American election campaigns, 19th century/Bibliography

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• Baker, Jean. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Cornell University Press, 1983.
• Campbell, Tracy. Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition-1742-2004 (2005) excerpt and text search
• Carwardine, Richard. "Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate: the White House and the Press During the American Civil War." American Nineteenth Century History 2006 7(1): 1-27. Issn: 1466-4658 Fulltext: Ebsco
• Clubb, Jerome M., William H. Flanigan, Nancy H. Zingale. Partisan Realignment: Voters, Parties, and Government in American History (1990)
• Dinkin, Robert J. Campaigning in America: A History of Election Practice 1989.
• Ellis, Richard J. and Kirk, Stephen. "Presidential Mandates in the Nineteenth Century: Conceptual Change and Institutional Development" Studies in American Political Development 1995 9(1): 117-186. Issn: 0898-588x
• Gerring, John. Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996 1998.
• Gienap, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. 1987.
• Gould, Lewis L. Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans, 2003.
• Jensen, Richard J. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971)
• Jensen, Richard. "Armies, Admen, and Crusaders: Types of Presidential Election Campaigns," The History Teacher, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Jan., 1969), pp. 33-50 in JSTOR
• Josephson, Matthew, The Politicos: 1865–1896. (1938)
• Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America, (1977)
• Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures, (1979) online edition
• Lynch, G. Patrick "U.S. Presidential Elections in the Nineteenth Century: Why Culture and the Economy Both Mattered." Polity 35#1 (2002) pp 29+. online version, focus on 1884
• McCormick, Richard P. The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era University of North Carolina Press, 1966.
• Maisel, L. Sandy, ed. Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia. 2 vol Garland, 1991.
• Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877–1896 (1969) online edition
• Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Roosevelt-Taft Administration, 1920. 8 vols.
• Rosenof, Theodore . Realignment: The Theory That Changed the Way We Think about American Politics (2003)
• Arthur Schlesinger and Fred Israel (eds.) History of Presidential Elections: Volume III 1848-1896, ed. 1971),
• Shafer, Byron E. and Anthony J. Badger, eds. Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000 (2001), long 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; etc.
• Silbey, Joel. The American Political Nation, 1838-1893. Stanford University Press, 1991. online edition
• Mark Wahlgren Summers. Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000)online version