U.S. Declaration of Independence/Bibliography

• Armitage, David. The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007) excerpt and text search
• Armitage, David. "The Declaration of Independence and International Law." William and Mary Quarterly 2002 59(1): 39-64. Issn: 0043-5597 Fulltext online at the History Cooperative
• Armitage, David. "The Declaration of Independence in World Context." Magazine of History 2004 18(3): 61-66. Issn: 0882-228x Fulltext in Ebsco. Discusses the drafting of the Declaration and the international motivations that inspired it, the global reactions to the document in its first fifty years, and its afterlife as a broad modern statement of individual and collective rights.
• Bancroft, George. History of the United States of America, from the discovery of the American continent. (1854-78), vol 8 online edition
• Barthelmas, Della Gray. The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference. McFarland, 2003. 334 pp
• Becker, Carl. The Declaration of Independence: A Study on the History of Political Ideas (1922), online edition
• Boyd, Julian P. The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text (1945)
• Dershowitz, Alan. America Declares Independence. 2003; attacks notion that it created a "Christian nation"; online edition
• Dumbauld, Edward. The Declaration of Independence and What It Means Today (1950) online edition
• Eicholz, Hans L. Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self Government (2001) online edition
• Ellis, Joseph J., ed. What Did the Declaration Declare? Bedford Books, 1999. 110 pp. online review
• Gustafson, Milton. "Travels of the Charters of Freedom." Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration 2004 (Special Issue): 8-13. Issn: 0033-1031
• Jayne, Allen. Jefferson's Declaration of Independence: Origins, Philosophy and Theology. U. Press of Kentucky, 1998. 245 pp. online review
• McCullough, David. John Adams (2001)
• Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. Vintage, 1997.
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Rights of Man. 1951. Pp. 550pp, vol 2 of Malone's standard biography
• Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (2nd ed 2007) general history of the Revolution excerpt and text search
• Miller, John C. Triumph of Freedom, 1775-1783 (1948), political and military history of the Revolution online edition
• Wills, Garry. Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (2002) excerpt and text search