The following is a bibliography of Alberta history.

Surveys and reference

• "Alberta Online Encyclopedia". Heritage Community Foundation. 2009., a short encyclopedia
• "The Canadian Encyclopedia". Historica Canada. 2008. a very good starting point
• "The Dictionary of Canadian Biography". University of Toronto/Université Laval. 2017. scholarly biographies of every important person who died by 1930
• Cashman, Tony (197). A Picture History of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig. ISBN 978-0-88830-157-4.
• Friesen, Gerald (1987). The Canadian Prairies: A History (student ed.). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-6648-0.
• MacGregor, James Grierson (1972). A History of Alberta. Hurtig. ISBN 978-0-88830-063-8.
• Owram, Doug; Macleod, R. C., eds. (1979). The Formation of Alberta: a documentary history. Alberta Records Publication Board, Historical Society of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-987-4. primary sources
• Palmer, Howard; Palmer, Tamara (1990). Alberta: A New History. Hurtig Publishers. ISBN 978-0-88830-340-0., standard survey by leading historian
• Payne, Michael; Wetherell, Donald; Cavanaugh, Catherine, eds. (2006). Alberta formed, Alberta transformed. Vol. 1. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-194-6.
• Payne, Michael; Wetherell, Donald; Cavanaugh, Catherine, eds. (2006). Alberta formed, Alberta transformed. Vol. 2. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-194-6.
• Pitsula, James M. (2005). "Disparate Duo". The Beaver. 85 (4): 14–24., a comparison with Saskatchewan, Fulltext in EBSCO
• Herk, Aritha Van (2001). Mavericks: An Incorrigable History Of Alberta. Penguin Canada. ISBN 978-0-14-317695-4. OL 7643613M. 14 popular essays on the fur trade, aboriginal peoples, exploration, the North-West Mounted Police, ranchers, homesteaders, territorial and provincial politics, women, and Albertan culture.
• Wardhaugh, Robert, ed. (2001). Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History. University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 978-0-88755-388-2.

Economics, business, labour

• Ascah, Robert L. (1999). Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta's Social Credit. University of Alberta Press. ISBN 978-0-88864-306-3.
• Bercuson, David Jay, ed. (1978). Alberta's Coal Industry, 1919. Alberta Records Publication Board: Historical Society of Alberta. 1919 primary source
• Breen, David (1993). Alberta's Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-245-5. OL 1166756M.
• Breen, David H., ed. (1984). William Stewart Herron: Father of the Petroleum Industry in Alberta. Calgary: Alberta Records Publication Board: Historical Society of Alberta. OCLC 1132018842. primary sources
• Bright, David (1998). The Limits of Labour: Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929. UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-4166-5. OL 9849978M.Online
• Burrill, Gary (1992). Away. Maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario and Alberta: An Oral History of Leaving Home. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0899-6. JSTOR j.ctt819s3. A primary source; interviews with oil workers
• Chastko, Paul Anthony (2004). Developing Alberta's Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-124-3. OL 3452312M. Author's discussion
• Ferguson, Barry Glen (1986). Athabasca oil sands: northern resource exploration, 1875-1951. Alberta Culture. ISBN 978-0-88977-039-3.
• Hart, E. J. (1983). The selling of Canada: the CPR and the beginnings of Canadian tourism. Altitude Pub. ISBN 978-0-919381-09-4.
• Hayward, Anne. Alberta pottery industry, 1912-1990: A social and economic history (University of Ottawa Press, 2001).
• House, J. D.; Studies, Carleton University. Institute of Canadian (1980). The last of the free enterprisers: the oilmen of Calgary. Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 978-0-7705-1846-2.
• Johnston, Alex; Gladwyn, Keith G.; Ellis, L. Gregory (1989). Lethbridge, its coal industry. Lethbridge Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-919224-81-0.
• Kennedy, Margaret Anne (1997). The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Study. P. Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-2596-2. OL 1105516M.
• Klassen, Henry C. (1999). A Business History of Alberta. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-022-2.
• Parker, James McPherson (1987). Emporium of the north: Fort Chipewyan and the fur trade to 1835. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism and University of Regina - Canadian Plains Research Center. ISBN 978-0-88977-044-7.
• Richards, John; Pratt, Larry (1979). Prairie capitalism: power and influence in the New West. McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-7177-5. influential Marxist interpretation
• Schneider, Ena (1991). Ribbons of Steel: The Story of the Northern Alberta Railways. Calgary: Detselig. ISBN 978-1-5505-9239-9.
• Wetherell, Donald Grant; Kmet, Irene (1990). Useful Pleasures: The Shaping of Leisure in Alberta, 1896-1945. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism and University of Regina - Canadian Plains Research Center. ISBN 9780889770584.
• Thompson, John Herd, and Allen Seager. "Workers, Growers and Monopolists: The" Labour Problem" in the Alberta Beet Sugar Industry During the 1930s." Labour/Le Travail (1978): 153-174. online

First Nations, Metis

• Drees, Laurie Meijer (2002). The Indian Association of Alberta: A History of Political Action. University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-0877-4.
• McClintock, Walter (1910). The Old North Trail: Or, Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians. London: Macmillan and Company.; and The Old North Trail: Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians at Google Books
• Pocklington, T.C. (1991). The Government and Politics of the Alberta Metis Settlements. Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina Press. ISBN 978-0-88977-060-7.
• Price, Richard, ed. (1999). The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties (third ed.). University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-327-8.
• Samek, Hana (1987). The Blackfoot Confederacy 1880-1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-5069-5.
• Ward, Donald Bruce (1995). The People: A Historical Guide to the First Nations of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Fifth House. ISBN 978-1-895618-56-3.

High culture

• Ainslie, Patricia; LaViolette, Mary-Beth (2007). Alberta Art and Artists: An Overview. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. ISBN 9781894856614.
• Calder, Alison; Wardhaugh, Robert, eds. (2005). History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies. University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 978-0-88755-324-0.
• Keahey, Deborah (1998). Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature. University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 978-0-88755-341-7.
• Johns, Walter Hugh (1981). A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-1969. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-025-3.
• Melnyk, George (1998). The Literary History of Alberta: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-296-7.
• Melnyk, George (1998). The Literary History of Alberta: From the end of the war to the end of the century. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-324-7.

Politics and government

• Aberhart, William (1991). Elliott, David R. (ed.). Aberhart: Outpourings and Replies. Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta. ISBN 1-895379-08-3. - Primary Source
• Barr, John J. (1974). The dynasty : the rise and fall of social credit in Alberta. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-1015-X.
• Bell, Edward (1993). Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta. McGill-Queens's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-1169-5.
• Boudreau, Joseph A., ed. Alberta, Aberhart and Social Credit. Canadian History Through the Press. Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1975. 122 pp. - newspaper reports; primary source
• Bruce, Christopher; Kneebone, Ronald; McKenzie, Kenneth, eds. (1997). A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program. Toronto: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-541269-9.
• Caldarola, Carlo, ed. Society and Politics in Alberta: Research Papers. Toronto: Methuen, 1979. 392 pp.
• Elliott, David R. and Iris Miller. Bible Bill: A Biography of William Aberhart. Edmonton: Reidmore Books, 1987. 373 pp.
• Finkel, Alvin (1989). The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta (State and Economic Life). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5821-3.
• Gray, James Henry (1991). R.B. Bennett: the Calgary years. Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-5975-8. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
• Hesketh, Bob. Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit. U. of Toronto Press, 1997. 315 pp.
• Hewitt, Steve. Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939. (2006). 205 pp. excerpt and text search
• Johnson, William (2005). Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada. Douglas Gibson Books. ISBN 978-0-7710-4350-5. OL 8075861M.
• Lin, Zhiqiu. Policing the Wild North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32 (2007) online
• Masson, Jack K. (1994). Alberta's Local Governments: Politics and Democracy. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 0-88864-251-2.
• Mardon, Ernest, and Austin Mardon. Alberta Election Results 1882–1992. Edmonton: Documentary Heritage Society of Alberta (1993).
• Monto, Tom. The United Farmers of Alberta: A Movement, A Government (Edmonton: GranhPublishing, 1989)
• Rennie, Bradford James, ed. (2004). Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century. Regina, Saskatchewan: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina. ISBN 0-88977-151-0. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
• Rennie, James Bradford (2000). The Rise of Agrarian Democracy: The United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta, 1909-1921. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-8374-9.
• Raymaker, Darryl (2017). Trudeau's tango: Alberta meets Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-1972. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 978-1-77212-265-7.
• Thomas, Lewis H., ed. William Aberhart and Social Credit in Alberta. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1977. 175 pp. readings
• Thomas, Lewis Gwynne (1959). The Liberal Party in Alberta. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5083-2. OL 18824816M.
• Tupper, Allan; Gibbins, Roger, eds. (1992). Government and Politics in Alberta. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 0-88864-243-1. - Textbook
• Walchuk, Walter (1987). Alberta's local governments: people in community seeking goodness. Edmonton: Municipal Administrative Services Division, Alberta Municipal Affairs. ISBN 978-0-7732-0014-2.

Regional, urban, environment

• Belliveau, Anne. The Story of Alberta's Big West Country: Upper North Saskatchewan River Corridor, Shunda Basin, Brazeau Collieries and Nordegg. Calgary: Detselig, 1999. 240 pp.
• Conrad, Norman C. (1999). Reading the Entrails: An Alberta Ecohistory. Calgary, Alta.: University of Calgary Press. ISBN 9781552380123.
• Foran, Max; Jameson, Sheilagh S., eds. (1987). Citymakers: Calgarians after the Frontier. Historical Society of Alberta. ISBN 0-88925-725-6.
• Foran, Max; Foran, Heather MacEwan (1982). Calgary, Canada's Frontier Metropolis an Illustrated History. Windsor, Ont.: Windsor Publications Inc. ISBN 978-0-89781-055-5.
• Foran, Max. Calgary: An Illustrated History/Calgary: Histoire Illustrée. Toronto: Lorimer; Ottawa: Natl. Mus. of Man, 1978. 192 pp.
• Hesketh, Bob; Swyripa, Frances, eds. (1995). Edmonton: The Life of a City. Edmonton, Alta.: NeWest. ISBN 1-896300-02-2.
• Johnston, Alex (1985). Lethbridge: A Centennial History. City of Lethbridge & Historical Society of Alberta. ISBN 0-919224-42-3.
• MacDonald, Graham A. Where the Mountains Meet the Prairies: A History of Waterton Country. (Parks and Heritage Series, No. 3.) U. of Calgary Press, 2000. 210 pp.
• Melnyk, Bryan P. Calgary Builds: The Emergence of an Urban Landscape, 1905-1914. Calgary: Alberta Culture, Can. Plains Res. Center, 1985. 214 pp.
• Rasporich, Anthony W.; Klassen, Henry C. (1975). Frontier Calgary: Town, City, and Region 1875-1914. Calgary, Alta.: University of Calgary & McClelland and Stewart West. ISBN 0-7712-1017-5.
• Reasons, Charles E., ed. (1984). Stampede City: Power and Politics in the West. Toronto: Between the Lines. ISBN 0-919946-46-1. - impact of oil on Calgary
• Smith, Donald B. (1994). Centennial City: Calgary, 1894-1994. Calgary, Alta.: University of Calgary. ISBN 1-895176-57-3.
• Taft, Kevin (2017). Oil's Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming -- in Alberta, and in Ottawa. James Lorimer & Company. ISBN 978-1-4594-0999-6.
• Timoney, Kevin P., and Peter Lee. "Does the Alberta tar sands industry pollute? The scientific evidence." The Open Conservation Biology Journal 3.1 (2009) online.
• Wetherell, Donald G.; Kmet, Irene R. A. (2000). Alberta's North: A History, 1890-1950. University of Alberta Press. ISBN 0-88864-342-X.
• Wetherell, Donald G.; Kmet, Irene R. A. (1995). Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta, 1880-1947. University of Alberta Press.

Settlement, rural, pioneers

• Baker, William M., ed. (1993). Pioneer Policing in Southern Alberta: Deane of the Mounties, 1888-1914. Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta. ISBN 0-929123-02-6.
• Bennett, John W. and Seena B. Kohl. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building. An Anthropological History. U. of Nebraska Press, 1995. 311 pp. online
• Bowen, Lynne (1992). Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 1-55054-053-X.
• Brado, Edward. Cattle Kingdom: Early Ranching in Alberta. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1984. 298 pp.
• Brunvand, Jan Harold (1974). Norwegian Settlers in Alberta. National Museum of Man, Mercury Series, Canadian Centre for Folk Cultural Studies, Paper no. 8. Ottawa: National Museum of Man.
• Danysk, Cecilia (1995). Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc. ISBN 0-7710-2552-1.
• Hurt, Leslie J. The Victoria Settlement, 1862-1922. Occasional Paper, no. 7. Edmonton: Alberta Culture, Hist. Resources Division, 1979. 242 pp.
• Jaques, Carrol (2001). Unifarm: A Story of Conflict and Change. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 1-55238-051-3.
• Jones, David C. Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. U. of Nebraska Press, 1987. 330 pp.
• Jones, David C., ed. "We'll All Be Buried Down Here": The Prairie Dryland Disaster, 1917-1926. Calgary: Alberta Records Publ. Board; Hist. Soc. of Alberta, 1986. 200 pp. collects primary sources
• Leonard, David W. Delayed Frontier: The Peace River Country to 1909. Calgary, Alta.: Detselig, 1995. 256 pp.
• Palmer, Howard. The Settlement of the West (1977) online edition
• Rennie, Bradford James. The Rise of Agrarian Democracy: The United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta, 1909-1921. U of Toronto Press, 2000. 282 pp.
• Gross, Renie. Groundwork: Carl Anderson, Farm Crusader. Wardlow, Alta.: Badlands Books, 1998. 352 pp.
• Jackson, Mary Percy. Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931. ed. by Janice Dickin McGinnis, Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1995. 264 pp.; a primary source
• Sharp, Paul F. Whoop-up Country: The Canadian-American West, 1865-1885. Reprint ed., Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1973. 347pp. primary source
• Silverman, Eliane Leslau. The Last Best West: Women on the Alberta Frontier 1880-1930. Montreal: Eden, 1984. 183 pp.
• Thompson, John Herd. Forging the Prairie West. (1998)
• Voisey, Paul. Vulcan: The Making of a Prairie Community. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1987. 341 pp.

Social, ethnic, religion and schools

• Banack, Clark (Spring 2014). "Evangelical Christianity and Political Thought in Alberta.'". Journal of Canadian Studies. 48 (2): 70–99. doi:10.3138/jcs.48.2.70. S2CID 145237154.
• Byrne, M. B. From the Buffalo to the Cross: A History of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary. Calgary Archdiocese. 555 pp.
• Cavanaugh, Catherine A. and Warne, Randi R., ed. Standing on New Ground: Women in Alberta. U. of Alberta Press, 1993. 202 pp.
• den Otter, Andy A. Civilizing the West: The Galts and the Development of Western Canada. U. of Alberta Press, 1981. 395 pp.
• Flint, David. The Hutterites: A Study in Prejudice. Oxford U. Press, 1975. 193 pp.
• Gray, James. Booze: The Impact of Whisky On the Prairie West (Toronto: Macmillan, 1972.)
• Hoe, Ban Seng. Structural Changes of Two Chinese Communities in Alberta, Canada. Mercury Series, no. 19. Ottawa: Natl. Mus. of Man, Can. Centre for Folk Culture Studies, 1976. 385 pp.
• McLachlan, Elizabeth. With Unshakeable Persistence: Rural Teachers of the Depression Era. Edmonton: NeWest, 1999. 187 pp.
• Palmer, Howard and Palmer, Tamara, eds. Peoples of Alberta: Portraits of Cultural Diversity. Saskatoon, Sask.: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1985. 551 pp.
• Palmer, Howard. Patterns of Prejudice: A History of Nativism in Alberta. McClelland and Stewart, 1982. 217 pp.
• Scheffel, David. In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers in Alberta. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 1991. 252 pp.
• Stebbins, Robert A. The Franco-Calgarians: French Language, Leisure, and Linguistic Life-Style in an Anglophone City. U. of Toronto Press, 1994. 152 pp.
• Ukrainian Pioneers' Association of Alberta. Ukrainians in Alberta. Edmonton: Ukrainian Pioneers' Assoc. of Alberta (1975) 560 pp.
• Wall, Karen L. Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta (2013) online review
• Williams, Robert J., Yale D. Belanger, and Jennifer N. Arthur. "Gambling in Alberta: History, current status and socioeconomic impacts" (Alberta Gaming Research Institute, 2011) online.

See also

• Bibliography of Canada
• Bibliography of Canadian history
• Bibliography of Nova Scotia
• Bibliography of Saskatchewan history
• Bibliography of British Columbia
• Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada
• List of books about the War of 1812