ISSN   0161-391X. JSTOR   1895330.