James G. Basker

Books

Tobias Smollett, Critic and Journalist

Newark: University of Delaware Press and London: Associated University Presses, 1988. 358 pp. (Choice award as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books of 1988-89.")

Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon

Edited with Alvaro Ribeiro, S.J. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996; reissued 2001. 350 pp.

The Critical Review or Annals of Literature

Edited with introduction, 16 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002.

Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660 – 1810

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. lvii + 720 pp. Revised paperback edition 2005.

Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings 1760-1820

Edited with introduction. New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005. 359 pp. Paperback edition 2007.

Books In Progress

Samuel Johnson, Abolitionist: The Story Boswell Never Told

Manuscript nearing completion, due for delivery 2009.

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Scholarly edition for The Works of Tobias Smollett (forthcoming, University of Georgia Press, 2010).

The Yale Atlas of Slavery

Contributing editor. Eds. David Eltis, David Blight, et al (Yale University Press, in preparation, scheduled for 2010).

American Antislavery Literature, 1688-1865

Anthology for the Library of America(under contract; to be published Spring 2011).

Other Publications

He Has Long Outlived His Century: The 200th Anniversary of Johnson's Death

Co-authored with Hugh Amory, et al (Cambridge: Houghton Library, 1984). Awarded the 1985 A.L.A. Prize for best scholarly exhibition catalog.

Amistad: Martin Van Buren and John Quincy Adams

Original Manuscripts from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, co-edited with Paul Romaine (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 1998).

In His Own Words: Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Principles

Co-edited with Paul Romaine and Leslie Fields (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 1998).

Samuel Johnson in the Mind of Thomas Jefferson

(Charlottesville: The Johnsonians, 1999).

George Washington: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times

CD-ROM written and narrated by James G. Basker (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2000).

'I Love You, But Hate Slavery': An Unpublished Letter of Frederick Douglass to His Former Master, Hugh Auld

Edited with introduction (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2002).

'That Glorious Consummation, Which My Own Poor Eyes May Not Last to See': Lincoln on the Abolition of Slavery

Edited (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2002).

Lincoln as Lawyer: Three Unpublished Lincoln Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection

Edited (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2002).

Freedom: The History of US

CD-ROM written and narrated by James G. Basker (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2003).

Why Documents Matter: American Originals and the Historical Imagination

Edited with introduction (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2004; revised edition 2005).

American Originals: Documentary Highlights of American History (Published as a tribute to the students of Newcomers High School in New York City)

Edited with introduction (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2004).

Alexander Hamilton: A Documentary Companion to the Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society

Edited with Richard Brookhiser, et al (New York, 2004).

Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America

(Gallery guide to NYHS Exhibition, 16 pp.), edited with Richard Brookhiser, Libby Garland, et al (New York, 2004).

Slavery in the Founding Era: Literary Contexts

Edited with introduction (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2005).

Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery: Sources in the History of Emancipation

Edited with introduction (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2007).

Treasures of American History: Documents Presented in Honor of New Citizens of the United States

Edited with introduction (New York: New-York Historical Society & Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2007).

Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States

Compiled and edited (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute & American Experience, 2007).

"I Take Up My Pen": Letters from the War

Edited with foreword (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2008).

Great Lincoln Documents: Historians Present Treasures from the Gilder Lehrman Collection

Edited with foreword (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2009).

Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words: An Intimate View of Our Greatest President

Compiled and edited (New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2009).