1854 To 1900
- Calhoun, Charles W. From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age (2011) excerpt and text search
- Dearing, Mary. Veterans in Politics: The Story of the GAR (1952)
- DeSantis, Vincent P. Republicans Face the Southern Question: The New Departure Years, 1877-1897 (1959)
- Donald, David. Lincoln (1999)
- Edwards, Rebecca. Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997)
- Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970), history of ideas and ideology
- Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 (1987), quantitative voting studies, by state
- Gienapp, William E. "Nativism and the Creation of a Republican Majority in the North Before the Civil War", Journal of American History 72 (Dec. 1985): 529-59 in JSTOR
- Hesseltine, William B. Ulysses S. Grant: Politician (1935)
- Holt, Michael F. "Review: The New Political History and the Civil War Era," Reviews in American History Vol. 13, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 60-69 in JSTOR
- Hoogenboom, Ari. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President (1995).
- Jensen, Richard. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971)
- Jordan, David. Roscoe Conkling of New York: Voice in the Senate (1971).
- Kehl, James A. Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt Quay of Pennsylvania (1981)
- Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America (1977). details on the rules of the game in politics
- Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures (1979), analysis of voting behavior, with emphasis on region, ethnicity, religion and class.
- McKinney, Gordon B. Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community 1978.
- Marcus, Robert. Grand Old Party: Political Structure in the Gilded Age, 1880-1896 1971.
- Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley; National Party Politics, 1877-1896 (1969)
- Morgan, H. Wayne. William McKinley and His America 1963.
- Muzzey, David Saville. James G. Blaine: A Political Idol of Other Days 1934.
- Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union 8 vol (1947–77); highly detailed narrative of national politics and Civil War, 1848–65, by leading scholar
- Paludin, Philip. A People's Contest: The Union and the Civil War, 1861-1865 1988.
- Polakoff, Keith Ian. The Politics of Inertia: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction 1973.
- Rhodes, James Ford. The History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 8 vol (1932), narrative, 1850–1909
- Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (1997)
- Robinson, William A. Thomas B. Reed, Parliamentarian 1930.
- Silbey, Joel H. The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 (1991)
- Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Rum, Romanism & Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000)
- Van Deusen, Glyndon G. Horace Greeley, Nineteenth-Century Crusader (1953)
- Welch, Richard E. George Frisbie Hoar and the Half Breed Republicans 1971.
- Williams, R. Hal. Years of Decision: American Politics in the 1890s. 1978.
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