韦伯斯特婚姻美满,并成为哈特福市的精英,但并不富有。1793年亚历山大·汉密尔顿以1500美元的薪金聘请他到纽约编辑一份联邦制拥护者的报纸。12月他创立了纽约第一份日报《American Minerva》(后来的《商业广告报》)。他做了四年编辑,写了相当于20期的文章和社论。他还出版了半周刊《The Herald, A Gazette for the country》(后来的《纽约观察家》)。作为党羽,他很快就被拥护杰斐逊的共和党人公开抨击为“懦弱的,自以为是的爱国者”,“无可救药的疯子”,“虚伪的饶舌者……假装博学者和庸医”,即使是联邦制拥护者科伯特也把他描述为“拥护联邦制的卖国者”,“伟大的傻瓜和无耻的骗子”。这个文字大师非常苦恼,就算是“民主”,“人民”,“平等”这样的字眼都会在公众辩论中使他困扰,因为这些词都是形而上的抽象,要么没有意义,要么有意义但没有凡人能理解。
"Noah Webster" in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). vol 18 section 25:33 online edition(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
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(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
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(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
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(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
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]. (原始内容存档于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
主要资料
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(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), the famous Blue- Backed Speller