David Ramsay/Bibliography
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Main Works
- Ramsay, David. The History of the American Revolution. 2 vols. Philadelphia: R. Aitken and Son, 1789. Online excerpt Reprint edition [with original paging], with a foreword by Lester H. Cohen. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1990. Online edition
- Ramsay, David. Ramsay's History of South Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808 (1858) online edition
- Ramsay, David. Memoirs of the Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay (1812) online edition
- Ramsay, David. The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America (1811) online edition
Secondary sources
- Cohen, Lester H. The Revolutionary Histories: Contemporary Narratives of the American Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1980.
- Cohen, Lester H. "Creating a Usable Future: The Revolutionary Historians and the National Past." In The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits, 309-30. Ed. by Jack P. Greene. New York: New York University Press, 1987.
- Messer, Peter C. "From a Revolutionary History to a History of Revolution: David Ramsay and the American Revolution." Journal of the Early Republic 22, no. 2 (2002):205-233. ISSN: 0275-1275 in JSTOR
- O'Brien, Karen. "David Ramsay and the Delayed Americanization of American History." Early American Literature 29, no. 1 (1994):1-18. ISSN: 0012-8163 in EBSCO
- Shaffer, Arthur. To Be an American: David Ramsay and the Making of the American Consciousness. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
- Smith, Page. "David Ramsay and the Causes of the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 17, no. 1 (Jan. 1960):51-77. in JSTOR
- Smith, William Raymond. History as Argument: Three Patriot Historians of the American Revolution. The Hague: Mouton, 1966. (On Ramsay, Warren und Marshall.)