Noah Webster/Bibliography

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• Austin Nathan W., "Lost in the Maze of Words: Reading and Re-reading Noah Webster's Dictionaries," Dissertation Abstracts International, 2005, Vol. 65 Issue 12, p. 4561
• "Noah Webster" in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). vol 18 section 25:33 online edition
• Bynack, Vincent P. "Noah Webster and the Idea of a National Culture: the Pathologies of Epistemology." Journal of the History of Ideas 1984 45(1): 99-114. Issn: 0022-5037 Fulltext in Jstor
• Ellis, Joseph J. After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture 1979. chapter 6, interpretive essay online edition
• Gallardo, Andres. "The Standardization of American English." PhD dissertation State U. of New York, Buffalo 1980. 367 pp. DAI 1981 41(8): 3557-A. 8104193, focused on Webster's dictionary
• Kendall, Joshua, The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture. (2011) ISBN 0399156992 Reviewed in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, May 2011
• Lepore, Jill. "Noah's Mark: Webster and the original dictionary wars." The New Yorker, (November 6, 2006). 78-87.
• Malone, Kemp. "Webster, Noah," Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 10 (1936)
• Micklethwait, David. Noah Webster and the American Dictionary (2005)
• Morgan, John S. Noah Webster (1975), popular biography
• Moss, Richard J. Noah Webster. Twayne, 1984. 131 pp.
• Nelson, C. Louise. "Neglect of Economic Education in Webster's 'Blue-Backed Speller'" American Economist, Vol. 39, 1995 online edition
• Rollins, Richard. The Long Journey of Noah Webster (1980) (ISBN 0-8122-7778-3)
• Rollins, Richard M. "Words as Social Control: Noah Webster and the Creation of the American Dictionary." American Quarterly 1976 28(4): 415-430. Issn: 0003-0678 in Jstor
• Scudder, Horace Elisha. Noah Webster (1885) 302 pages online edition
• Snyder, K. Alan. Defining Noah Webster: Mind and Morals in the Early Republic. University Press of America, 1990. 421 pp.
• Southard, Bruce. "Noah Webster: America's Forgotten Linguist." American Speech 1979 54(1): 12-22. Issn: 0003-1283 in Jstor
• Unger, Harlow Giles. Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot (1998), scholarly biography
• Warfel, Harry R. Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America (1936), standard biography

Primary sources

• Babbidge, Homer D. Jr., ed., Noah Webster: On Being American (1967), selections from his writings
• Carpenter, Edwin A. A Bibliography of the Writings of Noah Webster (1958)
• Warfel, Harry R. ed., Letters of Noah Webster (1953),
• Webster, Noah. The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language for the Use of Schools in the United States by Noah Webster (1999 reprint)
• Webster, Noah. The Autobiographies of Noah Webster: From the Letters and Essays, Memoir, and Diary. edited by Richard M. Rollins, U. of South Carolina Press, 1989. 378 pp.
• Webster, Noah, "American Dictionary of the English Language". Facsimile reprint (1967) of first edition. ISBN 091249803X