History of the Democratic Party (United States)/Bibliography

Surveys

 * American National Biography (20 volumes, 1999) covers all politicians no longer alive; online and paper copies at many academic libraries. Older Dictionary of American Biography.
 * Dinkin, Robert J. Campaigning in America: A History of Election Practices. (Greenwood 1989)
 * Keller, Morton. America's Three Regimes: A New Political History (2007) 384pp.
 * Remini, Robert V. The House: The History of the House of Representatives (2006), extensive coverage of the party
 * Sabato, Larry J., and Howard R. Ernst eds. Political Parties and Elections (2007), 540pp; an encyclopedia with 450 entries by scholars, strongest on period after 1945
 * Shafer, Byron E. and Anthony J. Badger, eds. Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000 (2001), most recent collection of new essays by specialists on each time period:
 * includes: "State Development in the Early Republic: 1775–1840" by Ronald P. Formisano; "The Nationalization and Racialization of American Politics: 1790–1840" by David Waldstreicher; "'To One or Another of These Parties Every Man Belongs;": 1820–1865 by Joel H. Silbey; "Change and Continuity in the Party Period: 1835–1885" by Michael F. Holt; "The Transformation of American Politics: 1865–1910" by Peter H. Argersinger; "Democracy, Republicanism, and Efficiency: 1885–1930" by Richard Jensen; "The Limits of Federal Power and Social Policy: 1910–1955" by Anthony J. Badger; "The Rise of Rights and Rights Consciousness: 1930–1980" by James T. Patterson, Brown University; and "Economic Growth, Issue Evolution, and Divided Government: 1955–2000" by Byron E. Shafer

Before 1932

 * Allen, Oliver E. The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall (1993)
 * Baker, Jean. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1983).
 * Cole, Donald B. Martin Van Buren And The American Political System (1984)
 * Bass, Herbert J. "I Am a Democrat": The Political Career of David B. Hill 1961.
 * Collins, Bruce. "The Ideology of the Ante-bellum Northern Democrats." Journal of American Studies (1977) 11(1): 103-121. Issn: 0021-8758
 * Craig, Douglas B. After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920-1934 (1992) excerpt and text search
 * Flick, Alexander C. Samuel Jones Tilden: A Study in Political Sagacity 1939.
 * Formisano, Ronald P. The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s (1983)
 * Gammon, Samuel Rhea. The Presidential Campaign of 1832 (1922) online edition
 * Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1960), Pulitzer prize. Pro-Bank
 * Jensen, Richard. Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854-1983 (1983)
 * Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America 1977.
 * Kleppner, Paul et al. The Evolution of American Electoral Systems (1983), essays, 1790s to 1980s.
 * Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures (1979), analysis of voting behavior, with emphasis on region, ethnicity, religion and class. online edition
 * McCormick, Richard P. The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era (1966)
 * Merrill, Horace Samuel. Bourbon Democracy of the Middle West, 1865-1896 1953.
 * Nevins, Allan. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage 1934. Pulitzer Prize
 * Remini, Robert V. Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party (1959)
 * Rhodes, James Ford. The History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 8 vol (1932) online edition
 * Ritchie, Donald A. Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932 (2007) excerpt and text search
 * Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (1999). argues the Democrats were the true progressives and GOP was mostly conservative
 * Sarasohn, David. The Party of Reform: Democrats in the Progressive Era (1989), covers 1910-1930.
 * Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2000 (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). For each election includes history and selection of primary documents. Essays on some elections are reprinted in Schlesinger, The Coming to Power: Critical presidential elections in American history (1972)
 * Sharp, James Roger. The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the States after the Panic of 1837 (1970) online edition
 * Silbey, Joel H. A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868 (1977)
 * Silbey, Joel H. The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 (1991) online edition
 * Stampp, Kenneth M. Indiana Politics during the Civil War (1949) online edition
 * Welch, Richard E. The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland 1988.
 * Whicher, George F. William Jennings Bryan and the Campaign of 1896 (1953), primary and secondary sources.
 * Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), highly detailed synthesis. excerpt and text search
 * Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 1951. online edition at ACLS History ebooks

Since 1932
see also Fifth Party System
 * Allswang, John M. New Deal and American Politics (1978)
 * Andersen, Kristi. The Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928-1936  (1979)
 * Barone, Michael, and Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac of American Politics 2008: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors: Their Records and Election Results, Their States and Districts (2007), covers all the live politicians.
 * Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956)
 * Cantril, Hadley and Mildred Strunk, eds. Public Opinion, 1935-1946 (1951), compilation of public opinion polls from US, UK, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere.
 * Dallek, Robert.  Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President (2004)]
 * Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (1990), essays.
 * Hamby, Alonzo. Liberalism and Its Challengers: From F.D.R. to Bush (1992).
 * Jensen, Richard. Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854-1983 (1983)
 * Jensen, Richard. "The Last Party System, 1932-1980," in Paul Kleppner, ed. Evolution of American Electoral Systems (1981)
 * Judis, John B. and Ruy Teixeira. The Emerging Democratic Majority (2004) demography is destiny
 * Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (2001), synthesis online edition
 * Ladd Jr., Everett Carll with Charles D. Hadley. Transformations of the American Party System: Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s 2nd ed. (1978).
 * Lamis, Alexander P. ed. Southern Politics in the 1990s (1999)
 * Martin, John Bartlow. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (1976),
 * Moscow, Warren. The Last of the Big-Time Bosses: The Life and Times of Carmine de Sapio and the Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall (1971)
 * Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1997) synthesis. excerpt and text search
 * Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore (2005) synthesis. excerpt and text search
 * Patterson, James. Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-39 (1967)
 * Plotke, David. Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (1996).
 * Rae, Nicol C. Southern Democrats (1994) online edition
 * Sabato, Larry J., and Howard R. Ernst. Encyclopedia Of American Political Parties And Elections (2006) comprehensive coverage of politics since 1945.
 * Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2000 (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). For each election includes history and selection of primary documents. Essays on some elections are reprinted in Schlesinger, The Coming to Power: Critical presidential elections in American history (1972)
 * Shelley II, Mack C. The Permanent Majority: The Conservative Coalition in the United States Congress (1983)
 * Sundquist, James L. Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States, (1983) online edition
 * Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (2008), major narrative history

Popular histories

 * Ling, Peter J. The Democratic Party: A Photographic History (2003).
 * Rutland, Robert Allen. The Democrats: From Jefferson to Clinton (1995).
 * Schlisinger, Galbraith. Of the People: The 200 Year History of the Democratic Party (1992)
 * Witcover, Jules. Party of the People: A History of the Democrats (2003)