Select Bibliography on George Washington

[Articles and Chapters]

Compiled by Professor Peter Henriques

 

Bill Abbot, “An Uncommon Awareness of Self: The Papers of GW”, Prologue, V. 21, (1989), 7-19. On the web.

Henry Adams, Democracy [parts on GW symposium]

Daniel Boorstin, “The Mythologizing of GW” in The Americans: The National Experience, p.337-56.

Kenneth Bowling, “An Extraordinary Man: A Review Essay on GW”,Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1990, pp. 287-93.

Harold W. Bradley, “the Political Thinking of GW’, Journal of Social History, 1945, 469-86.

Marcus Cunliffe, “Symbols we Made of GW”, Smithsonian,1981, 74-81.

Marcus Cunliffe, “The Two Georges, Am. Studies International 24 (1986), 53-73.

Dick Dabney, “George Washington Reconsidered”. Xerox available.

Robert Dalzell, “Constructing Independence: Monticello, Mount Vernon and the Men Who Built them”, 18th Century Studies, 1993, pp.543-80.

James Flexner, “The Miraclous care of Prvidence’: GW’s Narrow Escapes, Amer. Heritage, 1982, 33[2], 82-85.

James Flexner, “GW: Businessman” Amer. Heritage, 1965 n.6, 94-8.

Lawrence Friedman, “The Flawless American” in Inventors of the Promised Land, pp.44-78.

Edwin Gaustad, “Disciples of Reason”, Christian History, 1996 15 (2), 28-31.

Norma Granley, “A Certain Specie of Property Which I Possess…”: GW as a Slaveholder”, Northern Virginia Heritage, June, 1985.

Robert Hay, “George Washington: American Moses” American Quarterly 21 (1969), 780-91.

Peter Henriques, "An Uneven Friendship: The Relationship between George Washington and George Mason", VMHB, April 1989, 204f.

Peter Henriques, ed., “Nicholas Cresswell on GW: A Tory View of America’s Hero, Northern Virginia Heritage, Oct., 1984.

Peter Henriques, “The Amiable Washington”, Northern Virginia Heritage, Feb., 1979.

Peter Henriques, “The Final Struggle Between GW and the ‘Grim King’: Washington’s Attitude Toward Death and Afterlife”, Forthcoming. Xerox.

Peter Henriques, “The George Washington – William Payne Fight: A New Explanation”, Northern Virginia Heritage, Oct., 1983.

Peter Henriques, "Major Lawrence Washington vs. the Reverend Charles Green: A Case Study of the Squire and the Parson", VMHB, April, 1992, 233-64.

Don Higginbotham, "The Washington Theme in Recent Historical Literature", Penn. Magazine of History and Bio. (1990), 423-437.

Don Higginbotham, GW & George Marshall, Harmon Lect. Military History 1984, 1-22.

Don Higginbotham, "George Washington's Contributions to Constitutionalism"in his book, War and Society in Revolutionary America.

Arthur Holcombe, "The Role of Washington in the Framing of the Constitution", The Huntington Library Quarterly, August, 1956.

D. James Kennedy, “The Faith of Washington”, copy at Mount Vernon.

Seymour Lipset, “GW and the Founding of Democracy”, Journal of Democracy (1998) [9.4], 24-38 On the web.

Longmore, “The Enigma of GW: How did the Man become the Myth?” Reviews in Am. Hist 85 13 (2) 184-90. On the web.

Richard Loss, “The Political Thought of GW”, Pres. Studies Quarterly, Summer, 1989, c.p.480ff.

Pauline Maier, “Good Show: GW Plays GW” Reviews in Am. History, 1989[17.2], 187-98 . On the web.

Bernard Mayo, Myths and Men ( Chapter on Washington)

Edmund Morgan, “The Aloof American”, VQR, 1976, 41-36

Samuel Eliot Morison, “The Young Man Washington”, in Smith, GW: A Profile, pp. 38-58

Saul K. Padover, “GW- Portrait of a True Conservative”, Social Research, 1955, 199-222.

Glenn Phelps, ‘GW and Paradox of Party”, Pres. Studies Quarterly, Fall 1989, 733ff.

Stephen Presser, “The Restoration of GW”, Reviews in Am. History, 1997 [25.4], 545-52. On the web.

Bruce Ragsdale, "George Washington, the British Tobacco Trade, and Economic Opportunity in pre-Revolutionary Virginia", VMHB, April, 1989, 133-62.

John Remsberg, “George Washington as a Freethinker”. On the web.

Clinton Rossiter, The American Presidency, pp.1-88.

Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War, pp. 178-89; 255-65.

Barry Schwartz, “The Character of Washington: A Study in Republican Culture”, American Quarterly, 1986, pp. 202-22.

Barry Schwartz, “Social Change and Collective Memory: The Democraitzation of GW”, American Sociological Review, 1991, pp.221-36.

Richard Norton Smith "The Surprising George Washington" Prolgue, Vol 26 (1994), 6-15. On the web.

James H. Smylies, “The President as Republican Prophet and King: Clerical Reflections on the Death of Washington”, J. of Church and State, 1976, 233ff.

James D. Tagg, “Benjamin Franklin Bache’s Attack on GW”, Penn Mag. Of History and Bio., 100, April, 1976.

Dorothy Twohig, “That Species of Property”: GW’s Role in the Controversy Over Slavery”. On the web.

Dixon Wecter, “President Washington and Parson Weems” in The Hero in America, pp.99-147.

Gordon Wood, "The Greatness of George Washington", Virginia Quarterly Review,Spring, 1992, 189-207.

Northern Virginia Heritage, Oct., 1982 has several brief articles on GW.

“Red men, Princess Pocahontas, &GW, Western Hist. Quarterly, v.29, n.1 Spring 98, 48-85.

“Conway Cabal” Amer. Heritage, v.46, n.1 Feb-Mar., 95, 84-91.

“Who was Washington” Amer. Heritage, V.44, n.1 Feb –Mar, 1993, 16.

“GW & the West’, Journal of the West, v. 31.n.3, July 92, 7-12.

“Candidate Washington”, Amer. Heritage, V443, n3, May-June 92, 12.

 

Additions

Edgar Richardson, John Trumbull’s “Washington at Verplanck’s Point, Winerthur Portfolio III, (1967) 1-23

Ulysse Desportes, “Giuseppe Ceracchi in America and his Busts of GW”, Art Quarterly, 1963, 141-78

John S. Hallam, “Houdon’s Richmond Statue of Washington”, American Art Jounral, 1978, 73-80