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