by Lynne Cheney
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Selected Articles
Adair, Douglass. “The Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 1, no. 2 (April 1944): 97–122.
———. “‘That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science’: David Hume, James Madison, and the Tenth Federalist.” Huntington Library Quarterly 20, no. 4 (Aug. 1957): 343–60.
“After-Dinner Anecdotes of James Madison: Excerpt from Jared Sparks’ Journal for 1829–31.” Edited by “CC” Proctor. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 60, no. 2 (April 1952): 255–65.
Barry, William T. “Letters of William T. Barry.” William and Mary Quarterly 13, no. 4 (April 1905): 236–44.
Bennett, Robert W. “The Problem of the Faithless Elector: Trouble Aplenty Brewing Just Below the Surface in Choosing the President.” Northwestern University Law Review 100, no. 1 (2006): 121–30.
Black, Jeremy. “A British View of the Naval War of 1812.” Naval History Magazine 22, no. 4 (Aug. 2008). http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2008-08/british-view-naval-war-1812.
Brant, Irving. “Edmund Randolph, Not Guilty!” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 7, no. 2 (April 1950): 179–98.
Bruff, Harold H. “The Federalist Papers: The Framers Construct an Orrery.” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 16, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 7–12.
Butterfield, Lyman H. “Elder John Leland, Jeffersonian Itinerant.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 62, pt. 2 (Oct. 1952): 155–242.
Coles, Edward. “Letters of Edward Coles.” William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., 7, no. 3 (July 1927): 158–73.
Crary, Catherine Snell. “The Tory and the Spy: The Double Life of James Rivington.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 16, no. 1 (Jan. 1959): 61–72.
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. “John Beckley: An Early American Party Manager.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 13, no. 1 (Jan. 1956): 40–52.
Dietsch, Deborah K. “Brookeville’s James Madison House Is Historic Home Contest Winner.” Washington Post, Oct. 19, 2012. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-10-19/news/35500457_1_madison-house-white-house-original-features.
“Edmund Randolph’s Essay on the Revolutionary History of Virginia (1774–1782).” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 43, no. 2 (April 1935): 113, 115–38; 43, no. 4 (Oct. 1935): 294–315; 44, no. 1 (Jan. 1936): 35–50.
“Events of the War.” Niles’ Weekly Register, Feb. 4, 1815, 356–66.
Few, Frances. “The Diary of Frances Few, 1808–1809.” Edited by Noble E. Cunningham Jr. Journal of Southern History 29, no. 3 (Aug. 1963): 345–61.
Forte, David F. “Marbury’s Travail: Federalist Politics and William Marbury’s Appointment as Justice of the Peace.” Catholic University Law Review 45, no. 2 (1996): 349–402.
Haggard, Stephen, Andrew MacIntyre, and Lydia Tiede. “The Rule of Law and Economic Development.” Annual Review of Political Science, no. 11 (2008): 205–43.
Hildt, John C. “Letters Relating to the Capture of Washington.” South Atlantic Quarterly 6 (Jan.–Oct. 1907): 58–66.
Hunt, Gaillard. “The First Inauguration Ball.” Century Magazine, March 1905, 754–59. http://www.unz.org/Pub/Century-1905mar-00754.
“James Madison’s Autobiography.” Edited by Douglass Adair. William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 2, no. 2 (April 1945): 191–209.
Ketcham, Ralph L. “The Dictates of Conscience: Edward Coles and Slavery.” Virginia Quarterly Review 36, no. 1 (Winter 1960): 46–62.
———, ed. “An Unpublished Sketch of James Madison by James K. Paulding.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 67, no. 4 (Oct. 1959): 432–37.
Koch, Adrienne, and Harry Ammon. “The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: An Episode in Jefferson’s and Madison’s Defense of Civil Liberties.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 5, no. 2 (April 1948): 145–76.
Madison, James. “Speeches Made in the Senate of the United States, on Occasion of the Resolution Offered by Mr. Foot, on the Subject of the Public Lands, During the First Session of the Twenty-first Congress.” North American Review 31, no. 69 (Oct. 1830): 462–546.
Marsh, Philip. “Freneau and Jefferson: The Poet-Editor Speaks for Himself About the National Gazette Episode.” American Literature 8, no. 2 (May 1936): 180–89.
———. “Hamilton and Monroe.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 34, no. 3 (Dec. 1947): 459–68.
“Meteorological Observations.” Columbian Magazine, June 1787, 2.
Mitchill, Samuel Latham. “Dr. Mitchill’s Letters from Washington: 1801–1813.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, April 1879, 740–55.
Moffatt, L. G., and J. M. Carrière. “A Frenchman Visits Norfolk, Fredericksburg, and Orange County, 1816.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 53, no. 3 (July 1945): 197–214.
Monkman, Betty C. “The White House Collection: Reminders of 1814.” White House History, no. 4 (Fall 1998): 33–37.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. “The Henry-Crillon Affair of 1812.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd ser., 69 (Oct. 1947–May 1950): 207–31.
“Notes and Queries.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 6, no. 4 (April 1899): 429–36.
Ohline, Howard A. “Slavery, Economics, and Congressional Politics, 1790.” Journal of Southern History 46, no. 3 (Aug. 1980): 335–60.
Pasley, Jefferson L. “‘A Journeyman, Either in Law or Politics’: John Beckley and the Social Origins of Political Campaigning.” Journal of the Early Republic 16, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 531–69.
Powell, J. H. “Some Unpublished Correspondence of John Adams and Richard Rush, 1811–1816.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 60, no. 4 (Oct. 1936): 419–54.
———. “Some Unpublished Correspondence of John Adams and Richard Rush, 1811–1816, II.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 61, no. 1 (
Jan. 1937): 26–53.
“Randolph and Tucker Letters.” Contributed by Mrs. George P. Coleman. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 43, no. 1 (Jan. 1935): 41–46.
Ruegsegger, Gary. “Finally, 1813 Battle Gets Some Respect.” Virginian-Pilot, June 24, 2008. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/06/finally-1813-battle-gets-some-respect.
Scarberry, Mark S. “John Leland and James Madison: Religious Influence on the Ratification of the Constitution and on the Proposal of the Bill of Rights.” Penn State Law Review 113, no. 3 (April 2009): 733–800.
Shulman, Holly C. “‘A Constant Attention’: Dolley Madison and the Publication of the Papers of James Madison, 1836–1837.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 118, no. 1 (2010): 41–70.
———. “Madison v. Madison.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 119, no. 4 (Sept. 2011): 350–93.
Slaughter, Jane C. “Anne Mercer Slaughter: A Sketch.” Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine 19 (July 1937): 30–44.
Slosberg, Steven. “Site Lines: The Mysterious Blue Lights.” Connecticuthistory.org. http://connecticuthistory.org/site-lines-the-mysterious-blue-lights/.
Smith, William Loughton. “The Letters of William Loughton Smith to Edward Rutledge: June 8, 1789, to April 28, 1794.” Edited by George C. Rogers Jr. South Carolina Historical Magazine 69, no. 2 (Jan. 1968): 1–25; (April 1968): 101–38.
Stagg, J. C. A. “Between Black Rock and a Hard Place: Peter B. Porter’s Plan for an American Invasion of Canada in 1812.” Journal of the Early Republic 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1999): 385–422.
Theobald, Mary Miley. “The Monstrous Absurdity: The Gunpowder Theft Examined.” Colonial Williamsburg Journal (Summer 2006). http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Summer06/plots.cfm.
Thomas, William H. B. “Politics in Colonial Orange County.” Bicentennial Series, no. 6 (April 1976).
Thornton, Anna. “Diary of Mrs. William Thornton: Capture of Washington by the British.” Edited by Wilhemus B. Bryan. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 19 (1916): 172–82.