Berry, Faith, ed. From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700-1918. New York: Continuum, 2001.

“Jupiter Hammon.” Lloyd Harbor Historical Society. Accessed July 12, 2025. https://lloydharborhistoricalsociety.org/jupiter-hammon/.

May, Cedrick, ed. The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon: Poems and Essays. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2017.

“The Life and Works of Jupiter Hammon (1711–Before 1806).” Preservation Long Island. Accessed July 9, 2025. https://preservationlongisland.org/the-life-and-works-of-jupiter-hammon-1711-before-1806/.

Additional Resources

“Jupiter Hammon.” The Decorative Arts Trust. Accessed July 9, 2025. https://decorativeartstrust.org/jupiter-hammon/.

“Jupiter Hammon.” Poetry Foundation. Accessed July 12, 2025. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jupiter-hammon.

“Jupiter Hammon.” Poets.org.: Academy of American Poets. Accessed July 3, 2025. https://poets.org/poet/jupiter-hammon.

“Jupiter Hammon’s Story.” Treasures of New York. PBS LearningMedia. Accessed July 12, 2025. https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/jupiter-hammon-story-video-gallery/treasures-new-york/.

Babbidge, Homer D. On Being American. Edited by Roger Whitlow. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1975.

Unger, Harlow Giles. The Life and Times of Noah Webster: An American Patriot. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Scudder, Horace E. Noah Webster. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.

Chervinsky, Lindsay M. Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Webster, Noah. The Autobiographies of Noah Webster: From the Letters and Essays, Memoir, and Diary. Edited by Richard M. Rollins. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

Rollins, Richard M. The Long Journey of Noah Webster. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980.

Web Sources

“Effects of slavery, on morals and industry. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esq. Counsellor at law and member of the Connecticut Society for ehe [sic] Promotion of Freedom. ; [Two lines from Shakespeare].” In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection.

https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N20179.0001.001.

University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 23, 2025.content_copy

 

Webster, Noah Jr –“An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia, with Answers to the Principal Objections That Have Been Raised Against the System, by a Citizen of America”.  (1787)    https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-citizen-of-america-an-examination-into-the-leading-principles-of-america/

Major Works

Novels

True Confessions (1977)

Dutch Shea, Jr. (1982)

The Red White and Blue (1987)

Playland (1994)

Nothing Lost (2004)

Non-fiction

Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike (1967)

The Studio (1969)

Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season (1974)

Quintana and Friends (1978)

Harp (1989)

Crooning: A Collection (1990)

Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (1997)

Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne (2005)

Screenplays

The Panic in Needle Park (1971),  Al Pacino’s first starring role

Play It as It Lays (1972), starring Tuesday Weld

A Star Is Born (1976), starring Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson

True Confessions (1981), starring Robert Duval and Robert De Niro

Up Close & Personal (1996), starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer

Biographical and Critical Sources

Didion, Joan. 2005. The Year of Magical Thinking. Vintage / Random House.

Dunne, Dominick. “A Death in the Family,”  Vanity Fair, Sept 18, 2008

Dunne, Griffin (dir.). Joan Didion: The Center Will not Hold. Netflix.\, Oct 11, 2017.

Dunne, John Gregory. 1989. Harp. Simon and Schuster.

–. Monster: Living off the Big Screen. 1997. Random House

–. True Confessions.  1977. Thundermouth Press.

Keane, James T. “John Gregory Dunne, the ‘Irish brawler’ who explored the nation’s soul.” The Catholic Book Club: The Jesuit Review, July 9, 2024.

McNally, Owen. “Review of Nothing Lost,” Hartford Courant, May 16, 2004.

Szanton, Andrew. “John Gregory Dunne: A Writer Brooding on His Irishness.” Sept. 1, 2021. https://medium.com/@andrewszanton/john-gregory-dunne-a-writer-brooding-on-his-irishness-838c5d6c77c1