Published Works
Ambrose, Stephen E. Upton and the Army. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963.
Bailey, Roger A. “The Great Question”: Slavery, Sectionalism, and the U.S. Naval Officer Corps. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2021.
Betts, Raymond F. “Du Pont de Nemours in Napoleonic France, 1802-1815.” French Historical Studies 5, no. 2 (1967): 188-203.
Carisio, Justin. A Quaker Officer in the Civil War: Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013.
Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1977.
Chandler, Alfred DuPont, and Stephen Salsbury. Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
Coker, Michael D. The Battle of Port Royal. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.
Fagal, Andrew J. B. “The Mills of Liberty: Foreign Capital, Government Contracts, and the Establishment of DuPont, 1790–1820.” Enterprise and Society 19, no. 2 (2017): 309–351.
Farber, David. Everybody Ought to be Rich: The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2013.
Ferrari, Michelle. Pierre S. Du Pont: A Rare Genius. Kennet Square, PA: Longwood Gardens, 2009.
Frey, Linda, and Marsha Frey. The Culture of French Revolutionary Diplomacy: In the Face of Europe.London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018.
Gadsden, Brett. Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Giraudeau, Martin. “Performing Physiocracy.” Journal of Cultural Economy 3, no. 2 (2010): 225–42.
Hagley Museum and Library. A Separate Place: The Schools that P.S. du Pont Built. Wilmington, DE: Hagley Museum and Library, 2001. https://www.hagley.org/research/separate-place.
Hahn, Gil. Campaign for the Confederate Coast: Blockading, Blockade Running and Related Endeavors During the American Civil War. New York: West 88th Street Press, 2021.
Hancock, Harold Bell. Delaware During the Civil War: A Political History. Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1961.
Harvey, David. “Slavery on the Balance Sheet: Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours and the Physiocratic Case for Free Labor.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 42 (2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0642292.0042.008.
Hounshell, David A., and John Kenly Smith, Jr. Science and Corporate Strategy: DuPont R&D, 1902-1980. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988
Hyard, Alexandra. “Political Economy, the Republic and the Social Republic.” Review of the History of Economic Thought 13 (2022): 59-77.
Kirshner, Ralph. The Class of 1861: Custer, Ames, and Their Classmates after West Point. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Manthorpe, William. A Century of Service: The U.S. Navy on Cape Henlopen, Lewes, Delaware: 1898- 1996. Wilmington, DE: Cedar Tree Books, 2014.
Morrison, James L. “The Best School in the World”: West Point, the Pre-Civil War Years, 1833-1866. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1986.
Mulrooney, Margaret M. Black Powder, White Lace: The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in 19th- Century America. Newark, DE: University of Delaware, 2022.
Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner, 2010.
Reed, Thomas J., W. Andrew McKay, and Anthony Wade. Untying the Political Knot: Delaware During the War Between the States. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2001.
Roberts, William H. USS New Ironsides in the Civil War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. Rose, Willie Lee. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1964.
Saricks, Ambrose. Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1965.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America.” Signs 1, no. 1 (1975): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1086/493203.
Spitale, Leonard. Victorine du Pont: The Force Behind the Family. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2023.
Symonds, Craig L. Lincoln and his Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, The U.S. Navy, and the Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Templeton, Richard D. Across the Creek: Black Powder Explosions on the Brandywine. Wilmington, DE: Blue Rock Publishing, 2020.
Vardi, Liana. The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Wall, Joseph Frazier. Alfred I. du Pont: The Man & His Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Weddle, Kevin J. Lincoln’s Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Wilkinson, Norman B. The Brandywine Home Front During the Civil War, 1861-1865. Wilmington, DE: Kaumagraph Company, 1966.
Stories from the Stacks/Hagley History Hangout
Abramson, Julia. “The Separation Of People's Personal And Financial Lives.” https://www.hagley.org/dr-julia-abramson-separation-peoples-personal-and-financial-lives.
Beaufret, Roma. "Father & Sons: How the du Pont Family Went Into Business." https://www.hagley.org/father-sons-how-du-pont-family-went-business-roma-beaufret.
McNiff, Kelsey. “’People Of Some Talent & So Much Virtue’: Forgotten Lives Of Du Pont Women.” https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-kelsey-mcniff.
Hagley Research & Collection News
Abramson, Julia. “Put Your Money Where Your Friends Are: Finance and Loyalty in a Nineteenth- Century DuPont Shareholder Report.” 2019. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/put-your-money-where-your-friends-are-finance-and-loyalty-nineteenth-century-du-pont.
Clawson, Lucas. “Brandywine Sketches by Eleuthera and Sophie du Pont.” 2019. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/brandywine-sketches-eleuthera-and-sophie-du-pont.
Deperne, Marcel. “Numa: P.S. du Pont’s Unrealized Agricultural Colony.” 2018. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/numa-ps-du-ponts-unrealized-agricultural-colony.
Geoffroy-Schwinden, Rebecca. “Music In The Du Pont Women’s Community, 1790s–1830s.” 2022. https://www.hagley.org/ja/librarynews/music-du-pont-women-s-community-1790s-1830s.
Hyard, Alexandra. “Reading Revolutionary Politics in the Margins.” 2018. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/reading-revolutionary-politics-margins.
McNiff, Kelsey. “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Stories of du Pont Women.” 2022. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/hiding-plain-sight-stories-du-pont-women.
Mills, Marsha. “Cherry Bounce: A Delicious Mystery Solved?” 2022. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/cherry-bounce-delicious-mystery-solved.
Mills, Marsha. “Manuscripts and Archives: The Research Team of Margaret Kane and P.S. du Pont.” 2016. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/manuscripts-and-archives-research-research-research.
Staudinger, Alison. “Researching the Women Who Opposed American Prohibition.” 2016. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/center-history-business-researching-women-who-opposed-american-prohibition.
Tabouillot, Laurène and Cécile Raas. "Navigating a Friendship in Letters: The Correspondence of Baroness Henriette Hyde de Neuville & Gabrielle Joséphine du Pont, 1810-1835." 2025. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/navigating-friendship-letters-correspondence-baroness-henriette-hyde-de-neuville
Tanaka, Aya. “‘Emotional Accounting’ in P.S. du Pont’s Letters to Marie-Anne Lavoisier.” 2017. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/mixing-business-and-pleasure-emotional-accounting-ps-du-pont%E2%80%99s-letters-marie-anne.
Wahl, Laura. “What is the Value of a Piece of Paper?” 2021. https://www.hagley.org/librarynews/What-is-the-Value-of-a-Piece-of-Paper.