Author talk:Martha Joanna Lamb

Literary career

• The Play School Studies (4 vols., Boston, 1869)
• Aunt Mattie's Library, a series of books for children including: “Merry Christmas,” “Drifting Goodword,” “Fun and Profit” and “Sabbath Schools.” (4 vols., Boston, 1871)
• Spicy, chronicles the great Chicago fire (New York, 1873)
• Harper's Magazine, 1876:
  • “Lyme, A Chapter of American Genealogy”
  • “Newark,” a complete sketch of that city
  • “Tombs of Old Trinity”
• “State and Society in Washington,” Harper's Magazine, Volume 56, Issue 334 (March 1878), pp. 481–500.
• “The Coast Survey,” Harper's Magazine, 1879
• The Homes of America (New York, 1879)
• Memorial of Dr. J. D. Russ, a philanthropist (New York, 1880)
• The Christmas Owl: A Budget of Entertainment, editor, collection of poems shaped like an owl (New York, 1881)
• The Christmas Basket Holiday Entertainment, editor, shaped like an basket (New York, 1882)
• Snow and Sunshine (New York, 1882)
• “The American Life Saving Service,” Harper's Magazine, 1882
• “Historical Sketch of New York,” for the Tenth United States Census, 1883
• Wall Street in History (New York, 1883)
• Magazine of American History, 1884
  • “Unsuccessful Candidates for the Presidency of the Nation”
  • “The Van Rensselaer Manor”
• Magazine of American History, 1885
  • “The Framers of the Constitution”
  • “The Manor of Gardiner's Island”
  • “Sketch of Major-General John A. Dix”
• Magazine of American History, 1886
  • “The Van Cortlandt Manor House”
  • “Historic Homes in Lafayette Place”
  • “The Founder, Presidents and Homes of the New York Historical Society”
• Magazine of American History, 1887
  • “The Historic Homes of our Presidents”
  • “Historic Homes on Golden Hills”
  • “The Manor of Shelter Island”
• Magazine of American History, 1888
  • “Foundation of Civil Government beyond the Ohio River, 1788-1888”
  • “The Inauguration of Washington in 1789,” written by special request of the New York Historical Society
• Magazine of American History, 1889
  • “Historic Homes and Landmarks in New York,” three papers
  • “The Story of the Washington Centennial”
• Magazine of American History, 1890
  • “America's Congress of Historical Scholars”
  • “Our South American Neighbors”
  • “American Outgrowths of Continental Europe”
  • “The Golden Age of Colonial New York”
• “Formative Influences,” The Forum, 1890
• Magazine of American History, 1891
  • “William H. Seward, a Great Public Character”
  • “Glimpses of the Railroad in History”
  • “The Royal Society of Canada”
  • “Some Interesting Facts about Electricity”
  • “A Group of Columbus Portraits”
  • “Judge Charles Johnson McCurdy”
• Magazine of American History, 1892
  • “The Walters Collection of Art Treasures”
  • “Progression of Steam Navigation, 1807-1892”
• The History of the City of New York: Its Origin, Rise, and Progress. (2 vols.) 1877-81 (her most noted work, the product of about fifteen years of patient labor and research