Bancroft:

• Blumberg, A. "George Bancroft, France, and the Vatican: Some Aspects of American, French, and Vatican Diplomacy: 1866-1870. Catholic Historical Review 50 (1965) 475-93.
• Canary, Robert H. George Bancroft. New York: Twayne, 1974.
• Ernest, John Richard. The Language of Truth: Narrative Strategy in the Histories of William H. Prescott, George Bancroft, and Henry Adams. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1989.
• Gates, L. F. "Canadian Rebel's Appeal to George Bancroft." New England Quarterly 41 (1968) 96-104.
• Handlin, Lilian. George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.
• Hoffer, Peter Charles. Liberty or Order: Two Views of American History from the Revolutionary Crisis to the Early Works of George Bancroft and Wendell Phillips. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1970.
• Johnson, Edgar Hutchinson, III. George Bancroft, Slavery, and the American Union. Dissertation, Auburn, 1983.
• Lewis, Merrill Embert. American Frontier History as Literature: Studies in the Historiography of George Bancroft, Frederick Jackson Turner and Theodore Roosevelt. Dissertation, University of Utah, 1968.
• -----. "Organic Metaphor and Edenic Myth in George Bancroft's History of the United States." Journal of the History of Ideas 26 (1965) 587-592.
• Marshall, Peter. "George Bancroft on the Canadian Rebellions and the American Revolution." New England Quarterly 63 (1980): 302-8.
• Mugridge, Ian. "Myth Making and History." International History Review 5 (1983) 318-321.
• Nye, Russel Blaine. George Bancroft, Brahmin Rebel. Rpt. New York: Octagon Books, 1972.
• Rohrs, Richard Carlton. George Bancroft and American Foreign Relations. Dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1976.
• Ross, Dorothy. "Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America." American Historical Review 89 (1984) 909-28.
• Vitzthum, Richard C. The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft, Parkman, and Adams. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.
• -----. "Theme and Method in Bancroft's History of the United States." New England Quarterly 41 (1968) 362-80
• Wood, Kirk. "The Central Theme of Southern History: Republicanism, not Slavery, Race, or Romanticism." Continuity 9 (1986) 33-71.

Motley:

• Edwards, John L. "John Lothrop Motley and the Netherlands" Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 97 (1982) 561-588.
• Guberman, Joseph. The Life of John Lothrop Motley. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973.
• Loomis, Edward Warren. A Study of John Lothrop Motley. Dissertation, Stanford, 1959.
• Tilton, E. M. "Holmes and his Critic Motley." American Literature 36 (1963) 463-74.
• Wexler, P. J. "Motley Datings" American Speech 64 (Spring 1989):89-94.

Parkman:

• Aaron, Daniel. "Two Boston Fugitives: Dana and Parkman." in American Literature, Culture, and Ideology: Essays in Honor of Henry Nash Smith. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.
• Altherr, Thomas L. "'Drunk with the Chase': The Influence of Francis Parkman's The California and Oregon Trail Upon Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick, Or The Whale." Journal of American Studies Association of Texas 21 (1990) 1-14.
• Beaver, Harold. "Parkman's Crack-Up: A Bostonian on the Oregon Trail." New England Quarterly 48 (1975) 84-103.
• Boorstin, Daniel. "New World Epics" in The Creators. New York: Random House, 1992. pp. 342-52.
• Curti, Merle. Human Nature in American Historical Thought. Columbia, University Press of Missouri, 1968.
• Donovan, Ellen Renee. Narrative Authority in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: A Study of Dialogic Structures (Cooper, Parkman, James, Twain). Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1988.
• -----. "Narrative Voices in Francis Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe." Clio 18 (Spring 1989) 275-90.
• Doughty, Howard. Francis Parkman. New York: Macmillan, 1962. Rpt. Harvard University Press, 1983.
• Eccles, W. J. "The History of New France According to Francis Parkman." William and Mary Quarterly 18 (1961) 63-75.
• Feltskog, Elmer Nathaniel. Francis Parkman's 'The Oregon Trail': A Textual Edition and Critical Study. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1966.
• Gale, Robert L. Francis Parkman. New York: Twayne, 1973.
• Griffin, D. E. "Man for the Hour: A Defense of Francis Parkman's Frontenac." New England Quarterly 43 (1970) 605-20.
• Hubbell, J. T. "Francis Parkman, Historian." Midwest Quarterly 8 (1966) 29-39.
• Innis, Kenneth. "'The History of the Frontier Like a Saga': Parkman, Pratt, and Jesuit Enterprise." in Lewis and Lee (eds.) The Westering Experience in American Literature: Bicentennial Essays. Bellingham, WA: Bureau for Faculty Research, Western Washington University.
• Jacobs, John Tobias. The Western Journey: Exploration, Education and Autobiography in Irving, Parkman and Thoreau. New York, Garland, 1988.
• Jacobs, Wilbur R. Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero: The Formative Years. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1991.
• -----. "Francis Parkman: Naturalist-Environmental Savant." Pacific Historical Review 61 (August 1992):341-356.
• -----. "Francis Parkman's Oration, 'Romance in America,'" American Historical Review 68 (1963) 692-698.
• -----, ed. Letters of Francis Parkman. 2 vols. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.
• -----. "Some of Parkman's Literary Devices." New England Quarterly 31 (June 1958) 244-252.
• -----. "Some Social Ideas of Francis Parkman." American Quarterly 9 (1957) 387-397.
• -----. "Willa Cather and Francis Parkman." in Murphy, J., Adams, L., and Rawlins, P. (eds.), Willa Cather: Family, Community, and History. Provo: Brigham Young University, 1990.
• Jennings, Francis. "Francis Parkman: A Brahmin Among Untouchables." William and Mary Quarterly 42 (July 1985) 305-328.
• -----. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
• -----. "A Vanishing Indian: Francis Parkman and his Sources." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 87 (1963) 306-323.
• Jones, Howard Mumford. "The Allure of the West." Harvard Library Bulletin 28 (1980) 19-32.
• Jubak, James. Cease to Ask so Far: Parkman's La Salle and the Voyage to the Sea. Master's Thesis, University of Virginia, 1973.
• Kelley, James Richard. The Bloody Loam: The Indian as Viewed by Parkman and Thoreau. Dissertation, SUNY - Stony Brook, 1976.
• Knadler, Stephen P. "Francis Parkman's Ethnography of the Brahmin Caste and the History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac." American Literature 65 (June 1993) 215-38.
• Lackey, Kris. "Eighteenth-century Aesthetic Theory and the Nineteenth-century Traveler in Trans-Alleghany America: F. Trollope, Dickens, Irving and Parkman." American Studies 32 (Spring 1991) 33-48.
• Levin, David. "Francis Parkman: Romantic Historian." The New Republic (August 15- 22, 1983), pp. 37-50.
• -----. "Modern Misjudgements of Racial Imperialism in Hawthorne and Parkman." Yearbook of English Studies (1983) 145-158.
• -----. "The Oregon Trail" in Hennig Cohen, ed., Landmarks of American Writing. New York, 1969, pp. 79-89.
• Lueck, Beth Lynne. The Sublime and the Picturesque in American Landscape Description, 1790-1850 (Brown, Irving, Parkman, Poe). Dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1983.
• Moore, L. Hugh. "Francis Parkman on the Oregon Trail: A Study in Cultural Prejudice." Western American Literature 12 (1977) 185-97.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. Francis Parkman. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1973.
• Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. Revised ed. Yale University Press, 1962.
• Neal, Charles R. "In Pursuit of Parkman." Journal of the West 25 (October 1986) 49- 61.
• Nelson, Paul David. "Francis Parkman." Chronicle: The Quarterly Magazine of the Historical Society of Michigan 21 (1985) 17-23.
• Nye, Russel B. "Parkman, Red Fate, and White Civilization." in Gohdes (ed.) Essays on American Literature in Honor of Jay B. Hubbell. Durham: Duke University Press, 1967.
• Paul, Angus. "Rising Interest in Analysis of American Nonfiction is Exemplified by Work on Agee, Crane, Parkman, and Others." Chronicle of Higher Education 34 (Jan 13, 1988) A4- 5+.
• Pease, Otis A. Parkman's History: The Historian as Literary Artist. Rpt. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1968.
• Pfaehler, Kenneth John. Issues of Style in Parkman's Pontiac. Master's thesis, University of Virginia, 1985.
• Salamon, Lynda Brown. Two Nineteenth-Century Views of History: James Fenimore Cooper and Francis Parkman. Dissertation, University of Maryland, 1989.
• Schama, Simon. Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations). New York: Knopf, 1991.
• Scherting, Jack. "Tracking the Pequod Along the Oregon Trail: The Influence of Parkman's Narrative on Imagery and Characters in Moby-Dick." Western American Literature 22 (May 1987) 3-15.
• Shulman, R. "Parkman's Indians and American Violence." Massachusetts Review 12 (1971) 221-39.
• Sullivan, Wilson. "Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott" in New England Men of Letters. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
• Sundahl, Daniel James. "Cunning Corridors: Parkman's La Salle as Quest-Romance." Colby Library Quarterly 25 (June 1989) 109-124.
• Taylor, William. "A Journey Into the Human Mind: Motivation in Francis Parkman's LaSalle." William and Mary Quarterly 19 (1962) 218-227.
• -----. "That Way Lies Madness: Nature and Human Nature in Parkman's LaSalle." in Rueben A. Brower and Richard Poirier, eds. In Defense of Reading. New York: Dutton, 1962.
• Terrie, Philip G. "The Other Within: Indianization on the Oregon Trail." New England Quarterly 64 (September 1991) 376-92.
• Thacker, Robert. "The Plains Landscape and Descriptive Technique." Great Plains Quarterly 2 (1982) 146-156.
• -----. "The Plains, Parkman, and the Oregon Trail." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 28 (1985) 262-70.
• Thompson, Richard A. "Francis Parkman on the Nature of Man." Mid-America 42 (1960) 3-17.
• Tonsor, Stephen. "The Conservative as Historian: Francis Parkman." Modern Age 27 (Summer/Fall 1983) 246-55.
• Townsend, Kim. "Francis Parkman and the Male Tradition." American Quarterly 38 (Spring 1986) 97-113.
• Tribble, Joseph L. "The Paradise of the Imagination: The Journeys of the Oregon Trail." New England Quarterly 46 (1973) 523-42.
• Tuttleton, James W. "Simon Schama, Francis Parkman, and the Writing of History." New Criterion 10 (September 1991) 39-52.
• Vitzthum, Richard C. The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft, Parkman, and Adams. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
• -----. "Historian as Editor: Francis Parkman's Reconstruction of Sources in Montcalm and Wolfe." Journal of American History 53 (December 1966) 471-86.
• Ward, Geoffrey C. "Out of Boston's Bounds." American Heritage 42 (November 1990) 14+.
• Wood, Kirk. "The Central Theme of Southern History: Republicanism, not Slavery, Race, or Romanticism." Continuity 9 (1986) 33-71.

Prescott:

• Boorstin, Daniel. "New World Epics." in The Creators. New York, Random House, 1992, pp. 342-352.
• Brotherston, G. J. "Indian Farewell in Prescott's Conquest of Mexico." American Literature 45 (1973) 348-56.
• Cockcroft, J. D. "Prescott and his Sources: A Critical Appraisal." Hispanic American Historical Review 48 (1968) 59-74.
• Costeloe, Michael P. "Prescott's History of the Conquest and Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico: Mexican Reaction." The Americas 47 (January 1991) 337-48.
• Darnell, Donald G. William Hickling Prescott. Boston: Twayne, 1975.
• Ernest, John Richard. The Language of Truth: Narrative Strategy in the Histories of William H. Prescott, George Bancroft, and Henry Adams. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1989.
• Gardiner, G. Harvey, ed. The Literary Memoranda of William Hickling Prescott. University of Oklahoma Press, 1961.
• -----. Prescott and his Publishers. Carbondale: University of Illinois Press, 1959.
• -----. William Hickling Prescott: A Biography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969.
• Gladsky, Thomas S. "Revolution and Renewal in Prescott's The Conquest of Peru." Modern Age 29 (Fall 1985) 314-18.
• Goodwin, Frank. "The Literary Style of William Hickling Prescott." Inter-American Review of Bibliography 9 (March 1959) 16-39.
• Howell, R. "Prescott's Visit to England, 1850." History Today 17 (1967) 750-7.
• Peck, Harry T. William Hickling Prescott: A Biography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969.
• Ringe, Donald A. "The Function of Landscape in Prescott's The Conquest of Mexico." New England Quarterly 56 (December 1983) 569-77.
• Sullivan, Wilson. "Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott" in New England Men of Letters. New York: MacMillan, 1972.

General:

• Callcott, George H. History in the United States 1800-1860. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970.
• Kraus, Michael. The Writing of American History. Revised ed. Norman, University of Oklahoma, 1985.
• Van Tassel, David. Recording America's Past: An Interpretation of the Development of Historical Studies in America 1607-1884. University of Chicago Press, 1960.
• Wish, Harry. The American Historian: A Social Intellectual History of the Writing of the American Past. Oxford University Press, 1960.
  
  

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