The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to Andrew Jackson.
Key biographies Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 – HathiTrust
(HathiTrust catalog)
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 Wars, Seminole Wars, Blackhawk 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
Land speculation, land policy, territorial expansion
- "the land office faction"
- fight over land office appointment
State and territorial 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
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
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)
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. - how writers saw him.
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
Vol. I: 1770–1803 Vol. II: 1804–1813 Vol. III: 1814–1815 Vol. IV: 1816–1820 Vol. V: 1821–1824 Vol. VI: 1825–1828 Vol. VII: 1829 Vol. VIII: 1830 Vol. IX: 1831 Vol. X: 1832 Vol. XI: 1833 Vol. XII: 1834
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
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 Portraits of Andrew Jackson Bibliography of the Burr conspiracy Bibliography of slavery in the United States
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