Third Party System/Bibliography

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• Bensel, Richard Franklin. The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (2000) excerpt and text search
• Bryce, James. American Commonwealth 2 vol (1888) remarkably detailed analysis of how politics worked online edition vol 1 and q
• Calhoun, Charles W. The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America (2006)
• Campbell, James E., "Party Systems and Realignments in the United States, 1868–2004," Social Science History, 30 (Fall 2006), 359–86.
• Campbell, Tracy. Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition-1742-2004 (2005) excerpt and text search
• De Santis, Vincent P. "The Republican Party and the Southern Negro, 1877-1897." The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 45, No. 2, (1960) pp 71-87 in JSTOR
• De Santis, Vincent P. "The Political Life of the Gilded Age: A Review of the Recent Literature" The History Teacher, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Nov., 1975), pp. 73-106 in JSTOR
• Dinkin, Robert J. Campaigning in America: A History of Election Practices. (1989) online edition
• Dozer, D. M. "Benjamin Harrison and the Presidential Campaign of 1892," in American Historical Review 54, no. 1 (1948) in JSTOR
• Earle, Jonathan H. Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824–1854 (2004). Pp. 282. excerpt and text search
• Faulkner, Harold U.; Politics, Reform, and Expansion, 1890-1900 (1959), scholarly survey, strong on economic and political history online edition
• Fine, Sidney. Laissez Faire and the General-Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865–1901. University of Michigan Press, 1956. History of ideas
• Foner, Eric Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (1995). excerpt and text search; online complete edition
• Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988) excerpt and text search
• Garraty, John A. The New Commonwealth, 1877-1890, (1968)scholarly survey, strong on economic and political history
• Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. 1987. excerpt and text search
• Gienapp, William E. "Politics Seem to Enter into Everything": Political Culture in the North, 1840-1860," in Gienapp et al, eds. Essays on American Antebellum Politics, 1840-1860 (1982) online edition pp 15-79
• Hansen, Stephen L. The Making of the Third Party System: Voters and Parties in Illinois, 1850-1876. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980. 280 pp.
• Holt, Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1850s (1978).
• Holt, Michael F. The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War (2005) excerpt and text search
• Holt, Michael F. "The Primacy of Party Reasserted." Journal of American History 1999 86(1): 151-157. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext online in History Cooperative, Jstor and Ebsco
• James, Scott C. Presidents, Parties, and the State: A Party System Perspective on Democratic Regulatory Choice, 1884-1936. Cambridge U. Press, 2000. 307 pp. excerpt and text search
• Jensen, Richard. "Democracy, Republicanism and Efficiency: The Values of American Politics, 1885-1930," in Byron Shafer and Anthony Badger, eds, Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000 (U of Kansas Press, 2001) pp 149-180; online version
• Jensen, Richard. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971)
• Josephson, Matthew. The Politicos: 1865-1896 1938. entertaining narrative of national politics
• Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America 1977. In depth analysis of all political rules
• Keller, Morton. America's Three Regimes: A New Political History (2007) 384pp.
• Kleppner; Paul. The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures (1979), the most important and detailed analysis of voting behavior. online edition
• Kornblith, Gary J. "Rethinking the Coming of the Civil War: a Counterfactual Exercise." Journal of American History 2003 90(1): 76-105. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: History Cooperative
• 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
• McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003) excerpt and text search
• Miller, Worth Robert. "The Lost World of Gilded Age Politics," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era vol 1, no. 1 (January 2002): 49-67, online edition
• Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877-1896 (1969) online edition
• Ostrogorski, M. Democracy and the Party System in the United States, (1910) classic analysis, emphasizing party operations and corruption; online edition
• Pessen, Edward. Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics (1985) excerpt and text search
• Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision (2007) excerpt and text search
• Potter, David. The Impending Crisis 1848–1861. (1976), Pulitzer prize; excerpt and text search
• Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Roosevelt-Taft Administration (1920), 8 vol. highly detailed narrative from 1850 to 1909
• Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur M. ed. History of American Presidential Elections. 4 vols. 1971.
• Silbey, Joel. The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 (1991). online edition
• Smith, Adam I. P. No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North (2006)excerpt and text search
• Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000) online edition
• Voss-Hubbard, Mark. "The 'Third Party Tradition' Reconsidered: Third Parties and American Public Life, 1830-1900." Journal of American History 1999 86(1): 121-150. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: online JSTOR
• Voss-Hubbard, Mark. Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War (2002) excerpt and text search

Primary sources

• Silbey, Joel H., ed. The American party battle: election campaign pamphlets, 1828-1876 (2 vol 1999) in ACLS E-Books online edition vol 2