Vernon Louis Parrington/Bibliography

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Books by Parrington

• Vernon Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought (1927), 3-vol online
• Parrington, The Connecticut Wits (1926)
• Parrington, Sinclair Lewis, Our Own Diogenes (1927)

Secondary sources

• Crowe, Charles. "The Emergence of Progressive History." Journal of the History of Ideas 1966 27(1): 109-124. Issn: 0022-5037 Fulltext: in Jstor
• Hall, Lark. "V. L. Parrington's Oklahoma Years, 1897-1908: 'Few High Lights and Much Monotone.'" Pacific Northwest Quarterly 1981 72(1): 20-28. Issn: 0030-8803
• Richard Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (1969), the major reinterpretation
• Reinitz, Richard. "Vernon Louis Parrington as Historical Ironist." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 1977 68(3): 113-119. Issn: 0030-8803
• Reising, Russell J. "Reconstructing Parrington." American Quarterly 1989 41(1): 155-164. Issn: 0003-0678 Fulltext: in Jstor
• Skotheim, Robert A. "Environmental Interpretations of Ideas by Beard, Parrington, and Curti," The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Feb., 1964), pp. 35-44 online at JSTOR
• Skotheim, Robert A. and Kermit Vanderbilt. "Vernon Louis Parrington." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 1962 53(3): 100-113. Issn: 0030-8803 summary of his ideas
• Verheul, Jaap. "The Ideological Origins of American Studies." European Contributions to American Studies 1999 40: 91-103. Issn: 1387-9332
• Wish, Harvey. The American Historian: A Social-intellectual History of the Writing of the American Past. 1960, ch. 15. online edition