This is a bibliography of works about and principle works by Alexander Hamilton.

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party, in 1791.

Works listed here are cited in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly sources. Each is published by an academic or major press, written by a recognized expert, or substantially reviewed in scholarly journals; borderline cases are omitted. A selection of primary sources are included. Many of the books below carry their own bibliographies; see the Further reading section for other bibliographies, and the External links section for historical sites, academic sites, and museums.

Citations follow APA style. Book have citations to academic journal or mainstream published reviews when available. For books only partly about the subject, relevant chapter or section titles are provided when useful and available. Translators of the original-language edition are included when possible. In cases where a title or name has appeared with more than one English spelling, the most recent published form is used and a footnote documents any earlier title under which the work appeared.

General works Brookhiser, R. (1999). Alexander Hamilton, American. Free Press. Chernow, R. (2004). Alexander Hamilton. Penguin Books. Cooke, J. E. (1982). Alexander Hamilton. Charles Scribner's Sons. McDonald, F. (1979). Alexander Hamilton: A biography. W. W. Norton. Miller, J. C. (1959). Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in paradox. Harper & Brothers. Mitchell, B. (1957b). Alexander Hamilton: Youth to maturity, 1755–1788. Macmillan. Mitchell, B. (1962). Alexander Hamilton: The national adventure, 1788–1804. Macmillan. Mitchell, B. (1970). Alexander Hamilton: The revolutionary years. Thomas Y. Crowell. Randall, W. S. (2003). Alexander Hamilton: A life. HarperCollins.

Revolutionary America Youth and the Caribbean years Flexner, J. T. (1978). The young Hamilton: A biography. Little, Brown. Larson, H. (1952). Alexander Hamilton: The fact and fiction of his early years. The William and Mary Quarterly, 9(2), 139. Newton, M. E. (2015). Alexander Hamilton: The formative years. Eleftheria Publishing. Porwancher, A. (2021). The Jewish world of Alexander Hamilton. Princeton University Press.

The American revolutionary era Anderson, F. (2000). Crucible of war: The Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754–1766. Alfred A. Knopf. Bailyn, B. (1967). The ideological origins of the American Revolution. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Ferling, J. (2003). A leap in the dark: The struggle to create the American republic. Oxford University Press. Greene, J. P. (1988). Pursuits of happiness: The social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culture. University of North Carolina Press. McCusker, J. J., & Menard, R. R. (1985). The economy of British America, 1607–1789. University of North Carolina Press. Middlekauff, R. (1982). The glorious cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789. Oxford University Press. Nash, G. B. (1979). The urban crucible: Social change, political consciousness, and the origins of the American Revolution. Harvard University Press. Richter, D. K. (2001). Facing east from Indian country: A native history of early America. Harvard University Press. Taylor, A. (2016). American revolutions: A continental history, 1750–1804. W. W. Norton. Wood, G. S. (1969). The creation of the American republic, 1776–1787. University of North Carolina Press. Wood, G. S. (1992). The radicalism of the American Revolution. Alfred A. Knopf.

Military service, 1775–1783 Carp, E. W. (1984). To starve the army at pleasure: Continental Army administration and American political culture, 1775–1783. University of North Carolina Press. Cray, R. E. (1997). Major John Andre and the three captors: Class dynamics and revolutionary memory wars in the early republic, 1780–1831. Journal of the Early Republic, 17(3), 371. Ferling, J. (2007). Almost a miracle: The American victory in the War of Independence. Oxford University Press. Kohn, R. H. (1970). The inside history of the Newburgh conspiracy: America and the coup d'etat. The William and Mary Quarterly, 27(2), 187. Kohn, R. H. (1975). Eagle and sword: The Federalists and the creation of the military establishment in America, 1783–1802. Free Press. Lengel, E. G. (2005). General George Washington: A military life. Random House. Massey, G. D. (1997). The limits of antislavery thought in the revolutionary lower South: John Laurens and Henry Laurens. The Journal of Southern History, 63(3), 495. Nelson, P. D. (1972). Horatio Gates at Newburgh, 1783: A misunderstood role. The William and Mary Quarterly, 29(1), 143. Nelson, P. D. (1979). Citizen soldiers or regulars: The views of American general officers on the military establishment, 1775–1781. Military Affairs, 43(3), 126. Royster, C. (1979). A revolutionary people at war: The Continental Army and American character, 1775–1783. University of North Carolina Press. Skeen, C. E., & Kohn, R. H. (1974). The Newburgh conspiracy reconsidered. The William and Mary Quarterly, 31(2), 273. Walling, K.-F. (1999). Republican empire: Alexander Hamilton on war and free government. University Press of Kansas.

The Constitutional Convention and ratification Brooks, R. (1967). Alexander Hamilton, Melancton Smith, and the ratification of the Constitution in New York. The William and Mary Quarterly, 24(3), 339. Cornell, S. (1999). The other founders: Anti-Federalism and the dissenting tradition in America, 1788–1828. University of North Carolina Press. Crosby, R. W. (1976). The New York State ratifying convention: On federalism. Polity, 9(1), 97–116. De Pauw, L. G. (1966). The eleventh pillar: New York State and the federal Constitution. Cornell University Press. Ford, W. C. (1904). Alexander Hamilton's notes in the Federal Convention of 1787. The American Historical Review, 10(1), 97. Maier, P. (2010). Ratification: The people debate the Constitution, 1787–1788. Simon & Schuster. Rakove, J. N. (1987). The great compromise: Ideas, interests, and the politics of constitution making. The William and Mary Quarterly, 44(3), 424. Rakove, J. N. (1996). Original meanings: Politics and ideas in the making of the Constitution. Alfred A. Knopf. Richards, G. L. (1958). Alexander Hamilton's influence on John Marshall's judiciary speech in the 1788 Virginia federal ratifying convention. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 44(1), 31–39. Riker, W. H. (1991). Why negative campaigning is rational: The rhetoric of the ratification campaign of 1787–1788. Studies in American Political Development, 5(2), 224–283.

The Federalist Papers

Adair, D. (1944). The authorship of the disputed Federalist papers: Part II. The William and Mary Quarterly, 1(3), 235. Bosch, R. A., & Smith, J. A. (1998). Separating hyperplanes and the authorship of the disputed Federalist papers. The American Mathematical Monthly, 105(7), 601–608. Carey, G. W. (1984). Publius—A split personality? The Review of Politics, 46(1), 5–22. Epstein, D. F. (1984). The political theory of The Federalist. University of Chicago Press. Furtwangler, A. (1984). The authority of Publius: A reading of the Federalist papers. Cornell University Press. Millican, E. (1990). One united people: The Federalist papers and the national idea. University Press of Kentucky. Miranda-García, A., & Calle-Martín, J. (2012). The authorship of the disputed Federalist papers with an annotated corpus. English Studies, 93(3), 371–390. Mosteller, F., & Wallace, D. L. (1963). Inference in an authorship problem. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(302), 275–309. Mosteller, F., & Wallace, D. L. (1964). Inference and disputed authorship: The Federalist. Addison-Wesley. Rokeach, M., Homant, R. J., & Penner, L. A. (1970). A value analysis of the disputed Federalist papers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 16(2), 245–250. Slonim, S. (2006). Federalist No. 78 and Brutus' neglected thesis on judicial supremacy. Constitutional Commentary, 23(1), 7. Wills, G. (1981). Explaining America: The Federalist. Doubleday. Zvesper, J. (1984). The Madisonian systems. Western Political Quarterly, 37(2), 236–256.

The Early Republic, 1789–1801

Treasury secretary Bruchey, S. (1970). Alexander Hamilton and the state banks, 1789 to 1795. The William and Mary Quarterly, 27(3), 347. Cooke, J. E. (1975). Tench Coxe, Alexander Hamilton, and the encouragement of American manufactures. The William and Mary Quarterly, 32(3), 369. Cowen, D. J. (2000a). The First Bank of the United States and the securities market crash of 1792. The Journal of Economic History, 60(4), 1041–1060. Cowen, D. J. (2000b). The origins and economic impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791–1797. Garland. Curott, N. A., & White, L. H. (2024). How Adam Smith's banking views influenced Hamilton, Jefferson, and the debate over the Bank of the United States. Southern Economic Journal, 91(2), 540–559. Edling, M. M. (2003). A revolution in favor of government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the making of the American state. Oxford University Press. Edling, M. M. (2014). A Hercules in the cradle: War, money, and the American state, 1783–1867. University of Chicago Press. Edling, M. M., & Kaplanoff, M. D. (2004). Alexander Hamilton's fiscal reform: Transforming the structure of taxation in the early republic. The William and Mary Quarterly, 61(4), 713. Ferguson, E. J. (1961). The power of the purse: A history of American public finance, 1776–1790. University of North Carolina Press. Ferguson, E. J. (1969). The nationalists of 1781–1783 and the economic interpretation of the Constitution. The Journal of American History, 56(2), 241. Frith, M. A. (2026). Alexander Hamilton, Tench Coxe, and the diversity of talents: A neglected argument in early American protectionist thought. History of Economics Review, 1–17. Advance online publication. Grubb, F. (2003). Creating the U.S. dollar currency union, 1748–1811: A quest for monetary stability or a usurpation of state sovereignty for personal gain? American Economic Review, 93(5), 1778–1798. Hacker, L. M. (1957). The Report on Manufactures. The Historian, 19(2), 144–167. Hammond, B. (1957). Banks and politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton University Press. Irwin, D. A. (2004). The aftermath of Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures". The Journal of Economic History, 64(3), 800–821. McCraw, T. K. (2012). The founders and finance. Harvard University Press. Meardon, S. (2013). "A reciprocity of advantages": Carey, Hamilton, and the American protective doctrine. Early American Studies, 11(3), 431–454. Morgan, H. W. (1956). The origins and establishment of the First Bank of the United States. Business History Review, 30(4), 472–492. Nelson, J. R., Jr. (1979). Alexander Hamilton and American manufacturing: A reexamination. The Journal of American History, 65(4), 971. Nelson, J. R., Jr. (1987). Liberty and property: Political economy and policymaking in the new nation, 1789–1812. Johns Hopkins University Press. Perkins, E. J. (1994). American public finance and financial services, 1700–1815. Ohio State University Press. Rousseau, P. L., & Sylla, R. (2005). Emerging financial markets and early US growth. Explorations in Economic History, 42(1), 1–26. Shankman, A. (2003). "A new thing on earth": Alexander Hamilton, pro-manufacturing Republicans, and the democratization of American political economy. Journal of the Early Republic, 23(3), 323.