Richard Hofstadter - Published Works

Published Works

• "The Tariff Issue on the Eve of the Civil War," The American Historical Review Vol. 44, No. 1 (Oct., 1938), pp. 50–55 full text in JSTOR
• "William Graham Sumner, Social Darwinist," The New England Quarterly Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1941), pp. 457–477 online at JSTOR
• "Parrington and the Jeffersonian Tradition," Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 2, No. 4 (Oct., 1941), pp. 391–400 JSTOR
• "William Leggett, Spokesman of Jacksonian Democracy," Political Science Quarterly Vol. 58, No. 4 (Dec., 1943), pp. 581–594 JSTOR
• "U. B. Phillips and The Plantation Legend," The Journal of Negro History Vol. 29, No. 2 (Apr., 1944), pp. 109–124 JSTOR
• Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); 1992 edition with preface by Eric Foner. ISBN 978-0-8070-5503-8
• The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1948). online edition
• "Beard and the Constitution: The History of an Idea," American Quarterly Vol. 2, No. 3 (Autumn, 1950), pp. 195–213 JSTOR
• The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R (New York: Knopf, 1955). online edition
• The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955). (with Walter P. Metzger) OCLC 175391

• Hofstadter's contribution was published separately as Academic Freedom in the Age of the College, Columbia University Press, 1955, 1961.

• The United States: the History of a Republic (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall, 1957), college textbook; several editions; coauthored with Daniel Aaron and William Miller
• Anti-intellectualism in American Life (New York: Knopf, 1963).
• The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963). edited excerpts. OCLC 265628
• The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays (New York: Knopf, 1965). ISBN 978-0-226-34817-9
  • includes "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", Harper's Magazine (1964)
• The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (New York: Knopf, 1968).
• The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969).
• American Violence: A Documentary History. co-edited with Mike Wallace (1970) ISBN 978-0-394-41486-7
• America at 1750: A Social Portrait (1971)