- Monographs On Education in California
- Public Education in California: Its Origin and Development, with Personal Reminiscences of Half a Century - Primary Source Edition
- History of the public school system of California
- Address of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of California, Hon. John Swett, Before the State Teachers' Institute, Held in San Francisco, May 7Th, 1867
- Bancroft's First[-Fifth] Reader, Book 1