Wallace Brown:A Bibliography
1959 - 1999

Eric L. Swanick
Simon Fraser University

This bibliography includes references to all of Professor Brown’s academic writings but does not include references to his many letters to the editor in several newspapers nor to his writings on things Scotch(ish) in the New Brunswick Scottish Cultural Association Newsletter and other magazines and newspapers. Wallace Brown is Professor Emeritus, University of New Brunswick, and lives in Fredericton.

1959

"The Thaw", America Sings: 1959 Anthology of College Poetry, 143. Los Angeles: National Poetry Association, 1959.

1960

"George L. Miller and the Struggle over Nebraska Statehood", Nebraska History 41 (December 1960): 299-318.

1962

"The Loyalists and the American Revolution", History Today 12 (March 1962): 149-57. Reprinted in Myth and the American Experience, edited by Nicholas Cords and Patrick Gerster. New York: Glencoe Press, 1973. 2 v. and in 1978 edition of same.

Review: The American Tory, by William H. Nelson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961. 194 p. History Today 12 (June 1962): 440-1.

1964

"Negroes and the American Revolution", History Today 14 (August 1964): 556-63. Reprinted in Race Relations in British North America, 1607-1783, edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Alan M. Smith. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1982.

"The Structure of Loyalism During the American Revolution", Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1964. 394 l.

1965

The King’s Friends: The Composition and Motives of the American Loyalist Claimants. Providence: Brown University Press, 1965. 411 p.

Excerpts from The King’s Friends ... have been reprinted in The Loyalists, edited by G.N.D. Evans. Problems in Canadian History. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1968;

Eric L. Swanick, "Wallace Brown: A Bibliography 1959-1999", Acadiensis, XXXII, 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 140-151.

Allegiance in America: The Case of the Loyalists, edited by G.N.D. Evans. Themes and Social Forces in American History Series. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969; The American Tory, edited by Morton Borden and Penn Borden. Great Lives Observed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.

1966

Review: The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution, by H. Trevor Colbourn. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1965. 247 p. American Historical Review 71 (April 1966): 1057-8.

Review: The Social Structure of Revolutionary America, by Jackson Turner Main. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. 330 p. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 90 (April 1966): 257-8.

1967

"Viewpoints of a Pennsylvania Loyalist", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 91 (October 1967): 419-33.

Review: Lord Dartmouth and the American Revolution, by B.D. Bargar. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1965. 219 p. Canadian Journal of History 2 (September 1967): 95-6.

Review: Trade and Empire: The British Customs Services in Colonial America, 1660-1775, by Thomas C. Barrow. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. 336 p. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 91 (October 1967): 473-5.

1968

"The American Farmer During the Revolution: Rebel or Loyalist?", Agricultural History 42 (October 1968): 327-38.

Review: Flight from the Republic: The Tories of the American Revolution, by North Callahan. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. 208 p. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 92 (April 1968): 258-9.

1969

"American Loyalists in Britain", History Today 19 (October 1969): 672-8.

"George L. Miller and the Boostings of Omaha", Nebraska History 50 (September 1969): 277- 91.

The Good Americans: The Loyalists in the American Revolution. New York: William Morrow, 1969. 302 p. Paperback edition, 1971 and reprinted in 1973, 1976 and 1979. Excerpts from The Good Americans ... have been reprinted in the following: American Life from 1607 to the Civil War, edited by John H. Cary and Julius Weinburg. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975 and in 2d ed., 1978; The American Revolution: Whose Revolution?, edited by James Kirby Martin and Karen R. Stubaus. Huntington, NY: R.E. Kreiger, 1977; The Revolution in American, 1754- 1788: Documents and Commentaries, edited by J.R. Pole. London: Macmillan, 1970; The Social Fabric: American Life from 1607 to the Civil War, edited by John H. Cary and Julius Weinburg. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.

Review: Canada and the American Revolution, 1774-1783, by Gustave Lanctôt. Translated by Margaret M. Cameron. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. 321 p. New-York Historical Society Quarterly 53 (January 1969): 87-8.

1970

"The View at Two Hundred Years: The Loyalists of the American Revolution", Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 80 (Part I, 1970): 25-47.

Review: Whig-Loyalism: An Aspect of Political Ideology in the American Revolutionary Era, by William Allen Benton. Rutherford, NJ: Dickinson University Press, 1969. 231 p. American Historical Review 75 (April 1970): 1180-1.

1971

"Galloway, Joseph (c. 1731-1803)." In Encyclopedia Americana. New York: Americana Corporation, 1971 to date. 12: 253.

Review: Lord Stirling, by Alan Valentine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. 299 p. Canadian Historical Review 52 (June 1971): 218-9.

Review: Uncommon Obdurate: The Several Public Careers of J. F. W. DesBarres, by G.N.D. Evans. Salem, MA: Peabody Museum; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969. 130 p. Canadian Historical Review 52 (March 1971): 102-3.

1972

"Escape from the Republic: The Dispersal of the American Loyalists", History Today 22 (February 1972): 94-102.

"Leonard, Daniel (1740-1829)." In Encyclopedia Americana. New York: Americana Corporation, 1972 to date. 17: 227.

"The ‘Loyal’ Americans: Tories in the Revolution", American History Illustrated 7 (August 1972): 36-43.

"Loyalists." In Encyclopedia Americana. New York: Americana Corporation, 1972 to date. 17: 820.

"The Loyalists Had a Rough Time of It", The Rhode Islander (4 June 1972): 34-6.

"William Cobbett in North America", History Today 22 (October 1972): 685-91.

Editor: "An Englishman Views the American Revolution: The Letters of Henry Hulton, 1769- 1776", Huntington Library Quarterly 36 (November 1972): 1-26; 36 (February 1973): 139-51.

1973

Review: The British Americas: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789, by Mary Beth Norton. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. 333 p. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 97 (April 1973): 259-61.

Review: The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist, edited by Andrew Oliver. Cambridge: Harvard University Press for the Essex Institute, Salem, 1972. 2 v. (1083 p.) New-York Historical Society Quarterly 57 (October 1973): 352-3.

Review: A People Highly Favoured of God: The Nova Scotia Yankees and the American Revolution, by Gordon Stewart and George Rawlyk. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1972. 219 p. Journal of American History 59 (March 1973): 986-7.

1974

"The American Colonies and the West Indies", American History Illustrated 9 (May 1974): [12]- 23.

"The British Press and the American Colonies", History Today 24 (May 1974): 326- 33. Reprinted in Readings in American History: Bicentennial Edition. Guilford, CT: Dushkin, 1975. 2 v.

"Magnificent Were the Iroquois", American History Illustrated 8 (January 1974): 22-33. Reprinted in Readings in American History, vol. 1, edited by John F. McCormack, Jr. Needham Heights, MA: Ginn, 1992.

"Pirates on American Seas", American History Illustrated 9 (December 1974): 4-11, 44-[48].

Review: The British Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789, by Mary Beth Norton. London: Constable, 1972. 333 p. History Today 24 (August 1974): 575.

Review Essay: "Loyalist Historiography", Acadiensis IV (Autumn 1974): 133-8.

1975

" American Romantic Reform", History Today 25 (August 1975): 552-60.

"Loyalists and Non-Participants." In The American Revolution: A Heritage of Change. The James Bell Ford Library Bicentennial Conference, University of Minnesota, edited by John Parker and Carol Urness, 120-34. Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1975.

Review: The American Revolution Within America, by Merrill Jensen. Anson G. Phelps Lectureship Series on Early American History. New York: New York University Press, 1974. 224 p. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography n.s. 1 (1975): 61.

Review: English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During the First Decade of George III’s Reign, by Walter James Shelton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. 226 p. Agriculture History 49 (October 1975): 683-4.

Review: Fundamental Testaments of the American Revolution. Washington: Library of Congress, 1973. 119 p. and Independence on Trial: Foreign Affairs and the Making of the Constitution, by Frederick W. Marks, III. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. 256 p. Journal of American History 9, 1 (1975): 117-8.

Review: Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist, by Carol Berkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. 200 p. William and Mary Quarterly 3d Series 32 (October 1975): 654-6.

Review: Nova Scotia’s Massachusetts: A Study of Massachusetts-Nova Scotia Relations, 1630- 1784, by George A. Rawlyk. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1973. 298 p. Journal of American History 62 (September 1975): 370-1.

Review: A Tug of Loyalties: Anglo-American Relations, 1765-1785, edited by Esmond Wright. Institute of United States Studies; 2. London: Athlone Press of the University of London; New York: Humanities Press, 1975. 92 p. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography n.s. 1 (1975): 104-5.

1976

"The American Loyalists in Bermuda", Bermuda Historical Quarterly 33 (Winter 1976): 80-5.

"Loyalist History", British Studies Monitor 6 (Spring 1976): 46-8.

"The Loyalists in the West Indies, 1783-1834." In Red, White and True Blue: The Loyalists in the Revolution, edited by Esmond Wright, 73-96, 187-91. New York: AMS Press, 1976.

"The Loyalists of the American Revolution in the Bahamas and the British West Indies", Revista Interamericana Review 5 (Winter 1975/76): 638-47.

"William Cobbett in the Maritimes", Dalhousie Review 56 (Autumn 1976): [448]- 61.

1977

"‘Victorious in Defeat’: The American Loyalists in Canada", History Today 27 (February 1977): 92-100.

Review: The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, by Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1974. 423 p. Studies in Burke and His Time 18 (Autumn 1977): 235-7.

1978

Review: The American Journals of Lt. John Enys, edited by Elizabeth Cometti. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1976. 377 p. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography n.s. 4 (1978): 41-2.

Review: The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870, by James W. St. G. Walker. New York: Africana Publishing and Dalhousie University Press, 1976. 438 p. Canadian Historical Review 59 (March 1978): 78-9.

Review: A Divided People, by Kenneth S. Lynn. Contributions to American Studies; no. 30. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1977. 113 p. Journal of American History 65 (June 1978): 120-1.

Review: The Loyalists of Revolutionary Delaware, by Harold B. Hancock. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1977. 159 p. American Historical Review 83 (October 1978): 1338-9.

Review: Scotland, Europe and the American Revolution, edited by Owen Dudley Edwards and George Shepperson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University

Student Publications, 1976. 138 p. and The American Colonies from Settlement to Independence, by R. C. Simmons. London: Longman, 1976. 438 p. Journal of American Studies 12, 1 (1978): 118-9.

1979

"Marston, Benjamin." In Dictionary of Canadian Biography, v. 4, 1771 to 1800, 516-7. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979 / Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, v. 4, de 1771 à 1800, 557-8. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1980.

Review: The Loyalist Mind: Joseph Galloway and the American Revolution, by John F. Ferling. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977. 157 p. The Historian 41 (February 1979): 369-70.

Review: Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution, by Allan S. Everest. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press for the New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1976. 217 p. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography n.s. 5 (1979): 54.

Review: The Southern Experience in the American Revolution, edited by Jeffrey J. Crown and Larry E. Tise. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. 279 p. Canadian Journal of History 14 (December 1979): 477-8.

1980

"Canada in Crisis: The Historical Background", History Today 39 (October 1980): 42-6.

Review: Jonathan Boucher: Loyalist in Exile, by Anne Y. Zimmer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1978. 395 p. William and Mary Quarterly 3d Series 37 (January 1980): 159-60.

Review: The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution, by Robert O. Demond. Durham: Duke University Press, 1940; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1979. 286 p. Loyalist Gazette 18 (Spring 1980): 14.

1981

"Bermuda Loyalists", Loyalist Gazette 19 (Autumn 1981): 9-10.

Review: From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson, by Elizabeth P. McCaughey. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 362 p. Journal of American History 67 (March 1981): 902-3.

1983

"Byles, Mather." In Dictionary of Canadian Biography, v. 5, 1801 to 1820, 127-8. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983 / Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, v. 5, de 1801 à 1820, 140-1. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1983.

"L’Établissement des Militaires loyalistes au Nouveau-Brunswick." Dans Les loyalistes: le rôle militaire des corps provinciaux loyalistes et leur établissement en Amérique du Nord brittanique, 1775-1784, Robert S. Allen, rédacteur principal, 81-90. Ottawa: Musées nationaux du Canada, 1983.

"Loyalist Military Settlement in New Brunswick." In The Loyal Americans: The Military Role of the Loyalist Provincial Corps and Their Settlement in British North America, 1775-1784, edited by Robert S. Allen, 81-90. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1983.

"The Loyalists and the Maritime Provinces", Loyalist Gazette 21 (Spring 1983): 8- 10.

Review: A Divided People, by Kenneth S. Lynn. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1977. 113 p. Loyalist Gazette 21 (Spring 1983): 21.

Review: An Island Refuge: Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on the Island of St. John. Charlottetown: Abegweit Branch, United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada, 1983. 379 p. and Eleven Exiles: Accounts of the Loyalists of the American Revolution, edited by Phyllis R. Blakeley and John N. Grant. Toronto: Dundurn, 1982. 336 p. The Island Magazine no. 14 (Fall/Winter 1983): 33.

1984

"The New Brunswick Legislature: The View at 200 Years." [Fredericton, 1984.] 10 l. Prepared for the New Brunswick Bicentennial Commission. Unpublished.

With Hereward Senior. Victorious in Defeat: The Loyalists in Canada. Toronto: Methuen, 1984. 230 p.

Review: Bahamian Loyalists and Their Slaves, by Gail Saunders. London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1983. 81 p. Loyalist Gazette 22 (December 1984): 19.

Review: A Bibliography of Loyalist Source Material in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, edited by Gregory Palmer. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1982. 1064 p. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 108 (January 1984): 114-5.

Review: Colonial America, by Jerome R. Reich. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. 307 p. Journal of American History 71 (June 1984): 110-1.

Review: The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789, by Robert Middlekauff. The Oxford History of the United States; v. 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. 696 p. Canadian Journal of History 19 (December 1984): 436-7.

Review: Homeward Bound: A History of the Bahama Islands to 1850, with a Definitive Study of Abaco in the American Loyalist Plantation Period, by Sandra Riley. Miami: Island Research; Green Turtle Bay, Abaco, The Bahamas: Albert Lowe Museum, 1983. 308 p. Loyalist Gazette 22 (December 1984): 19-20.

1985

The Nova Scotia Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1722-1860 in the Archives of the USPG, London. British Records Relating to America in Microform. East Ardsley, Wakefield, England: Microform Academic Publishers, 1985. 25 p. + 15 reels of 35 mm positive roll microfilm.

"Research on the Loyalist Exodus Primarily to the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Dominica." In Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean, Kenneth J. Grieb, editor- in-chief, 346-54. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Review: The Loyalist Governor: Biography of Sir John Wentworth, by Brian C. Cuthbertson. Halifax: Nimbus, 1983. 176 p. Canadian Historical Review 66 (March 1985): 120-1.

1986

Editor with G. Palmer. The American Revolution in Context: Original Documents Selected from Archives in Great Britain & the U.S.A. London: World Microfilms Publications, 1986. 11 p. + 6 reels of 35 mm positive roll microfilm.

Review: Colonial Anglicanism in North America, by John R. Wollverton. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984. 331 p. Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 55 (December 1986): 346-8.

Review: Previously Unpublished Writings of Robert A. East, by Robert A. East. Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1985. 118 p. Loyalist Gazette 24 (June 1986): 24.

Review: Saint John: The Making of a Colonial Urban Community, by T. W. Acheson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. 314 p. Loyalist Gazette 24 (June 1986): 22-3.

Review: True Blue: The Loyalist Legend, by Walter Stewart. Toronto: Collins, 1985. 275 p. Loyalist Gazette 24 (June 1986): 22.

Review: Understanding the Loyalists, by J.M. Bumsted. Sackville: Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, 1986. 51 p. Atlantic Provinces Book Review 13 (September/October 1986): 5.

1987

"Belize Survives as Oasis of Peace and Liberal Democracy", Globe and Mail, 3 October 1987, Travel, p. F7.

"Cobbett, William." In Dictionary of Canadian Biography, v. 6, 1821 to 1835, 154- 6. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987 / Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, v. 6, de 1821 à 1835, 168-70. Québec: Presses de l’Université de Laval, 1987.

Editor with Ellen MacGillivray and John Ross. John Simpson: First Mayor of Fredericton and First Secretary of the Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew. Fredericton: Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew, 1987. 28 p.

Review: Smugglers and Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution, by John W. Tyler. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986. 349 p. Journal of American Studies 21, 2 (1987): 301.

1988

"First Impressions: Through Colonial Canada with our Pioneer Tourists", The Beaver 68 (April/May 1988): 4-20. Reprinted in A Colonial Portrait: Art in Canada to 1871, edited by Ann Morrison, Elisa McLaren. Richmond, BC: Open Learning Agency, 1979.

"The Scottish Parallel", Globe and Mail, 1 January 1988, p. A7. - Scotland/England, Canada/United States.

Review: This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, by Neil MacKinnon. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1986. 231 p. Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 33 (hiver 1988): 423-6.

1989

"The Black Loyalists in Canada", Vizimage 1 (septembre/octobre 1989): 12-5.

"Les Loyalistes noirs au Canada", Visimage 1 (septembre/octobre 1989): 8-11.

Review: The Idea of Loyalty in Upper Canada, 1784-1850, by David Mills. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988. 238 p. Journal of American History 76 (December 1989): 921-2.

Review: A View of Woodstock: Historic Homes of the Nineteenth Century, by Allison Connell. Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1988. 74 p. Atlantic Provinces Book Review 16 (September/October 1989): 3.

1990

"The Black Loyalists in Canada", Loyalist Gazette 28 (Spring 1990): 11-4.

"The Governorship of John Orde, 1783-1793: The Loyalist Period in Dominica", Journal of Caribbean History 24, 2 (1990): 146-77.

"The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras during the Era of the American Revolution", Belizean Studies 18, 2/3 (1990): 43-64.

1991

"The ‘Distinct Society’ Issue: An American Parallel", Telegraph-Journal, 13 November 1991, p. 9.

1992

"The American Loyalists in Jamaica", Journal of Caribbean History 26, 2 (1992): 121-46.

"Charlie Chaplin’s ‘A King in New York’ Revisited", Film and History 22 (September 1992): [88]-98.

1994

"Victorious in Defeat: The American Loyalists in New Brunswick." In New Brunswick: A Colour Guidebook, edited by Marianne and H.A. Eiselt, 26-31. Halifax: Formac, 1994. Second edition by the same publisher in 1996.

Review: George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic, by John P. Kaminski. Madison: Madison House, 1993. 342 p. Journal of American History 81 (September 1994): 662-3.

Review: Plunder, Profit and Paroles: A Social History of the War of 1812 in Upper Canada, by George Sheppard. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994. 334 p. Journal of Military History 58 (October 1994): 743-4.

Review: While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women, by Janice Potter-MacKinnon. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993. 199 p. Journal of American History 81 (September 1994): 661.

1995

Review: Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution: The English Connection, by Paul W. Wilderson. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1994. 364 p. American Historical Review 100 (October 1995): 1290-1.

Review Essay: "Some Recent Books on Late 18th Century Atlantic Canada", Acadiensis XXIV, 2 (Spring 1995): 114-21.

1996

Review: Loyalists and Community in North America, edited by Robert M. Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes and George W. Rawlyk. Contributions in American History; no. 158. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 226 p. William and Mary Quarterly 3d Series 53 (April 1996): 401-3.

1999

"The Black Loyalists in Sierra Leone." In Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World, edited by John W. Pulis, [103]-134. Crosscurrents in African American History; 4. New York/London: Garland, 1999.