Editing Noah Webster (section)

==References==
* "Noah Webster" in ''The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes'' (1907–21). vol 18 section 25:33 [http://www.bartleby.com/228/0233.html online edition]
* {{Cite journal |last=Bynack |first=V. P. |date=1984 |title=Noah Webster's Linguistic Thought and the Idea of an American National Culture |url=https://jstor.org/stable/2709333 |journal=[[Journal of the History of Ideas]] |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=99–114|doi=10.2307/2709333 |jstor=2709333 }}
* [[Joseph J. Ellis|Ellis, Joseph J.]] ''After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture'' 1979. chapter 6, interpretive essay [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101499638 online edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331202158/https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101499638 |date=March 31, 2008 }}
* Gallardo, Andres. "The Standardization of American English." PhD dissertation State U. of New York, Buffalo 1980. 367 pp. DAI 1981 41(8): 3557-A. 8104193, focused on Webster's dictionary
* Kendall, Joshua. ''The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture'' (2011)
* Leavitt, Robert Keith. ''Noah's Ark New England Yankees and the Endless Quest: a Short History of the Original Webster Dictionaries, With Particular Reference to Their First Hundred Years'' (1947). 106 pp
* {{Cite magazine |last=Lepore |first=Jill |author-link=Jill Lepore |date=October 29, 2006 |title=Noah's Mark |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/11/06/noahs-mark |url-access=subscription |access-date=January 20, 2023 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}
* Malone, Kemp. "Webster, Noah," ''Dictionary of American Biography,'' Volume 10 (1936)
* {{Cite book |last=Micklethwait |first=David |url=https://archive.org/details/noahwebsterameri0000mick |title=Noah Webster and the American Dictionary |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |year=2005 |isbn=9780786421572 |language=en |orig-date=2000}}
* Morgan, John S. ''Noah Webster'' (1975), popular biography
* Moss, Richard J. ''Noah Webster.'' (1984). 131 pp. Wester as author
* Nelson, C. Louise. "Neglect of Economic Education in Webster's 'Blue-Backed Speller'" ''American Economist'', Vol. 39, 1995 [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000309723 online edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129202953/https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000309723 |date=January 29, 2008 }}
* Pelanda, Brian. [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1941506 Declarations of Cultural Independence: The Nationalistic Imperative Behind the Passage of Early American Copyright Laws, 1783–1787] Journal of the Copyright Society of the US, Vol. 58, p.&nbsp;431, 2011.
* Proudfit, Isabel. ''Noah Webster Father of the Dictionary'' (1966).
* {{Cite book |last=Rollins |first=Richard M. |url=https://archive.org/details/longjourneyofnoa0000roll |title=The Long Journey of Noah Webster |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=1980 |isbn=9780812277784 |language=en}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Rollins |first=Richard M. |date=1976 |title=Words as Social Control: Noah Webster and the Creation of the American Dictionary |url=https://jstor.org/stable/2712538 |journal=[[American Quarterly]] |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=415–430|doi=10.2307/2712538 |jstor=2712538 }}
* {{cite book |last=Scudder |first=Horace E. |title=Noah Webster |publisher=The Riverside Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |year=1881 |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31238/31238-h/31238-h.htm |author-link1=Horace Scudder}}
* Snyder, K. Alan. ''Defining Noah Webster: Mind and Morals in the Early Republic.'' (1990). 421 pp.
* {{Cite journal |last=Southard |first=Bruce |date=1979 |title=Noah Webster: America's Forgotten Linguist |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/454522 |journal=[[American Speech]] |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=12–22|doi=10.2307/454522 |jstor=454522 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Unger |first=Harlow Giles |url=https://archive.org/details/noahwebsterlifet00unge |title=Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |year=1998 |isbn=9780471184553 |language=en |author-link=Harlow Giles Unger}}
* Warfel, Harry R. ''Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America'' (1936), a standard biography

===Primary sources===
* Harry R. Warfel, ed., ''Letters of Noah Webster'' (1953),
* Homer D. Babbidge Jr., ed., ''Noah Webster: On Being American'' (1967), selections from his writings
* Webster, Noah. ''The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language for the Use of Schools in the United States by Noah Webster'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=GwhCAAAAYAAJ&q=intitle:spelling+intitle:book+inauthor:noah+inauthor:webster 1836 edition online], the famous Blue- Backed Speller
* Webster, Noah. ''An American dictionary of the English language'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=xGIPAAAAYAAJ 1848 edition online]
* Webster, Noah. ''A grammatical institute of the English language'' [https://archive.org/details/agrammaticalins00websgoog 1800 edition online]
* Webster, Noah. ''Miscellaneous papers on political and commercial subjects'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=pzAoAAAAYAAJ 1802 edition online] mostly about banks
* Webster, Noah. ''A collection of essays and fugitiv writings: on moral, historical, political and literary subjects'' [https://archive.org/details/acollectionessa00websgoog 1790 edition online] 414 pages