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Contemporary Sources & Documents
- Articles of Agreement of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, December 27, 1945, 2 UNTS 134
- Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund. December 27, 1945, 2 UNTS 39
- Bretton Woods, 1944, CBS Broadcast, July 18, 1944. Transcript from Morganthau’s Diary, Book 755 July 16-18, 1944, pp 243-270
- NAACP 1940-55. General office file. United Nations -- Bretton Woods Conference, 1944-1946. Frederick, MD, University Publications of America.
- National Planning Association. 1945. The stakes of Bretton Woods: a statement. Washington, D.C.
- New Zealand. 1946. The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference Held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, U.S.A., 1-22 July, 1944 : Report by New Zealand Delegation. Publication, No. 22. Wellington N.Z.: Dept. of External Affairs
- Newcomer, Mabel. 1944. Monetary plans for the United nations, a layman's guide to proposals of the Bretton Woods conference. Washington, D.C.: American Association of University Women
- United Nations Information Office. 1945. Money and the Postwar World: The Story of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. New York, N.Y: United nations information Office.
- United States, Dept of State. 1948. Proceedings and Documents of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July 1-22, 1944. 2v. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Gvt. Printing Office, Volume 1; Volume 2.
- United States, Dept. of the Treasury. 1944. Questions and Answers on the Bank for Reconstruction and Development (distributed at Bretton Woods)
Secondary Works
- Black, Stanley W. 1991. A Levite among the priests : Edward M. Bernstein and the origins of the Bretton Woods System. Routledge
- Bretton Woods: Background and History. Bulletin/Reserve Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand); p. 84-86, June 1952.
- Cesarano, Filippo. 2006. Monetary theory and Bretton Woods : the construction of an international monetary order. New York : Cambridge University Press
- Conway, Edmund. 2015. The Summit : Bretton Woods, 1944 : J.m. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy. New York: Pegasus Books.
- Helleiner, Eric. 2016. Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order
- Schild, Georg. 1995. Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks : American economic and political postwar planning in the summer of 1944. New York : St. Martin's Press
- Schuler, Kurt & Mark Bernkopf, Who Was at Bretton Woods, Center for Financial Stability
- Scott-Smith, Giles & J. Simon Rofe [editors]. 2017. Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Steil, Benn. 2014. The battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a new world order.
- Van Dormael, Armand. 1978. Bretton Woods: Birth of a Monetary System. Palgrave McMillan UK
Personal Papers & Archives
- Arey, Hawthorne, Hawthorne Arey Papers, 1944-1967. (Held at the Truman Library)
- Bernstein, Edward M. 1927. Edward M. Bernstein papers. (Held at UNC Chapel Hill Southern History Collection)
- Brand, Henry, Archive of Robert Henry Brand, Baron Brand (Held at the Bodleian Library)
- Cox, Oscar S., Oscar S Cox Papers. (Held at FDR Library)
- Dulles, Eleanor Lansing, and John T. Mason. 1967. Oral history interview with Eleanor Lansing Dulles. Eisenhower Administration Project.
- Eccles, Marriner. Marriner S. Eccles Papers (Held at the St. Louis Federal Reserves)
- Horne, Roman L. Roman L. Horne Papers, 1944-1983 (bulk 1944-45) (Organizing Secretary of the IMF, IMF staff 1946-1967) (Held at the Truman Library)
- Keynes, John Maynard,
- The Papers of John Maynard Keynes, 1868-1951. King's College Archives, University of Cambridge. GB 272 JMK
- Treasury: Papers of Lord Keynes, T247, (Held at UK National Archives)
- Keynes Articles in the Pressearchive von HWWA und IfW (in German)
- Carter, Zachary D. 2021. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- Skidelsky, Robert. 2005. John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
- Melville, L. G.
- Papers of Leslie Melville. (Held at National Library of Australia)
- Oral history interviews with Sir Leslie Melville are held in National Library of Australia Oral History Section at Oral TRC 182.
- Mikesell, R. Frech. 1994. The Bretton Woods debates: a memoir. Princeton, N.J.: International - Finance Section, Dept. of Economics, Princeton University
- Morgenthau, Henry. Jr.
- Polak, Jacques. 2000. Oral history interview with Jacques J. Polak, 2000, Louis Emmerij (Interviewer) (Held at Colombia University)
- White, Harry Dexter.
Multimedia
- Bänziger, Hugo. (Bretton Woods) Interview with Barry Eichengreen. Finance & History Podcast audio. August 12, 2021.
