Nghiên cứu chuyên sâu

• Bailey, Thomas (1971). The American Pageant, A History of the Republic (ấn bản 4). Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C.: Heath and Company. 
• Belko, William S. "'John C. Calhoun and the Creation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: An Essay on Political Rivalry, Ideology, and Policymaking in the Early Republic," South Carolina Historical Magazine 2004 105(3): 170–197. ISSN 0038-3082
• Brown, Guy Story (2000). Calhoun's Philosophy of Politics: A Study of A Disquisition on Government. 
• Capers Gerald M., "A Reconsideration of Calhoun's Transition from Nationalism to Nullification," Journal of Southern History, 14 (Feb. 1948), 34–48. JSTOR 2197709
• Cheek, Jr. and Lee, H. (2004). Calhoun And Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse. 
• Ford Jr., Lacy K. Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860 (1988)
• Coit, Margaret L. biên tập (1970). John C. Calhoun: Great Lives Observed. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey. 
• Ford, Lacy K. Jr. (1988). “Republican Ideology in a Slave Society: The Political Economy of John C. Calhoun”. Journal of Southern History 54: 405–24. JSTOR 2208996. 
• Ford Jr., Lacy K. (1994). “Inventing the Concurrent Majority: Madison, Calhoun, and the Problem of Majoritarianism in American Political Thought”. The Journal of Southern History 60 (1): 19–58. JSTOR 2210719. 
• Freehling, William W. (1965). “Spoilsmen and Interests in the Thought and Career of John C. Calhoun”. Journal of American History 52: 25–42. JSTOR 1901122. 
• Gutzman, Kevin R. C., "Paul to Jeremiah: Calhoun's Abandonment of Nationalism," The Journal of Libertarian Studies 16 (2002), 3–33.
• Jarvis, Douglas Edward. "The Southern Conservative Thought of John C. Calhoun and the Cultural Foundations of the Canadian Identity," American Review of Canadian Studies, 43 (Sept. 2013), 297–314
• Krannawitter, Thomas L. "John C. Calhoun and the New Science of Race and Politics," in Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West, eds. Challenges to the American founding: slavery, historicism, and progressivism in the nineteenth century (2004) ch 2 pp 43+
• Lerner, Ralph. "Calhoun's New Science of Politics," American Political Science Review, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Dec. 1963), pp. 918–932 JSTOR 1952609
• Merriam, Charles E. "The Political Theory of Calhoun," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 5 (Mar. 1902), pp. 577–594 JSTOR 2762212
• Miller, William Lee (1996). Arguing About Slavery. John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-56922-9. 
• Rayback Joseph G., "The Presidential Ambitions of John C. Calhoun, 1844–1848," Journal of Southern History, XIV (Aug. 1948), 331–56. JSTOR 2197879
• Varon, Elizabeth R. (2008). Disunion!: The coming of the American Civil War, 1789–1859. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Wilentz, Sean (2008). The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: W.W. Horton and Company. 
• Wiltse, Charles. "Calhoun's Democracy," Journal of Politics, Vol. 3, No. 2 (May 1941), pp. 210–223 JSTOR 2125432
• Wood, W. Kirk, "History and Recovery of the Past: John C. Calhoun and the Origins of Nullification in South Carolina, 1819–1828," Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 46–68.

Nguồn tham khảo chính

• Calhoun, John C. John C. Calhoun: Selected Writings and Speeches edited by H. Lee Cheek, (2003) excerpt and text search
• The Papers of John C. Calhoun Edited by Clyde N. Wilson; 28 volumes, University of South Carolina Press, 1959–2003. Contains all letters, pamphlets and speeches by Calhoun and most letters written to him.
• Calhoun, John C. Slavery a Positive Good, speech on the Senate floor, ngày 6 tháng 2 năm 1837.
• Calhoun, John C. (1992). Lence, Ross M., biên tập. Union and Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun. ISBN 0-86597-102-1. 
• "Correspondence Addressed to John C. Calhoun, 1837–1849," Chauncey S. Boucher and Robert P. Brooks, eds., Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1929. 1931