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Cresson, William P. James Monroe (1946). 577 pp. good scholarly biography
Cunningham, Noble E. Jr. (1996). The Presidency of James Monroe.. 246 pp. standard scholarly survey
Dangerfield, George (1965). The Awakening of American Nationalism: 1815–1828. Harper and Rowe. ISBN 978-0-88133-823-2.
Hammond, John Craig (March 2019). "President, Planter, Politician: James Monroe, the Missouri Crisis, and the Politics of Slavery" (PDF). Journal of American History. 105 (3): 843–67. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaz002.
Hart, Gary (2005). James Monroe. Henry Holy and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-6960-0. superficial, short, popular biography
Haworth, Peter Daniel. "James Madison and James Monroe Historiography: A Tale of Two Divergent Bodies of Scholarship."in A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe (2013): 521–539.
Howe, Daniel Walker (2007). What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507894-7. Pulitzer Prize; a sweeping interpretation of the era
Holmes, David L. The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, May 2006, online version
Johnson, Allen (1915). Union and Democracy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Leibiger, Stuart, ed. A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe (2012) excerpt; emphasis on historiography
May, Ernest R. The Making of the Monroe Doctrine (1975).
Perkins, Dexter. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823–1826 (1927).
Poston, Brook. 