Works
- Bancroft, George. History of the United States of America, from the discovery of the American continent. (Boston: Little, Brown, and company, numerous editions in 8 or 10 volumes 1854-78). online edition
- Bancroft, George; Dyer, Oliver, 1824-1907. (1891) History of the battle of Lake Erie: and miscellaneous papers (New York: R. Bonner's sons) 292 pp. at American Library Association.
His minor publications include:
- An Oration delivered on the 4th of July, 1826, at Northampton, Mass. (Northampton, 1826)
- History of the Political System of Europe, translated from Heeren (1829)
- An Oration delivered before the Democracy of Springfield and Neighboring Towns, July 4, 1836 (2d ed., with prefatory remarks, Springfield, 1836)
- History of the Colonization of the United States (Boston, 1841, 12mo, abridged)
- An Oration delivered at the Commemoration, in Washington, of the Death of Andrew Jackson, June 27, 1845
- The Necessity, the Reality, and the Promise of the Progress of the Human Race
- An Oration delivered before the New York Historical Society, November 20, 1854 (New York, 1854)
- Proceedings of the First Assembly of Virginia, 1619; Communicated, with an Introductory Note, by George Bancroft
- Collections of the New York Historical Society, second series, vol. iii., part i. (New York, 1857)
- Literary and Historical Miscellanies (New York, 1855)
- Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln, delivered at the request of both Houses of the Congress of America, before them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866 (Washington, 1866)
- A Plea for the Constitution of the United States of America, Wounded in the House of its Guardians
- Veritati Unice Litarem (New York, 1886)
Among his other speeches and addresses may be mentioned a lecture on “The Culture, the Support, and the Object of Art in a Republic,” in the course of the New York Historical Society in 1852; and one on “The Office, Appropriate Culture, and Duty of the Mechanic.”
Bancroft contributed a biography of Jonathan Edwards to the American Cyclopædia.
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