NAVAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHIES, NO. 1
NAVAL HISTORY BY PERIOD
Quasi-War With France and Barbary Wars
Allen, Gardner W. Our Naval War With France. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1909. 323 pp. (Reprinted 1967 by Shoestring).
-----. Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1905. 354 pp. (Reprinted 1965 by Shoestring).
Carr, James A. "John Adams and the Barbary Problem: The Myth
and the Record." American Neptune 26 (October 1966):
231-257.
Chidsey, Donald B. The Wars in Barbary: Arab Piracy and the
Birth of the United States Navy. New York: Crown, 1971. 165
pp.
Dearborn, Henry A. The Life of William Bainbridge, Esq. of
the United States Navy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press,
1931. 218 pp.
DeConde, Alexander. The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy
of the Undeclared War With France, 1797-1801. New York: Scribner,
1966. 498 pp.
Estes, Worth J. "A Naval Surgeon in the Barbary Wars: Dr.
Peter St. Medard on New York, 1802-3." In New Aspects
of Naval History: Selected Papers From the Fifth Naval History
Symposium, edited by Department of History, U.S. Naval Academy,
81-92. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co., 1985.
Ferguson, Eugene S. Truxtun of the Constellation: The Life
of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S. Navy, 1775-1822. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1956. 322 pp. (Reprinted 1982 by Naval
Institute Press).
Lewis, Charles L. The Romantic Decatur. Philadelphia: Univ.
of Pennsylvania Press, 1937. 296 pp.
Mackenzie, Alexander S. Life of Stephen Decatur, a Commodore
in the Navy of the United States. Boston: Little, Brown, 1846.
443 pp.
Nash, Howard P. The Forgotten Wars: The Role of the U.S. Navy
in the Quasi War With France and the Barbary Wars, 1798-1805.
New York: A. S. Barnes, 1968. 308 pp.
Palmer, Michael A. Stoddert's War: Naval Operations During
the Quasi-War With France, 1798-1801. Columbia: Univ. of South
Carolina Press, 1987. 313 pp.
Tucker, Glenn. Dawn Like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the
Birth of the U.S. Navy. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1963.
487 pp.
U.S. Office of Naval Records and Library. Naval Documents Related
to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France: Naval Operations
From February, 1797 to December 1801. Washington: GPO, 1935-38.
7 vols.
Vol. 1, Feb. 1797-Oct. 1798; Vol. 2, Nov. 1798-Mar 1799; Vol. 3, Apr. 1799-July 1799; Vol. 4, Aug. 1799-Dec. 1799; Vol. 5, Jan. 1800-May 1800; Vol. 6, June 1800-Nov. 1800; Vol. 7, Dec. 1800-Dec. 1801.
-----. Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars
With the Barbary Powers: Naval Operations Including Diplomatic
Background From 1785 Through 1807. Washington: GPO, 1939-44.
6 vols.
Vol. 1, 1785-1801; Vol. 2, Jan 1802-Aug. 1803; Vol. 3, Sept. 1803-Mar. 1804; Vol. 4, Apr. 1804-Sept. 6, 1804; Vol. 5, Sept. 7, 1804-Apr. 1805; Vol. 6, 1805-1807: Personnel and Ships' Data, 1801-1807.