Here, you’ll find a list of secondary sources about Joel Barlow’s life and political thought.
Blau, Joseph L. “Joel Barlow, Enlightened Religionist.” Journal of the History of Ideas 10, no. 3 (1949): 430–44. https://doi.org/10.2307/2707046.
Boynton, Percy H. “Joel Barlow Advises the Privileged Orders.” The New England Quarterly 12, no. 3 (1939): 477–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/360828.
Brant, Irving. “Joel Barlow, Madison’s Stubborn Minister.” The William and Mary Quarterly 15, no. 4 (1958): 438–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/2936900.
Buel, Richard. Joel Barlow: American Citizen in a Revolutionary World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011.
Dorfman, Joseph. “Joel Barlow: Trafficker in Trade and Letters.” Political Science Quarterly 59, no. 1 (1944): 83–100. https://doi.org/10.2307/2144701.
Durden, Robert F. “Joel Barlow in the French Revolution.” The William and Mary Quarterly 8, no. 3 (1951): 328–54. https://doi.org/10.2307/1917418.
Ford, Arthur L. Joel Barlow. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1971.
Hill, Peter P. Joel Barlow: American Diplomat and Nation Builder. Washington D.C.: Potomac Books. 2012.
Von Eggers, Nicolai. 2024. “Joel Barlow in Denmark: American Republicanism and the Republic of Translations in Continental Europe in the Revolutionary 1790s.” Global Intellectual History, August, 1–26. doi:10.1080/23801883.2024.2380457.
Woodress, James. A Yankee’s Odyssey: The Life of Joel Barlow. 1958.