Capshew, James H. "The Campus as a Pedagogical Agent: Herman B Wells, Cultural Entrepreneurship, and the Benton Murals." Indiana Magazine of History 105, no. 2 (2009): 179-97.
Capshew, James H. "Making Herman B Wells: Moral Development and Emotional Trauma in a Boone County Boyhood." Indiana Magazine of History 107, no. 4 (2011): 361-76.
Hinkle, Sara E. “Herman B. Wells Champion for Racial Equality at Indiana University.” Journal of the Student Personnel Association at Indiana 30, no. 1 (2001): 10-31.
Walker, George E. "Herman B Wells, 7 June 1902 · 18 March 2000." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 146, no. 2 (2002): 224-28.
D. W. R. "Herman B Wells Talks about International Education." The Phi Delta Kappan 49, no. 4 (1967): 2000-03.
Books
Bantin, C. and James H. Capshew, eds. The Wells Archive: Exploring the World of Higher Education. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Libraries, 2000.
Capshew, James H. Herman B Wells: The Promise of the American University. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012.
Wells, Herman B. Being Lucky: Reminiscences and Reflections. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012.
Capshew, James H, ed. Students in Residence: At Home with Herman B Wells. Bloomington: Privately printed, 1991, 16 pp.