韋伯斯特婚姻美滿,並成為哈特福市的精英,但並不富有。1793年亞歷山大·漢密爾頓以1500美元的薪金聘請他到紐約編輯一份聯邦制擁護者的報紙。12月他創立了紐約第一份日報《American Minerva》(後來的《商業廣告報》)。他做了四年編輯,寫了相當於20期的文章和社論。他還出版了半周刊《The Herald, A Gazette for the country》(後來的《紐約觀察家》)。作為黨羽,他很快就被擁護傑斐遜的共和黨人公開抨擊為「懦弱的,自以為是的愛國者」,「無可救藥的瘋子」,「虛偽的饒舌者……假裝博學者和庸醫」,即使是聯邦制擁護者科伯特也把他描述為「擁護聯邦制的賣國者」,「偉大的傻瓜和無恥的騙子」。這個文字大師非常苦惱,就算是「民主」,「人民」,「平等」這樣的字眼都會在公眾辯論中使他困擾,因為這些詞都是形而上的抽象,要麼沒有意義,要麼有意義但沒有凡人能理解。
"Noah Webster" in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). vol 18 section 25:33 online edition(頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
Bynack, Vincent P. "Noah Webster and the Idea of a National Culture: the Pathologies of Epistemology." Journal of the History of Ideas 1984 45(1): 99–114. ISSN0022-5037in Jstor
Ellis, Joseph J.After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture 1979. chapter 6, interpretive essay online edition(頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
Gallardo, Andres. "The Standardization of American English." PhD dissertation State U. of New York, Buffalo 1980. 367 pp. DAI 1981 41(8): 3557-A. 8104193, focused on Webster's dictionary
Hayakawa, Isamu. A Comprehensive Catalog of Webster's Dictionaries from 1808 to 2000 (2014) Amazon (Tokyo: Texnai).
Kendall, Joshua. The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture (2011)
Leavitt, Robert Keith. Noah's Ark New England Yankees and the Endless Quest: a Short History of the Original Webster Dictionaries, With Particular Reference to Their First Hundred Years (1947). 106 pp
Lepore, Jill. "Noah's Mark: Webster and the original dictionary wars." The New Yorker, (November 6, 2006). 78–87. online edition(頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
Malone, Kemp. "Webster, Noah," Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 10 (1936)
Micklethwait, David. Noah Webster and the American Dictionary (2005)
Morgan, John S. Noah Webster (1975), popular biography
Moss, Richard J. Noah Webster. (1984). 131 pp. Wester as author
Nelson, C. Louise. "Neglect of Economic Education in Webster's 'Blue-Backed Speller'" American Economist, Vol. 39, 1995 online edition(頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
Proudfit, Isabel. Noah Webster Father of the Dictionary (1966).
Rollins, Richard. The Long Journey of Noah Webster (1980) (ISBN0-8122-7778-3)
Rollins, Richard M. "Words as Social Control: Noah Webster and the Creation of the American Dictionary". American Quarterly 1976 28(4): 415–430. ISSN0003-0678
Scudder, Horace E.Noah Webster. Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press. 1881 [2018-02-12]. (原始內容存檔於2020-08-06). (from the series American Men of Letters. New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company)
Snyder, K. Alan. Defining Noah Webster: Mind and Morals in the Early Republic. (1990). 421 pp.
Unger, Harlow Giles. Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot (1998), scholarly biography
Warfel, Harry R. Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America (1936), a standard biography
主要資料
Harry R. Warfel, ed., Letters of Noah Webster (1953),
Homer D. Babbidge Jr., ed., Noah Webster: On Being American (1967), selections from his writings
Webster, Noah. The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language for the Use of Schools in the United States by Noah Webster1836 edition online(頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館), the famous Blue- Backed Speller