Richard Hildreth/Bibliography

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Chronological selection of Hildreth's most important writings

• The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore. 2 vols. Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1836. The Slave: or Memoirs of Archy Moore. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Boston: Whipple and Damrell, 1840. Online 1840 edition at books.google.com. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive. Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1852. Online American 1852 edition at "Documenting the American South". The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive. A Story of Slave Life in Virginia, etc. First English illustrated edition. London: Ingram, Cooke, 1852. Online English 1852 edition at books.google.com. Archy Moore, the White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive. With a new introduction, prepared for this edition. New York: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856. (The first edition was published anonymously.)
• The People's Presidential Candidate, or, The Life of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, 1839. 3rd ed. 1840.
• The History of Banks: To Which Is Added, a Demonstration of the Advantages and Necessity of Free Competition in the Business of Banking. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1837. Online 1837 edition at books.google.com. Banks, Banking, and Paper Currencies. Revised and enlarged ed. Boston: Whipple and Damrell, 1840. (The first edition was published anonymously.)
• The Contrast; or, William Henry Harrison versus Martin Van Buren. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, 1840.
• Despotism in America; or, an Inquiry into the Nature and Results of the Slave-Holding System in the United States, by the Author of "Archy Moore". Boston: Whipple and Damrell, 1840. Despotism in America: An Inquiry into the Nature, Results, and Legal Basis of the Slave-Holding System in the United States. 3rd, revised and enlarged edition. Boston: John P. Jewett; New York: Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman, 1854. (The first edition was published anonymously.)
• A Letter to Andrews Norton on Miracles as the Foundation of Religious Faith. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, 1840. (Also in Pingel, American Utilitarian, 129-52.)
• Theory of Morals: An Inquiry Concerning the Law of Moral Distinctions and the Variations and Contradictions of Ethical Codes. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1844. Online edition at books.google.com
• The History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent to the Organization of Government under the Federal Constitution, 1497-1788. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1849.
• The History of the United States of America, from the Adoption of the Federal Constitution to the End of the Sixteenth Congress, 1788-1821. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1851-52.
  • The History of the United States of America. 6 vols. Revised edition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1856-1860. Online availability at books.google.com:
    • Volume 1 [1]
    • Volume 2 [2]
    • Volume 3 [3]
    • Volume 4 [4]
    • Volume 5 [5]
• Theory of Politics: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Governments and the Causes and Progress of Political Revolutions. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1853.
• Japan, as It Was, and Is. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1855. Japan and the Japanese. Revised, corrected and brought down to the present time by the author. Boston: Bradley, Dayton, 1860.

Secondary literature

• Baumgardt, David. "The Forgotten Moralist: Richard Hildreth's Theory of Morals," Ethics Vol. 57, No. 3 (Apr., 1947), pp. 191-198 in JSTOR
• Braeman, John. "Richard Hildreth." In Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 30: American Historians, 1607-1865, 116-33. Ed. by Clyde N. Wilson. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Company, 1984. (Good introduction.)
• Brandstadter, Evan. "Uncle Tom and Archy Moore: The Antislavery Novel as Ideological Symbol," American Quarterly Vol. 26, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 160-175 in JSTOR
• Emerson, Donald E. Richard Hildreth Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1946. in QUESTIA
• Emerson, Donald E. "Hildreth, Draper, and 'Scientific History'." In Historiography and Urbanization: Essays in American History in Honor of W. Stull Holt, 139-70. Ed. by Eric F. Goldman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1941.
• Friedland, Louis S. "Richard Hildreth's Minor Works." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 40 (First quarter 1946):127-50. (With a "Bibliography of Richard Hildreth's Minor Works," 139-50.)
• Harmond, Richard. "The Maverick and the Red Man: Richard Hildreth Views the American Indian" The History Teacher Vol. 7, No. 1 (Nov., 1973), pp. 37-47 in JSTOR
• Kelly, Alfred H. "Richard Hildreth." In The Marcus W. Jernegan Essays in American Historiography, 25-42. Ed. by William T. Hutchinson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937.
• Oard, Ronald Joseph. "Bancroft and Hildreth: A Critical Evaluation." Ph.D. dissertation, St. Louis University, 1961.
• Pingel, Martha M. An American Utilitarian: Richard Hildreth as a Philosopher. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. [With a disappointing introduction by the editor, 3-39; contains unpublished manuscripts of Hildreth's "Theory of Wealth", 44-74, and his "Theory of Taste", 75-120, and some minor writings, also some of Hildreth's polemical writings, for example those against George Bancroft.)
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. "The Problem of Richard Hildreth." New England Quarterly 13, no. 2 (June 1940):223-45. in JSTOR
• Wish, Harvey. The American Historian: A Social-Intellectual History of the Writing of the American Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. (Chapter 4 on Hildreth.) in QUESTIA