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Documentary Editions of Madison’s Writings
Cooke, Jacob E., ed. The Federalist. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
LC call number: JK154 1961b
Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. 4 vols. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1911-37.
LC call number: JK141 1966a
Hunt, Gaillard, ed. The Writings of James Madison. 9 vols. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1900-10.
LC call number: E302 .M22
Hutchinson, William T. et al., eds. The Papers of James Madison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1962-.
LC call number: E302 .M19
Hutson, James H., ed. Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1987.
LC call number: KF4510 .U547 1966 Suppl.
Mattern, David B., and Holly C. Shulman, eds. The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.
LC call number: E342.1.M18 A4 2003
Rakove, Jack N., ed. James Madison, Writings. New York: Library of America, 1999.
LC call number: E302 .M192 1999
Smith, James M., ed. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. 3 vols. New York: W.W. Norton Company, 1995.
LC call number: E332.88 .M33 1995
Smith, Paul H. et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. 26 vols. Washington: Library of Congress, 1976-2000.
LC call number: JK1033 .L47
Biographies
Arnett, Ethel S. Mrs. James Madison: The Incomparable Dolley. Greensboro, N.C.: Piedmont Press, 1972.
LC call number: E342.1 .A76
Banning, Lance. Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1995.
LC call number: E310 .B23 1995
Banning, Lance. The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995.
LC call number: E342. B245 1995
Brant, Irving. James Madison. 6 vols. Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1941-61.
LC call number: E342 .B7
Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. New York: MacMillan, 1971.
LC call number: E342 .K46 1971
Leibiger, Stuart Eric. Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999.
LC call number: E312.29 .L45 1999
McCoy, Drew R. The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
LC call number: E342 .M33 1989
Miller, William Lee. The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1992.
LC call number: E342 .M55 1992
Peterson, Merrill D., ed. James Madison, A Biography in His Own Words. New York: Newsweek, 1974.
LC call number: E342 .A34 1974b
Rakove, Jack N. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic. Edited by Oscar Handlin. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education, 1990. Reprint, New York: Longman, 2002.
LC call number: E342 .R35 2002
Rives, William C. History of the Life and Times of James Madison. 3 vols. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1859-68.
LC call number: E342 .R623
Rutland, Robert Allen. The Birth of the Bill of Rights. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.
LC call number: KF4749 .R87 1991
Rutland, Robert Allen. James Madison: The Founding Father. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
LC call number: E342 .R88 1997
Rutland, Robert Allen, ed. James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836: An Encyclopedia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
LC call number: E342 .J36 1994
Stagg, John C. A. Mr. Madison's War: politics, diplomacy, and warfare in the early American republic, 1783-1830. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.
LC call number: E357 .S79 1983
Wills, Garry. James Madison. New York: Times Books, 2002.
LC call number: E342 .W55 2002
The American Revolution
Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988.
LC call number: E263.V8 S45 1988
The War of 1812
Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War That Forged a Nation.New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.
LC call number: E354 .B66 2004
Muller, Charles Geoffrey. The Darkest Day: The Washington-Baltimore Campaign During the War of 1812. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
LC call number: E355.6 .M8
Pitch, Anthony S. The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
LC call number: E356.W3 P49 1998
For Younger Readers
Leavell, J. Perry, Jr. James Madison. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
LC call number: E342 .L43 1988
Welsbacher, Anne. James Madison. Edina, Minn.: Abdo & Daughters, 2002.
LC call number: E342 .W45 2002
Online Resources
Related Library of Congress Resources
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U. S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
"Colonization," from The African-American Mosaic
Library of Congress Online Exhibit
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html
The George Washington Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
Images from the American Colonization Society Collection
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/007-b.html
"James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy"
Library of Congress Symposium
http://www.loc.gov/loc/madison/symposium.html
Madison's Treasures
Library of Congress Online Exhibit
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/madison/
The Thomas Jefferson Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/index.html
Related External Web Sites
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The James Madison Papers at the University of Virginia
http://www.virginia.edu/pjm/
James Madison Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/debcont.htm
The Federalist Papers
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm
The James Madison Center at James Madison University
http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/
James Madison Museum
http://www.jamesmadisonmus.org/
James Madison's Montpelier
http://www.montpelier.org/
The Dolley Madison Project
http://moderntimes.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/index.html