7. The United States: Federalist Era through 1877
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946, 2000. Written in 1905. (Author was grandson of John Quincy Adams. Emphasis is on politics and history. Relevant material is on pp. 3-313.) NRG, RGC, RVS: E 175.5 .A2 A3 2000. There are earlier editions at NRG and RGC.
Adams, John Quincy. John Quincy Adams and the American Continental Empire: Letters, Papers and Speeches. Edited by Walter Lafeber. Chicago, Ill.: Quadrangle Books, 1965. (Selection of major state papers and personal documents, drawn from Adams’ private diary and personal letters. No material from his presidency. Focus is on foreign policy but some documents on slavery.) NRG: E 377.8 .A4 1965
Barnum, P. T. Struggles and Triumphs, or, Forty Years’ Recollectons of P. T. Barnum. Edited by Carl Bode. New York: Penguin Books, 1981. RGC: GV 1811 .B3 A3 1981
Carnegie, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. Boston, Mass: Northeastsern University Press, 1986. (The first fourteen chapters have to do with the subject matter of History 1613. Author arrived in Pennsylvania from Scotland in 1848.) RGC: CT 275 .C3 A3 1986
Cashin, Joan, E., ed. Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. RGC: HQ 1438 .S63 O973
Crockett, Davy (David). A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. RVS: F 436 .C9395 1987
Daniel, Harriet Bailey Bullock. A Remembrance of Eden: Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel’s Memories of a Frontier Plantation in Arkansas, 1849-1872. Edited by Margaret Jones Bolsterli. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993. RVS: F 411 .D165 1993
Davis, Jefferson. The Papers of Jefferson Davis. (Vols. 1 and 2.) Edited by Haskell M. Monroe, Jr. and James T. McIntosh. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971- . (Vol. 1 covers 1808-1840. Vol. 2 covers June 1841-July 1846. Vols. 3-7 are in UT’s PCL Stacks. The call number there is E 467.1 D2596. All are pre-Civil War except Vol. 7.) NRG, RGC: E 467.1 .D2596
Dimond, E. Grey, and Herman Hattaway, eds. Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family’s Correspondence, 1846-1881. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. NRG: F 347 .C3 L48 1993.
Ford, John Salmon. Rip Ford’s Texas. Ed. by Stephen B. Gates. Austin: (Personal Narratives of the West.) University of Texas Press, 1987. (Coverage begins in 1836 and ends in the 1880s. Ford was a physician, lawyer, journalist, soldier, and Texas Ranger.) RVS: F 391 .F67 1987
French, Benjamin B. Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828-1879. Ed. by Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989. RGC: E 338 .F74 1989
Grant, Julia Dent. The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. Carbondale: Ed. by John Y., Simon. Southern Illinois University Press, 1988, 1975. (Wife of Ulysses S. Grant.) RVS: E 672.1 .673 A3 1988
Grant, Ulysses S. Memoirs and Selected Letters: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Selected Letters, 1839-1865. New York: Library of America, 1990. RGC: E 660 .67562 1990
Green, Mary Rowena (Maverick), ed. Samuel Maverick, Texan, 1803-1870: A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs. San Antonio: Privately printed, 1952. (Most of the letters are from Samuel Maverick to his wife, Mary A. Maverick. The memoirs are those of Mary A. Maverick.) NRG: F 390 .M498 G7
Hamilton, Jeff. “My Master,” the Inside Story of Sam Houston and His Times, by His Former Slave, Jeff Hamilton, as Told to Lenoir Hunt. Rev. ed. Austin, Texas: Statehouse Press, 1992. (Probably just covers the 1850s and ’60s.) CYP, NRG: F 390 .H84 H35 1992
Hammond, James Henry. Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder. Edited by Carol K. Rothrock Bleser. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1984. NRG, RGC, RVS: F 273 .H24 1988.
Harper, Annie. Annie Harper’s Journal: A Southern Mother’s Legacy. Ed. by Jeannie Marie Deen. Denton: Flower Mound Writing Company, 1983. ( Southern plantation life; Civil War. Locale is Natchez, Mississippi.) RGC: E 605 .H275 1983
Hellerstein, Erna Olafson, and others, eds. Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women’s Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and the United States. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1981. RGC: HQ 1599 .E5 V5 1981
Herndon, William H. Herndon’s Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Edited by David Freeman Hawke. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. (Abridged from original 3-vol. work, published in 1889. Excisions heaviest where author drew on recollections of others. Omits Ann Rutledge story. Technically a secondary source, but Herndon was Lincoln’s law partner for many years. Most useful for 1840s and ’50s, when Herndon knew his subject on a day-to-day basis. First attempt at a balanced portrait of Lincoln.) CYP: E 457 .H575 1970
Houston, Sam. The Autobiography of Sam Houston. Edited by Donald Day and Harry Herbert Ullom. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. (Not a true autobiography but the editors’ arrangement of various primary source material written by Houston into the form of an autobiography.) PIN, RVS: F 390 .H827 1980. (The RVS copy may be overdue.)
Houston, Sam. The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston. Vol. l, 1839-1845. Vol. 2, 1846-1848. Edited by Madge Thornall Roberts. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995- . RVS: F 390 .H833
Johannsen, Robert W., ed. Democracy on Trial: A Documentary History of American Life, 1845-1877. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. RVS: E 415.7 .D46 1988
Kemble, Frances (“Fanny”). Fanny Kemble’s Journals. Edited and with an introduction by Catherine Clinton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. (Selections from author’s six published journals. Kemble was a British actress; lived off and on in the United States from the 1830s to the 1870s. Wrote about women and slavery. Was a passionate abolitionist.) RVS: PN 2598 .K4 A25 2000.
Lee, Robert E.. The Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee. New York: Konecky & Konecky, (1992?). (Author and compiler was General Lee’s son, who had the same name. The Lee of the title is General Lee. Most of book is about the five years between end of the Civil War and General Lee’s death in 1870. Contents: Chapter I, pre-Civil War; Chapters II-VIII, Civil War; Chapters IX-XXIV, 1865-1870.) RGC: E 467.1 .L4 L432 1992
Lincecum, Gideon. Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist: The Life and Times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum. Edited by Jerry Bryan Lincecum and Edward Hake Phillips. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994. (Written in 1870s. Author [1793-1874], a physician and naturalist, born in Georgia. Practiced medicine there. Came to Texas first in 1835, then again, to reside, in late 1840s. Had rather unorthodox medical and religious views.) NRG: QH 31 L68 A3 1994
Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait through His Speeches and Writings. Edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. New York: New American Library, 1964. RVS: E 457.92 .L524 1964.
Lincoln, Abraham. The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Edited, and with a biographical essay by Philip Van Doren Stern. New York: Random House, 1940. RGC: E 457.92 .L5 1940.
Lincoln, Abraham. Lincoln on Democracy. Edited by Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer. New York: HarperCollins, 1990. (Almost all of the 140 Lincoln texts come from the eight-volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln [1953-1955], edited by Roy P. Basler. Some are full texts, some extracts. Dates are from 1832 to 1865.) RVS: E 457 .L92 1990
Lincoln, Abraham. The Living Lincoln: The Man, His Mind, His Times, and the War He Fought, Reconstructed from His Own Writings. Edited by Paul M. Angle and Earl Schenck Miers.New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992. (Reprint of 1955 ed. Based on nine-volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler. Some longer documents excerpted. Table of contents very general. Use index also.) PIN: E 457.92 .L56 1955
Lincoln, Abraham. The Portable Abraham Lincoln Reader. Edited by Andrew Delbanco. New York: Viking, 1992. NRG: E 457.92 .P67 1992
Madison, Dolley. Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison, Wife of James Madison, President of the United States. (American History and Culture in the Nineteenth Century.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1971. (Edited by author’s grandniece. Title and text misspell first name. First letter dated 1796; the last 1837. The memoirs, into which the letters are interspersed, were written by the grandniece. As such, they constitute a secondary source.) NRG, RGC: E 342.1 .M18 1971
Mitgang, Herbert, ed. Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait: His Life and Times from the Original Newspaper Documents of the Union, the Confederacy, and Europe. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1989. (Originally published, 1971.) RGC: E 457 .A1627 1989
Nichols, James Wilson. Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820-1887. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. (Written when author was 67 years old. Nichols was at the siege of the Alamo. Lived afterwards mostly in Guadalupe-Gonzales counties area. Fought Indians as a Texas Ranger. Fought in the Mexican War. Was a Unionist in the Civil War.) NRG, RGC: F 392 G65 N652 1968
Reagan, John H. Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War. Edited by Walter F. McCaleb. New York: AMS Press. (Reprint of 1906 ed.) Author was postmaster-general of the Confederacy; U.S. congressman and senator after the Civil War; chairman, Railroad Commission of Texas.) CYP: E 487 .R28 1973
Ruffin, Edmund. The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Ed. by William K. Scarborough. 2 vols. (The Library of Southern Civilization.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. RGC: F 230 .R9314
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman. New York: Library of America, 1990. RVS: E 467.1 .S55 A3 1990
Smithwick, Noah. The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days. Edited by Nanna Smithwick Donaldson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. (Life in Texas between the 1820s and ’60s.) NRG, RGC, RVS: F 389 .S66 1983
Strong, George Templeton. The Diary of George Templeton Strong. Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas. Abridged by Thomas J. Pressly. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. (Entries reflect author’s insterests in New York City (where he practiced law), in state and national politics, international affairs, and much else. Is of particular value for comments on relations between North and South, blacks and whites. Abridgement contains between one-fifth and one-fourth of the material in the complete four-volume diary. Years covered: 1837-1875. The unabridged four-volume diary is in the PCL at UT. The call number is 974.71 ST88B1.) NRG: F 128.44 .S8325 1988
Thomas, Ella Gertrude Clanton. The Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889. Ed. by Virginia Ingraham Burr. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. (Diary of a Georgia woman.) NRG, RGC: F 213 .S43 1990
Trammel, Camilla Davis. Seven Pines: Its Occupants and Their Letters, 1825-1872. Houston: C. D. Trammell, 1986. (Author [a descendant of the Hardin and Davis families, whose members lived in the house mentioned in the title in Liberty, Texas] provides introductions to the letters and excerpts from other documents. Interesting material on Anglo immigration into Mexican Texas, the Texas Revolution, family slaves, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.) NRG, RGC: F 394 .L5 T73 1986
Twain, Mark. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. New York: Perennial Library, H arper & Row, 1975. NRG, RGC: PS 1331 .A2 1975
Twain, Mark. The Portable Mark Twain. Compiled by Bernard De Voto. New York: The Viking Press, 1983. NRG, RGC: PS 1302 .D4 1983
Weld, Theodore Dwight, Angelina Grimké, and Sarah Grimké. Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké, and Sarah Grimké, 1822-1844. Edited by Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1965. RGC: E 449 .W443 1965.
Zilversmit, Arthur, ed. Lincoln on Black and White: A Documentary History. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Pub. Co., 1983. (Writings by Abraham Lincoln and contemporaries about Lincoln’s racial views. Period covered: 1837-1865.) RGC: E 457.92 1983
Zuber, William Physick. My Eighty Years in Texas. Edited by Janis Boyle Mayfield. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971. (Years covered: 1830-1910. Author was a soldier [Texas Revolution, Republic of Texas, Civil War], farmer, schoolteacher, and Texas historian.) EVC, NRG: F 390 .Z815 1971