• The Incorporation of America, a hypertext project for American Studies at the University of Virginia.
• The Chautauqua Institution: The official website.
• The Chautauqua Idea: a Smithsonian Insitute web exhibit on Chautauqua.
• C.L.S.C reading lists from 1878-2000.
• Traveling Culture: an award winning site on Circuit Chautauqua from the University of Iowa Libraries.
• Mary Artemesia Lathbury: Biography and music of the "Poet Laureate of Chautauqua."

Bestor, Arthur Eugene, Jr. Chautauqua Publications: An Historical and Bibliographical Guide. Chautauqua, NY: Chautauqua Press, 1934.

Briggs, Irene and Raymond F. DaBoll. Recollections of the Lyceum and Chautauqua Circuits. Freeport, ME: The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1969.

The Chautauquan. Ed. Theodore L. Flood. Jamestown, N.Y.: M. Bailey, Publisher, 1880-1814. 1:1 (October 1880) - 72:38 (May 1914). Microfilm.American Periodical Series. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, n.d. 14 reels 173-186.

Campen, Richard N. Chautauqua Impressions: Architecture and Ambience. Chagrin Falls, OH: West Summit Press, 1984.

Gould, Joseph E. The Chautauqua Movement: An Episode in the Continuing American Revolution. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1961.

Harrison, Harry P., as told to Karl Detzer. Culture Under Canvas: The Story of Tent Chautauqua. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1958.

Hayes, Rebecca Saunders. "George Edward Vincent: Son of Chautauqua." MA Thesis. University of Virginia, 1990.

Irwin, Alfreda L. Three Taps of the Gavel: Pledge to the Future, The Chautauqua Story. Chautauqua, NY: Chautauqua Institution, 1970.

Morrison, Theodore. Chautauqua: A Center for Education, Religion and the Arts in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Orchard, Hugh A. Fifty Years of Chautauqua: Its Beginnings, Its Development, Its Message and Its Life. Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1923.

Pansy [Isabella Macdonald Alden]. The Chautauqua Girls at Home. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1877.

---. Four Girls at Chautauqua. Boston: D. Lothrop, 1876.

---. Four Mothers at Chautauqua. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1997.

Richmond, Rebecca. Chautauqua: An American Place. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

Simpson, Jeffrey. Chautauqua: An American Utopia, with Photographs by Paul Solomon. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999.

Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.

Vincent, John H. The Chautauqua Movement. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1885.

Vincent, Leon H. John Heyl Vincent: A Biographical Sketch. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925.