Thomas Jefferson : a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writings about him (1826-1980)

© 1983, Frank Shuffelton, editor
Print version published by Garland Publishing (New York, 1983).

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1251
Name: Vest , George G.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, An Address. Delivered at Columbia, Mo., on June 4, 1885

Publisher: Buxton & Skinner
City: St. Louis
Date: 1885
Pages: pp. 24
Notes: Laudatory and rhetorical view of TJ's career.
Reference: 1251

1252
Name: Vest , George G.
Title: Thomas Jefferson. An Address. Delivered Before the Jefferson Club, of St. Louis, Missouri, October 31, 1895, on the occasion of unveiling a bust in bronze of Thomas Jefferson, the work of Benjamin Harney, Esq., a member of the Club.

Publisher: The Jefferson Club
City: St. Louis
Date: 1895
Pages: pp. 21
Notes: Laudatory rhetoric linking TJ with the present day Democratic Party and not the Republicans or Populists.
Reference: 1252

1253
Name: Via , Betty Davis
Title: Monticello's Animal Kingdom

Publisher: For the author
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1967
Pages: pp. (32)
Notes: Domestic and wild animals at Monticello in TJ's time; juvenile.
Reference: 1253

1254
Name: Via , Betty Davis
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Indians

Publisher: The author
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1969
Pages: pp. (32)
Notes: Juvenile; fanciful.
Reference: 1254

1255
Name: Via , Betty Davis
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Letters to Young People

Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1956
Pages: broadside
Notes: Brief notes and extracts from TJ's letters.
Reference: 1255

1256
Name: Via , Vera V.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Uneasy Rest."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 11
Date: 1961
Pages: 27-32.
Notes: The Monticello graveyard.
Reference: 1256

1257
Name: Victor , O. J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Knickerbocker Magazine
Volume: 52
Date: (1858)
Pages: 359-62,479-84
Notes: Review essay of Randall's Life; the first section on TJ's youth is generally admiring, but the second section is a sharp attack on his "inconsistencies."
Reference: 1257

1258
Name: Vogt Per
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Johan Grundt Tanum
City: Oslo
Date: 1946
Pages: pp.344
Notes: Biography in Norwegian.
Reference: 1258

1259
Name: Voorhees , Daniel W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Forty Years of Oratory ... Lectures, Addresses, and Speeches
Publisher: Bowen-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Pages: 43-77
Reference: 1259

1260
Name: Wade , Mary Hazelton
Title: The Boy Who Loved Freedom: The Story of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Appleton
City: New York
Date: 1930
Pages: pp. vii, 235
Notes: Juvenile biography
Reference: 1260

1261
Name: Wagner Julia
Title: Thomas Jefferson, The Man and Patriot

Publisher: Creative Arts Studio
City: Washington
Date: 1949
Pages: pp.16
Notes: A script for an accompanying filmstrip.
Reference: 1261

1262
Name: Anonymous none
Title: Walking With Thomas Jefferson Through Philadelphia History

Publisher: Strawbridge & Clothier
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1949
Pages: folding broadside
Notes: Account of TJ's various stays in Philadelphia; minor.
Reference: 1262

1263
Name: Wallace , M. G.
Title: "Monticello."

Publication: American Monthly Magazine
Volume: 22
Date: (1903)
Pages: 106-07
Reference: 1263

1264
Name: Walne Peter
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Visits to Hertfordshire."

Publication: Hertfordshire Countryside
Volume: 30
Date: 1975
Pages: 16-17
Notes: TJ visits Moor Park; interesting account.
Reference: 1264

1265
Name: Walter , L. Rohe
Title: Thomas Jefferson American Credo Stamp Ceremony, May 18, 1960

Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1960
Pages: pp. 8
Notes: First day of issue ceremony in Charlottesville for postage stamp bearing TJ's vow of hostility against every form of Tyranny.
Reference: 1265

1266
Name: Ward , Paul W.
Title: "Washington Weekly."

Publication: Nation
Volume: 142
Date: (1936)
Pages: 267-68
Notes: Criticizes proposals to spend 30 million for a TJ memorial in St. Louis.
Reference: 1266

1267
Name: Warren Charles
Title: "Fourth of July Myths."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 2
Date: (1945)
Pages: 237-72
Notes: TJ misremembered the date of signing the Declaration; also notes early celebrations of the Fourth as an expression of party spirit.
Reference: 1267

1268
Name: Warren Charles
Title: "How Jefferson's Death Was Reported in the Campaign of 1800"

Publication: Odd Byways in American History
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
City: Cambridge
Date: 1942
Pages: 127-35
Notes: Rumor based on the death of a slave of the same name.
Reference: 1268

1269
Name: Warner , Charles Willard Hoskins
Title: "Jefferson's Williamsburg Friends"

Publication: Road to Revolution: Virginia's Rebels from Bacon to Jefferson
Publisher: Garrett and Massie
City: Richmond
Date: 1961
Pages: 131-42
Notes: Derivative account of Small, Wythe, and Fauquier.
Reference: 1269

1270
Name: Wasserman , Felix M.
Title: "Six Unpublished Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Germanic Review
Volume: 29
Date: (1954)
Pages: 191-200
Notes: Describes the letters in the Library of Congress and discusses Humboldt's interest in TJ and the United States.
Reference: 1270

1271
Name: Watson , Henry C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Lives of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Kelly & Bro.
City: Boston
Date: 1853
Pages: 200-54
Reference: 1271

1272
Name: Watson Ross
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Visit to England, 1786."

Publication: History Today
Volume: 27
Date: (1977)
Pages: 3-13
Notes: Informative, detailed account of TJ's visit which, says the author, strengthened his anti-British prejudices; his introduction to English gardens was the only positive result of the trip.
Reference: 1272

1273
Name: Watson , Thomas E.
Title: The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Appleton
City: New York
Date: 1903
Pages: pp. xxii, 534
Notes: TJ as courageous fighter of religious bigotry, class despotism, and all other kinds of oppression; intended in part as a reply to Theodore Roosevelt's characterization of TJ in his Winnin~ of the West. Revised edition published in 1927.
Reference: 1273

1274
Name: Watson , Thomas E.
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Small, Maynard
City: Boston
Date: 1900
Pages: pp. xv, 150
Notes: In the series "Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans."
Reference: 1274

1275
Name: Weaver , Bettie Woodson
Title: "Mary Jefferson and Eppington."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 19
Date: 1969
Pages: 30-35
Notes: TJ's younger daughter at her aunt's home.
Reference: 1275

1276
Name: Weaver , George Summer
Title: "Thomas Jefferson. Third President of the United States"

Publication: The Lives and Graves of Our Presidents
Publisher: Elder
City: Chicago
Date: 1884
Pages: 119-62
Notes: Sketch ends with a call for "some patriotic national association" to take over Monticello.
Reference: 1276

1277
Name: Webster Daniel
Title: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives and Services of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Delivered at Faneuil Hall, Boston, August 2, 1826

Publisher: Cummings, Hilliard, & Co.
City: Boston
Date: 1826
Pages: pp.62
Notes: Frequently reprinted; credits TJ with authorship of the Declaration and Adams with putting it through Congress. Their lives, spent in gaining for us the blessings of liberty, remind us of the duties which have devolved upon us from our fathers.
Reference: 1277

1278
Name: Webster Daniel
Title: "Memorandum of Mr. J's Conversations"

Publication: Private Correspondence
Publisher: Little Brown
City: Boston
Date: 1857
Pages: 1:364-73
Notes: Webster visited Monticello in December, 1824; TJ talked about Patrick Henry and his experience in France among other topics.
Reference: 1278

1279
Name: Webster , Nathan Burnham
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Lippincott
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1890
Pages: pp. 7
Notes: Separate printing of Chambers' Encyclopedia entry.
Reference: 1279

1280
Name: Wecter Dixon
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Gentle Radical"

Publication: The Hero in America, A Chronicle of Hero Worship
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1941
Pages: 148-180
Notes: Examines TJ's reputation with particular attention to his canonizing by the New Deal.
Reference: 1280

1281
Name: Weeks Elie
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Elk Hill."

Publication: Goochland County Historical Society Magazine
Volume: 3
Date: 1971
Pages: 6-11
Notes: Account of TJ's purchases at Elk Hill from 1778 to 1799, when he sold his property there; conjectural drawing by Calder Loth.
Reference: 1281

1282
Name: Weisman Morris
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Commercial LHW Journal
Volume: 48
Date: (1943)
Pages: 32-35
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 1282

1283
Name: Wertenbaker Thomas Jefferson
Title: "Glimpses of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Emory University Quarterly
Volume: 9
Date: (1953)
Pages: 48-55
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 1283

1284
Name: West Murray
Title: "Jeffersonianism."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 127
Date: 1952
Pages: 4
Notes: If TJ were here, he'd be "a good Truman Democrat."
Reference: 1284

1285
Name: Weymouth , Lally, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Man ... His World ... His Influence

Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1973
Pages: pp. 254
Notes: Introduction to the numerous aspects of TJ with essays by several hands, noted separately here.
Reference: 1285

1286
Name: Wharton , Anne Hollingsworth
Title: "Jeffersonian Simplicity"

Publication: Social Life in the Early Republic
Publisher: Lippincott
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1902
Pages: 102-03
Notes: TJ as host in Washington, D. C.
Reference: 1286

1287
Name: Wharton , Isaac T.
Title: An Oration Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1827, in the State House, in the City of Philadelphia, ....

City: Philadelphia
Date: 1827
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Refers to the death of TJ and Adams, ends by asking "how far we are living up to Mr. Jefferson's doctrines."
Reference: 1287

1288
Name: Anonymous none
Title: "Where Was the Declaration of Independence Written?"

Publication: Potter's American Monthly
Volume: 4
Date: (1875)
Pages: 62-63
Notes: Editor's note commenting on disputed locations; replied to by Agnes Y. McAllister, pp. 223-25, who argues for the house on the southwest corner of Seventh and Market Streets.
Reference: 1288

1289
Name: Whitehill Jane
Title: "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 85
Date: (1961)
Pages: 78-81,211-15
Notes: Review essay of the first 15 volumes of the Papers discusses editorial decisions and the insights offered by the material into the character of TJ.
Reference: 1289

1290
Name: Whitehill , Walter Muir
Title: "The Union of New England and Virginia."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 40
Date: (1964)
Pages: 516-30
Notes: TJ's connections with New England: John Adams, George Ticknor, Ellen Randolph Coolidge.
Reference: 1290

1291
Name: Whitney , David C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The American Presidents
Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Date: 1969
Pages: 27-40
Reference: 1291

1292
Name: Whitton , Mary Ormsbee
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Women"

Publication: First First Ladies 1789-1865: A Study of the Wives of the Early Presidents
Publisher: Hastings House
City: New York
Date: 1948
Pages: 39-53
Notes: TJ, his wife and daughters; he was conservative in regard to women's rights, and "the saga of the three Jefferson ladies" illuminates "the myth of the plantation system."
Reference: 1292

1293
Name: Wibberley Leonard
Title: A Dawn in the Trees; Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1776-1789

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. 188
Notes: Juvenile biography.
Reference: 1293

1294
Name: Wibberley Leonard
Title: The Gales of Spring; Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1789-1801

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Date: 1965
Pages: pp. 180
Notes: Juvenile biography.
Reference: 1294

1295
Name: Wibberley Leonard
Title: Man of Liberty; A Life of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Date: 1968
Pages: pp. vii, 404
Notes: Combines 4 separately printed books; good biography for younger readers.
Reference: 1295

1296
Name: Wibberley Leonard
Title: Time of the Harvest; Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1801-1826

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Date: 1966
Pages: pp. 170
Reference: 1296

1297
Name: Wibberley Leonard
Title: Young Man from the Piedmont; The Youth of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Date: 1963
Pages: pp. 184
Notes: Juvenile biography covering the years 1743-1776.
Reference: 1297

1298
Name: Wiggins , James Russell
Title: Jefferson Through the Fog

Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1959
Pages: pp. 18
Notes: TJ and the issues of 1959, education, desegregation, science, etc.
Reference: 1298

1299
Name: Wilberger , Carolyn H.
Title: "A Tale of Four Travelers: American and Russian Views of Eighteenth-Century France."

Publication: Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages
Volume: 28
Date: 1977
Pages: 39-42
Notes: Franklin, TJ, Fonvizin, and Karamzin; claims TJ "felt threatened by the sophistication of the French aristocracy."
Reference: 1299

1300
Name: Wilbur , Margaret Eyer
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Apostle of Liberty

Publisher: Liveright
City: New York
Date: 1962
Pages: pp. 417
Notes: Popular biography with invented dialogue.
Reference: 1300

1301
Name: Wilkins William
Title: Eulogium of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Pronounced at itts urg, on the 24th August, 1826

Publisher: Johnston & Stockton
City: Pittsburgh
Date: 1826
Pages: pp. 36
Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies .... Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. 347-77 .
Reference: 1301

1302
Name: Williams Edwin
Title: "Biographical Sketch" and "Administration of Jefferson"

Publication: The Presidents of the United States, Their Memoirs and Administrations
Publisher: E. Walker
City: New York
Date: 1849
Pages: 107-64
Notes: "... rather the policy of the politician than the policy of the statesman, the legislator, the lawgiver, or the patriot."
Reference: 1302

1303
Name: Williams , T. Harry
Title: "On the Couch at Monticello."

Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 2
Date: (1974)
Pages: 523-29
Notes: Review essay prompted by Brodie's Thomas Jefferson argues that she has misused psychoanalytic and psychological techniques in interpreting TJ's private life.
Reference: 1303

1304
Name: Wills Garry
Title: "Uncle Thomas's Cabin."

Publication: New York Review of Books
Volume: 21
Date: 1974
Pages: 26-28
Notes: Criticizes Fawn Brodie's inaccuracies.
Reference: 1304

1305
Name: Wilson , Rufus Rockwell
Title: "The Jeffersonian Epoch"

Publication: Washington The Capital City and Its Part in the History of the Nation
Publisher: Lippincott
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1901
Pages: 1:67-96
Notes: Focus on life in Washington during TJ's presidency.
Reference: 1305

1306
Name: Wilson Woodrow
Title: "A Calendar of Great Americans."

Publication: The Forum
Volume: 16
Date: (1894)
Pages: 715-27
Notes: Reprinted in Mere Literature. Boston, 1896. 196-99. "Jefferson was not a thorough American because of the strain of French philosophy that permeated and weakened all his thought."
Reference: 1306

1307
Name: Wilson Woodrow
Title: "Jefferson-Wilson, A Record and a Forecast. Extracts from 'A History of the American People' by Woodrow Wilson."

Publication: North American Review
Volume: 197
Date: (1913)
Pages: 289-94
Notes: The newly elected Democratic president on the first Democrat.
Reference: 1307

1308
Name: Wilson Woodrow
Title: "The Spirit of Jefferson."

Publication: Princeton Alumni Weekly
Volume: 6
Date: (1906)
Pages: 551-54
Notes: "It is the spirit, not the tenets of the man, by which he rules us from his urn."
Reference: 1308

1309
Name: Wilstach , Paul M., ed.
Title: Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (1812...1826)

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Date: 1925
Pages: pp. 197
Notes: Selected and abridged texts with editorial commentary.
Reference: 1309

1310
Name: Wilstach Paul
Title: "A Great Man's Gift to His Grandson."

Publication: St. Nicholas
Volume: 55
Date: (1928)
Pages: 699-700
Notes: TJ willed Poplar Forest to Francis Eppes.
Reference: 1310

1311
Name: Wilstach Paul
Title: Jefferson and Monticello

Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Date: 1925
Pages: pp.xiii,258
Notes: Biographical account of TJ's life at Monticello has interesting anecdotes. Comprehensive, although uncritical, social history of Monticello.
Reference: 1311

1312
Name: Wilstach Paul
Title: "Jefferson Out of Harness."

Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 4
Date: (1925)
Pages: 63-68
Notes: TJ's sense of humor as revealed in his letters.
Reference: 1312

1313
Name: Wilstach , Paul. ed.
Title: "Reconciliation: Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 138
Date: (1924)
Pages: 811-19
Notes: Discussion of the correspondence from 1812 on, with extracts.
Reference: 1313

1314
Name: Wilstach Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Patriots Off Their Pedestals
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Date: 1927
Pages: 145-82
Notes: Domestic, familiar TJ, told via anecdotes.
Reference: 1314

1315
Name: Wilstach Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Secret Home."

Publication: Country Life
Volume: 53
Date: 1928
Pages: 41-43
Notes: On Poplar Forest.
Reference: 1315

1316
Name: Windley , Lathan A.
Title: "Runaway Slave Advertisements of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Journal of Negro History
Volume: 63
Date: (1978)
Pages: 373-74
Notes: Prints an advertisement from the Virginia Gazette of Sept. 21, 1769, without any significant comment.
Reference: 1316

1317
Name: Winstock , Melvin G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Making a Nation
Publisher: Making a Nation Co.
City: Portland, Oregon
Date: 1923
Pages: 109-30
Reference: 1317

1318
Name: Winston Alexander
Title: "Mr. Jefferson in Paris."

Publication: American Society Legion of Honor Magazine
Volume: 35
Date: (1964)
Pages: 139-50
Notes: Survey, nothing new.
Reference: 1318

1319
Name: Wirt , F. A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Celebration."

Publication: Agricultural Engineering
Volume: 25
Date: (1944)
Pages: 192, 196
Notes: Report on agriculturalists' pilgrimage to Monticello.
Reference: 1319

1320
Name: Wirt William
Title: A Discourse on the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Who Both Died on the Fourth of July 1826: Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Washington, in the Hall of Representatives of the United States, on the Nineteenth of October, 1826

Publisher: Gales & Seaton
City: Washington
Date: 1826
Pages: pp. 69
Notes: Often reprinted; includes a description of Monticello and its resident sage.
Reference: 1320

1321
Name: Wise , Henry A.
Title: Seven Decades of the Union. The Humanities and Materialism, Illustrated by A Memoir of John Tyler, With Reminiscences of Some of His Great Contemporaries.

Publisher: Lippincott
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1871
Pages: 35-51
Notes: Discusses TJ and events of his administration; claims one of his great contributions to science was bringing Ferdinand Hassler, the geodesist, to America.
Reference: 1321

1322
Name: Wise , James Waterman
Title: Thomas Jefferson Then and Now, 1743-1943— A National Symposium

Publication: Bill of Rights Sesquicentennial Committee
Publisher: none
City: New York
Date: 1943
Pages: pp. 143
Notes: 54 prominent Americans contribute brief panegyrics.
Reference: 1322

1323
Name: Witt , Cornelis de
Title: "Thomas Jefferson. Sa Vie et Sa Correspondance. 1. La Revolution Americaine et la Revolution Francaise."

Publication: Revue des Deux Mondes
Volume: ser. 2. 8
Date: (1857)
Pages: 536-86
Notes: Discusses TJ's life through his mission to France and his arrival at the opinion that the decisions of one generation should not bind the next.
Reference: 1323

1324
Name: Witt , Cornelis de
Title: "Thomas Jefferson. Sa Vie et Sa Correspondance. IV. Jefferson dans la Retraite."

Publication: Revue des Deux Mondes
Volume: ser. 2. 29
Date: (1860)
Pages: 78-108
Notes: TJ's retirement of all his actions does him the most honor.
Reference: 1324

1325
Name: Wittke , Carl F.
Title: Jefferson Lives on. A Lecture Delivered at The Ohio State University, October 26, 1942

Publisher: Ohio State Univ.
City: Columbus
Date: (1942)
Pages: pp.22
Notes: Survey of TJ's character and achievements, calling on Americans "to expand his conception of individual rights."
Reference: 1325

1326
Name: Witty Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: A Free Nation; The Beginning of the United States
Publisher: Highlights for Children
City: Columbus, Ohio
Date: 1975
Pages: 4-5
Reference: 1326

1327
Name: Wold , Karl C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826"

Publication: Mr. President, How Is Your Health?
Publisher: Bruce Publishing Co.
City: Saint Paul, Minn.
Date: 1948
Pages: 23-33
Reference: 1327

1328
Name: Wolff Philippe
Title: "Jefferson on Provence and Languedoc."

Publication: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History
Volume: 3
Date: (1975)
Pages: 191-205
Notes: Examines TJ's letters written during his tour of southern France and compares him favorably as a traveller to Arthur Young.
Reference: 1328

1329
Name: Wolff Philippe
Title: "Le voyage de Thomas Jefferson en Provence et Languedoc en 1787.

Publication: Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise
Volume: 48
Date: (1976)
Pages: 595-613
Notes: Similar to the previous item.
Reference: 1329

1330
Name: Wood Wallace
Title: "Jefferson, A.D. 1743-1826, American Statesman"

Publication: The Hundred Greatest Men. Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men of History
Publisher: Appleton
City: New York
Date: 1885
Pages: 438-40
Reference: 1330

1331
Name: Woodbridge Margaret
Title: "Monticello."

Publication: U.S. Tobacco Review
Volume: Winter
Date: 1978
Pages: 4-8
Reference: 1331

1332
Name: Woodfin , Maude Hewlett
Title: "Contemporary Opinion in Virginia of Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Essays in Honor of William E. Dodd, ed. Avery Craven
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1935
Pages: 30-85
Notes: TJ rarely mingled in popular gatherings, but his reputation steadily increased in Virginia, with the exception of the setbacks caused by his governorship and the Mazzei letter. As he revealed himself as a republican reformer, he gained popular support but was also more sharply attacked by some members of his own class. He never attained the general respect tended to Washington.
Reference: 1332

1333
Name: Woodward , Carl R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Survives."

Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 19
Date: 1945
Pages: 185
Notes: Testimonial.
Reference: 1333

1334
Name: Wootan , James B.
Title: Monticello, Its Sage and His Home Town

Publisher: Monticello Hotel
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1927?
Pages: pp. 14
Notes: Jeffersonian folklore, preserved (or invented) by William Page, one of the first guides to Monticello after it opened to the public.
Reference: 1334

1335
Name: Anonymous none
Title: "The World of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Art and Man
Volume: 6
Date: 1976
Pages: 2-15
Notes: Illustrated sketch of TJ as a man of the Enlightenment.
Reference: 1335

1336
Name: Wranek , William. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Homebuilder."

Publication: The Iron Worker
Volume: 15
Date: 1951
Pages: 1-9
Notes: Sketch of the owner of Monticello.
Reference: 1336

1337
Name: Wright Chester
Title: An Address, On the Death of the Venerable and Illustrious Adams and Jefferson, Ex-presidents of the United States, Delivered Before a Large Concourse of Citizens at Montpelier Vermont, July 25, 1826

Publisher: George W. Hill
City: Montpelier
Date: 1826
Pages: pp. 19
Notes: Stresses TJ's role as a defender of religious freedom and as a figure of national unity, as in "We are all Republicans, We are all Federalists."
Reference: 1337

1338
Name: Young , Klyde and Lamar Middleton
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Heirs Apparent: The Vice Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
City: New York
Date: 1948
Pages: 16-35
Notes: Brief biographical sketch; suggests with little support that TJ intended to campaign for president as early as 1797.
Reference: 1338

1339
Name: Anonymous none
Title: "Aaron Burr."

Publication: United States Magazine and Democratic Review
Volume: 1
Date: (1838)
Pages: 221-49
Notes: Review essay on Mathew L. Davis, Memoirs of Aaron Burr, focuses on charges of treachery against TJ and rejects them.
Reference: 1339

1340
Name: Abernethy , Thomas Perkins
Title: The Burr Conspiracy

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. viii, 301
Notes: Chapter XII, "Jefferson and Burr (183-98), describes TJ's uncertainty about Burr's intentions and the quality of information he was receiving; by the end of October 1806, he was ready to believe the worst about Burr's activities in the West. Chapter XIV, "The Trial in Richmond" (227-49), criticizes TJ for becoming a party to the prosecution. Best book on this subject.
Reference: 1340

1341
Name: Adams Henry
Title: History of the United States of America During the First Administration of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1889
Pages: 2 vols. pp.446;456
Notes: This, along with the two volumes appearing in 1890 on TJ's second term, is a masterly account, one of the great works of American historiography, but it must be read carefully because of Adams' prejudices about TJ's character.
Reference: 1341

1342
Name: Adams Henry
Title: History of the United States of America During the Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1890
Pages: 2 vols., 471; 500
Reference: 1342

1343
Name: Adams , James Truslow
Title: "Jefferson and Hamilton To-Day: The Dichotomy in American Thought."

Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 141
Date: (1928)
Pages: 443-50
Notes: Both present day parties in somewhat different ways preach Jefferson and practice Hamilton; if TJ was the more attractive man, the past and the future still belong to Hamilton.
Reference: 1343

1344
Name: Adams , John Quincy
Title: Correspondence Between John Quincy Adams, Esquire, President o the United States, and Several Citizens of Massachusetts Concerning the Charge of a Design to Dissolve the Union Alleged to Have Existed in That State

Publisher: Daily Advertiser
City: Boston
Date: 1829
Pages: pp. 80
Notes: Controversy raised by the publication of TJ's letter of Dec. 25, 1825 to William Branch Giles, claiming J. Q. Adams had intimated treasonous intentions on the part of the Massachusetts Federalists at the time of the Embargo.
Reference: 1344

1345
Name: Adams , John Quincy
Title: Letter of the Hon. John Quincy Adams, in Reply to a Letter of the Hon. Alexander Smyth, to His Constituents

Publisher: Gales & Seaton
City: Washington
Date: 1828
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Defends himself against charges of attempting to ridicule TJ and of voting against the Louisiana Purchase for reasons of faction; prints a letter from TJ to William Dunbar, dated July 17, 1803, showing similar constitutional scruples.
Reference: 1345

1346
Name: Adams , Mary P.
Title: "Jefferson's Military Policy with Special Reference to the Frontier, 1805-1809."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1958
Pages: pp.331
Notes: Throughout his administration TJ "labored unceasingly to place the United States in an adequate state of military preparedness." After the Chesapeake affair of 1807 he made extensive preparations for war, trying to buy time with the Embargo, and he sent secret agents to Canada. DAI 19/06, p. 1350.
Reference: 1346

1347
Name: Adams , Mary P.
Title: "Jefferson's Reaction to the Treaty of San Ildefonso."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 21
Date: (1955)
Pages: 173-88
Notes: Contends the files of the War Department from April 1801 through mid 1803 "reveal a clear and positive Louisiana policy," including military preparations on the Mississippi, projection of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Indian and land policy measures.
Reference: 1347

1348
Name: Adler , Bill, comp.
Title: Washington: A Reader. The National Capitol as Seen Through the Eyes of: Thomas Jefferson, ....

Publisher: Meredith
City: New York
Date: 1967
Pages: 37-39
Notes: Trivial collection of comments by assorted Washingtonians.
Reference: 1348

1349
Name: Agar Herbert
Title: "A Century of Progress"

Publication: Land of the Free
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1935
Pages: 29-85
Notes: Breezy analysis of the failure to build a Jeffersonian, i.e. egalitarian, state upon a Hamiltonian system of finance.
Reference: 1349

1350
Name: Agar Herbert
Title: "John Adams and Jefferson"

Publication: The People's Choice From Washington to Harding: A Study in Democracy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1933
Pages: 32-71
Notes: Adams and TJ were part of the oligarchic class, "A little group of privileged and public-spirited men" which occupied the presidency during the first fifty years of the nation's existence. The election of 1800 was no revolution; "in fact, there was no important change."
Reference: 1350

1351
Name: Agar Herbert
Title: Pursuit of Happiness: The Story of American Democracy

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1938
Pages: pp. 387
Notes: First 3 chapters (1-103) on TJ und his development of democratic principles and on the beginning of the Democratic party during his presidency.
Reference: 1351

1352
Name: Alvord , Clarence Walworth
Title: "Thomas Jefferson versus Alexander Hamilton."

Publication: Landmark
Volume: 8
Date: (1926)
Pages: 194-96
Notes: Review essay on Bower's Jefferson and Hamilton.
Reference: 1352

1353
Name: Anonymous none
Title: "Americana Page."

Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 57
Date: 1952
Pages: 100
Notes: Editorial praising TJ for removing "the fanatical nonsense from self-government.
Reference: 1353

1354
Name: Ammon Harry
Title: "The Formation of the Republican Party in Virginia, 1789-1796."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 19
Date: (1953)
Pages: 283-310
Notes: Touches upon TJ's important but inconspicuous role in forming the Republican Party; claims Republicans attracted both anti-federalists and supporters of the Constitution.
Reference: 1354

1355
Name: Ammon Harry
Title: "The Genet Mission and the Development of American Political Parties."

Publication: Journal of American History
Volume: 52
Date: (1966)
Pages: 725-41
Notes: TJ at the time of the Genet affair was "far less deeply engaged than Hamilton in the direction of party policy....Madison, as in the previous years, was still the major figure in shaping party programs."
Reference: 1355

1356
Name: Ammon Harry
Title: "James Monroe and the Election of 1808 in Virginia."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 20
Date: (1963)
Pages: 33-56
Notes: Discusses cooling of relations between TJ and Monroe which led to the younger man's becoming the "Old Republican" presidential candidate.
Reference: 1356

1357
Name: Anderson , Dice R.
Title: "Jefferson and the Virginia Constitution."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 21
Date: (1915)
Pages: 750-54
Notes: TJ's 1776 draft of a constitution was "democratic and farseeing," probably too much so for the convention.
Reference: 1357

1358
Name: Anderson , Frank Maloy
Title: "Contemporary Opinion of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 5
Date: (1899-1900)
Pages: 45-63, 225-52
Notes: Examines responses to the Resolutions by state legislatures and in the press; responses were in terms of party division, and neither side perceived the constitutional implications. TJ and Madison are scarcely mentioned.
Reference: 1358

1359
Name: Anderson , John R.
Title: "A Twentieth-Century Reflection of the American Enlightenment."

Publication: Social Education
Volume: 29
Date: (1965)
Pages: 159-63
Notes: Inconclusive discussion of TJ and the school prayer issue.
Reference: 1359

1360
Name: Anderson , Philip J.
Title: "William Linn, 1752-1808: American Revolutionary and Anti-Jeffersonian."

Publication: Journal of Presbyterian History
Volume: 55
Date: (1977)
Pages: 38 1-94
Notes: Portrait of a member of the black regiment, author of Serious Considerations on the Election of a President (1800).
Reference: 1360

1361
Name: Andrews , Robert Hardy
Title: "How the CIA Was Born."

Publication: Mankind
Volume: 5
Date: 1975
Pages: 14-15, 68
Notes: Claims TJ sent John Ledyard off on the first peace-time intelligence gathering mission.
Reference: 1361

1362
Name: Andrews , Robert Hardy
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Two Declarations."

Publication: Mankind
Volume: 5
Date: 1976
Pages: 51-53
Notes: TJ's "first" Declaration attacked slavery before Congress dropped key phrases. Minor.
Reference: 1362

1363
Name: Andrews , Robert Hardy
Title: "A President Is Not a King."

Publication: Mankind
Volume: 4
Date: 1974
Pages: 8, 16-17, 66.
Notes: On the Burr trial and Marshall's subpoena of TJ; see reply and rejoinder in the June issue, pp. 8-9, 44-47.
Reference: 1363

1364
Name: Andrews Stuart
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution."

Publication: History Today
Volume: 18
Date: (1968)
Pages: 299-306
Notes: Good account for a general audience, claims TJ's support of the Revolution through so many vicissitudes illustrates his faith in Enlightenment ideals and perhaps should encourage us to think more kindly of the Committee of Public Safety.
Reference: 1364

1365
Name: Angle , Paul M.
Title: Jefferson Outlines a Better Democracy

Publication: By These Words; Great Documents of American Liberty Selected and Placed in Their Contemporary Settings
Publisher: Rand McNally
City: New York
Date: 1954
Pages: 152-59
Notes: Brief description of the first inaugural and the address.
Reference: 1365

1366
Name: Appleby Joyce
Title: The Jefferson-Adams Rupture and the First French Translation of John Adams' Defence.

Publication: AHR
Volume: 73
Date: 1967
Pages: 1084-91
Notes: Excellent account of TJ's role in arranging, and failing to arrange, a French translation of Adams' Defence of the Constitution, and of his initial enthusiasm and later criticism.
Reference: 1366

1367
Name: Arieli Yehoshua
Title: "Free Society—The Formulation of the Jeffersonian Social Ideal" and "The Jeffersonian Ideal—Social and Political Democracy"

Publication: Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
City: Cambridge
Date: 1964
Pages: 123-80
Notes: Contends TJ believed it was the function of the state to safeguard a social order that was inherently free and natural.
Reference: 1367

1368
Name: Anonymous none
Title: "Arnold's Invasion, 1781. Jefferson's Official Conduct."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 6
Date: (1920)
Pages: 131-32
Notes: Prints without comment affidavits by Daniel Hylton and James Currie testifying to TJ's diligence in safeguarding the military stores in Richmond.
Reference: 1368

1369
Name: Aronson Julian
Title: "The Impulse of Equality in Jefferson's Virginia."

Publication: Social Studies
Volume: 44
Date: (1953)
Pages: 123-28
Notes: Argues that TJ was supported by Virginia land owners in spite of and not because of his egalitarian ideas.
Reference: 1369

1370
Name: Aronson , Sidney Herbert
Title: "Status and Kinship in the Higher Civil Service: The Administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Columbia Univ.
Date: 1961
Pages: pp. 942
Notes: TJ's higher appointive officials were somewhat more representative of American society than Adams's but less so than Jackson's. Examines social backgrounds of appointees in all 3 administrations. DAI 23/09, p. 3532
Reference: 1370

1371
Name: Aronson , Sidney H.
Title: Status and Kinship in the Higher Civil Service: Standards of Selection in the Administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson

Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
City: Cambridge
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. xiii, 274
Notes: Version of the dissertation; analysis of the social origins of presidential appointees in three administrations, based on elaborate research into individuals and quantification of the results.
Reference: 1371

1372
Name: Ashley Maurice
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Mr. President: An Introduction to American History
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
City: London
Date: 1948
Pages: 105-65
Notes: TJ "did much to develop the presidential office into a major factor in American political affairs."
Reference: 1372

1373
Name: Atkinson , George W.
Title: "Jefferson as a Tactician"

Publication: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb and Bergh
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
City: Washington
Date: 1903
Pages: 6:i-xx
Notes: Praises TJ's ability to move men.
Reference: 1373

1374
Name: Atwell , Priscilla Ann
Title: "Freedom and Diversity: Continuity in the Political Tradition of Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of California
City: Los Angeles
Date: 1967
Pages: pp. 332
Notes: TJ and Calhoun had in common a "corporate conception of community and institutional approach to social problems; their efforts as statesmen to act for the good of the whole community; their attitude that party contests should be a contest of principle, not a struggle for power; and above all in the idea that political freedom in a republic characterized by diversity is conditional on specific circumstances and the habits, opinions, and prejudices of the citizens." DAI 28/llA, p. 4563.
Reference: 1374

1375
Name: Auguste Yves
Title: "Jefferson et Haiti."

Publication: Revue d'Histoire Diplomatique
Volume: 86
Date: (1973)
Pages: 333-48
Notes: Traces the evolution of TJ's ideas about Haiti as he began to use it as a diplomatic playing card.
Reference: 1375

1376
Name: Bailey , Thomas A.
Title: "Federalism and the Birth of Parties" and "Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans"

Publication: Democrats vs. Republicans: The Continuing Clash
Publisher: Meredith Press
City: New York
Date: 1968
Pages: 3-45
Notes: Development of the Democratic Party portrayed as a result of conflict with the Federalists; argues for a "Janus-faced Jefferson."
Reference: 1376

1377
Name: Baldwin , Joseph G.
Title: Party Leaders: Sketches of Thomas Jefferson Alex'r Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Randolph of Roanoke

Publisher: Appleton
City: New York
Date: 1855
Pages: 17-134
Notes: TJ contrasted with Hamilton: "He was more artificial as well as more original than Hamilton.... a thorough-going party man ... the whole tone of his mind was partisan." Baldwin's hero is Clay.
Reference: 1377

1378
Name: Banning Lance
Title: The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology

Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press
City: Ithaca
Date: 1978
Pages: pp. 307
Notes: Focus on Jeffersonians rather than on TJ; contends that ideology of the Revolution shaped the thinking of the Republican party in the early national years.
Reference: 1378

1379
Name: Barrett , Jay A.
Title: "The Law of 1784; Jefferson's Draft"

Publication: Evolution of the Ordinance of 1787, With An Account of the Earlier Plans for the Government of the Northwest Territory
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1891
Pages: 17-23
Notes: Described TJ's 1784 committee report on a form of temporary government for the Northwest Territory.
Reference: 1379

1380
Name: Barton George
Title: "When in the Course ..."

Publication: Christian Science Monitor Magazine
Date: 1936
Pages: 3, 14
Notes: On the rough draft of the Declaration and TJ's authorship.
Reference: 1380

1381
Name: Bates , George Williams
Title: The Establishment of American Independence as Related to the Louisiana Purchase, With a Review of the Historical Work of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution

Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1905?
Pages: pp. 20
Reference: 1381

1382
Name: Bayard , James A.
Title: Remarks in the Senate of the United States January 31, 1855, Vindicating the Late James A. Bayard, of Delaware, and Refuting the Groundless Charges contained in the "Anas" of Thomas Jefferson, Aspersing His Character

City: Washington
Date: 1855
Pages: pp. 14
Notes: Rpt. Wilmington, Del.: Thomas F. Bayard, 1907. pp. 38. In the Anas TJ claimed Bayard tried to bribe Samuel Smith to vote for Burr for president in 1800, or so Edward Livingston told him.
Reference: 1382

1383
Name: Bayard , Richard H.
Title: Documents Relating to the Presidential Election in the Year 1801: Containing a Refutation of Two Passages in the Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Aspersing the Character of the Late James A. Bayard of Delaware

Publisher: Mifflin & Parry
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1831
Pages: pp. 14
Reference: 1383

1384
Name: Bean , W. G.
Title: "Anti-Jeffersonianism in the Ante-Bellum South."

Publication: North Carolina Historical Review
Volume: 12
Date: 1935
Pages: 103-24
Notes: Maps the Democratic Party's repudiation of the radical, democratic ideas of TJ, chiefly in terms of speeches in Congress. Sees slavery as the key issue.
Reference: 1384

1385
Name: Beard , Charles A
Title: Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1915
Pages: pp. ix, 474
Notes: A classic study. Final chapter focuses on "Jefferson's Economics and Politics" (415-67), and claims that TJ recognized the antagonism between capitalistic and agrarian interests and made the latter the peculiar concern of the Republican party. He claimed the Constitution as a Republican document, favored judicial control of legislation (until crossed by John Marshall), and came to espouse a wide suffrage free of property qualifications.
Reference: 1385

1386
Name: Beard , Charles A.
Title: Jefferson, Corporations and the Constitution

Publisher: National Home Library Foundation
City: Washington
Date: 1936
Pages: pp. 93
Notes: The Beard thesis popularized and applied to the development of corporations. TJ opposed to "monopolies," i.e. corporations, and thus he should not be co-opted by conservative politicians of 1936. TJ believed in strict construction, among other reasons, because of fears of the U. S. Bank's potential ability to drain the earnings of agriculture.
Reference: 1386

1387
Name: Beard , Charles A.
Title: "Some Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 19
Date: (1913)
Pages: 282-98
Notes: Members of Congress in 1790 voting on funding securities to assume state debts "represented the dominant interest of their respective constituencies rather than their personal interests" as TJ later charged in the Anas.
Reference: 1387

1388
Name: Beatty , James Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: North Texas State Univ.
Date: 1973
Pages: pp. 141
Reference: 1388

1389
Name: Beckman , Gail M.
Title: "Three Penal Codes Compared."

Publication: American Journal of Legal History
Volume: 10
Date: (1976)
Pages: 148-73
Notes: Compares TJ's code of 1776 for Virginia, Edward Livingston's for Louisiana, and David Dudley Field's for New York. Claims that TJ's was an expression of the Enlightenment and made way for penal code reforms in other states.
Reference: 1389

1390
Name: Bell , Whitfield J., Jr.
Title: The Declaration of Independence, Four 1776 Versions: Jefferson's Manuscript Copy. The First Official Printing by John Dunlap, The First Newspaper Printing, A Unique Printing on Parchment by John Dunlap

Publisher: American Philosophical Society
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1976
Pages: pp. (24)
Notes: Historical introduction and notes.
Reference: 1390

1391
Name: Bellamy Francis
Title: Presidents of the United States in the Century, From Jefferson to Fillmore

Publisher: Linscott
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1905
Pages: 17-108
Notes: A volume in "The Nineteenth Century Series." Brief but perceptive account of TJ's administration tends to be critical of his inability to assess correctly practical problems of government.
Reference: 1391

1392
Name: Belmont Perry
Title: Survival of the Democratic Principle Including the Tariff Issue

Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. vi, 334
Notes: Rambling, discursive account of the way in which TJ has been misread and underrated by subsequent political historians, often for partisan reasons, but also by thoughtlessly accepting the authority of Henry Adams.
Reference: 1392

1393
Name: Bemis , Samuel Flagg
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 3-93
Notes: TJ was the best man of his time to guide the diplomacy of his country, even though his handling of affairs was hampered by his rivalry with Hamilton and by Hamilton's actions.
Reference: 1393

1394
Name: Berger Raoul
Title: "The President, Congress, and the Courts."

Publication: Yale Law Review
Volume: 83
Date: (1974)
Pages: 111-55
Notes: Examines TJ's subpoena by Marshall in the Burr case and contends Marshall never recognized a principle of "executive privilege" exempting presidents from the force of law; goes on to examine the relevance of this for the Nixon-Watergate case. Shorter version published as "Jefferson v. Marshall in the Burr Case." American Bar Association Journal. 69(1974), 702-06.
Reference: 1394

1395
Name: Berkhofer , Robert P., Jr.
Title: "Jefferson, the Ordinance of 1784, and the Origins of the American Territorial System."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 29
Date: (1972)
Pages: 231-62
Notes: Argues that the Ordinance of 1784 is not so strictly in accord with TJ's views as has been previously assumed, nor is the Northwest Ordinance so divergent from his opinions on new territories or from the Ordinance of 1784 itself.
Reference: 1395

1396
Name: Beveridge , Albert J.
Title: "Sources of the Declaration of Independence."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 50
Date: (1926)
Pages: 289-315
Notes: "All the ideas and much of the language" came from the Virginia Bill of Rights, but TJ gave final expression to "the general American thought and feeling."
Reference: 1396

1397
Name: Bias Randolph
Title: "Jefferson and Hamilton."

Publication: West Virginia Law Quarterly
Volume: 33
Date: 1926
Pages: 1-28
Notes: Address to the State Bar Association; two giants.
Reference: 1397

1398
Name: Binder , Frederick Melvin
Title: "The Color Problem in Early National America as Viewed by John Adams, Jefferson and Jackson."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Columbia Univ.
Date: 1962
Pages: pp. 259
Notes: TJ wished to lighten the burden of the negro slave and the Indian, but he was "governed by a desire to assure national unity ..." and he attempted to discourage the entry of slavery into national deliberation. DAI 24/05, p. 1987.
Reference: 1398

1399
Name: Binder , Frederick M.
Title: The Color Problem in Early National America as Viewed by John Adams, Jefferson, and Jackson.

Publisher: Mouton
City: The Hague
Date: 1968
Pages: 177
Notes: Slightly revised version of the 1962 dissertation (#1398)
Reference: 1399

1400
Name: Blair , Albert L.
Title: "Was Jefferson a Democrat?"

Publication: Arena
Volume: 21
Date: (1899)
Pages: 633-45
Notes: "He was far more the father of the second republican party than of the democracy.
Reference: 1400

1401
Name: Black , Chauncey F.
Title: A Contrast. Jefferson and Hamilton, Democracy and Federalism. 1800-1881. The Same Parties and the Same Principles. A Plain Question. Shall the People Rule or Shall They Be Ruled

Publisher: O. Stuck
City: York, Pa.
Date: (1880?)
Pages: pp. 13
Reference: 1401

1402
Name: Black , Chauncey F.
Title: "1800-1900, Jefferson and Bryan."

Publication: The Jeffersonian Democrat
Volume: 2
Date: (1899)
Pages: 489-500
Notes: "Where Jefferson stood then, William Jennings Bryan stands now." Draws parallels.
Reference: 1402

1403
Name: Blanken , Maurice C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Imperialist."

Publication: Social Studies
Volume: 53
Date: (1962)
Pages: 140-42
Notes: TJ made possible the dream of manifest destiny; minor.
Reference: 1403

1404
Name: Boardman , Fon W., Jr.
Title: America and the Virginia Dynasty, 1800-1825

Publisher: Henry Z. Walck
City: New York
Date: 1974
Pages: pp. 218
Notes: Sketchy coverage of TJ as president, pp. 1-32.
Reference: 1404

1405
Name: Bonger Hendrik
Title: Leraar der Mensenrechten: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Van Loghum Slaterus
City: Arnhem
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 73
Notes: On his work for civil rights with focus on years 1775-76.
Reference: 1405

1406
Name: Boorstin , Daniel J.
Title: "The American Revolution: Revolution Without Dogma"

Publication: The Genius of American Politics
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1953
Pages: 66-98
Notes: Discusses the implications of the Declaration, arguing, "The awareness of the peculiarity of America had not yet by any means led Jefferson to a rash desire to remake all society and institutions."
Reference: 1406

1407
Name: Borden Morton
Title: "A Neo-Federalist View of the Jeffersonians."

Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 5
Date: (1977)
Pages: 196-202
Notes: Review essay taking to task Forrest McDonald's Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
Reference: 1407

1408
Name: Borden Morton
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: America's Ten Greatest Presidents, ed. Borden
Publisher: Rand McNally
City: Chicago
Date: 1961
Pages: 57-80
Notes: TJ's administration was "compounded of three ingredients—liberalism, nationalism, and a healthy dose of common sense." Emphasizes TJ's pragmatic approach, but on debatable strategies like the embargo simply weighs up the pros and cons.
Reference: 1408

1409
Name: Bourgin , Frank P. and Charles E. Merriam
Title: "Jefferson as a Planner of National Resources."

Publication: Ethics
Volume: 53
Date: (1943)
Pages: 284-92
Notes: "Jefferson not only set forth the ends but also planned constructively the means of attaining liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness, and the consent of the governed." He took at various times an interest in land planning, education, transportation, industrial enterprise, and planning for the general welfare.
Reference: 1409

1410
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Architect of the All-American System."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 19
Date: (1943)
Pages: 178-88
Notes: TJ's Summary View justified the revolutionary movements of South America and led up to the Monroe Doctrine; discusses connections with South American revolutions.
Reference: 1410

1411
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Jefferson and Civil Liberties."

Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 191
Date: 1953
Pages: 52-58
Notes: Claims that the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and the election of TJ in 1800 forestalled "the most powerful attempt in our history to destroy the elemental freedoms."
Reference: 1411

1412
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Jefferson and Hamilton; The Struggle for Democracy in America

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1925
Pages: pp. xvii, 531
Notes: The first installment of this influential biography of TJ, this volume focuses on the years from 1789 to 1801 and on the political events and life of these years.
Reference: 1412

1413
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Jefferson and the Bill of Rights."

Publication: Virginia Law Review
Volume: 41
Date: (1955)
Pages: 709-29
Notes: TJ's demand for a bill of rights was justified by the threats to civil liberty periodically generated by demagogues and sensationalists.
Reference: 1413

1414
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Jefferson in Power -- The Death Struggle of the Federalists

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1936
Pages: pp. xix, 538
Notes: TJ's presidency which "marked the consolidation of the triumph of democracy."
Reference: 1414

1415
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Jefferson, Master Politician."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 2
Date: (1926)
Pages: 321-33
Notes: TJ was a master politician in the service of democracy because of his "soul." Impressionistic.
Reference: 1415

1416
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Making Democracy a Reality, Jefferson, Jackson, and Polk

Publisher: Memphis State College Press
City: Memphis
Date: 1954
Pages: 1-39
Notes: TJ chapter is a sentimental and imprecise paean to him as a defender of democratic freedom.
Reference: 1416

1417
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and South America."

Publication: Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Volume: 77
Date: (1943)
Pages: 183-91
Notes: Discusses TJ's South American connections: the Brazilian revolutionaries he met in Nimes, Francisco Miranda, etc., and his support of inter-American solidarity.
Reference: 1417

1418
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Courts."

Publication: Proceedings of the North Carolina Bar Association
Volume: 29
Date: (1927)
Pages: 26-45
Reference: 1418

1419
Name: Bowling , Kenneth R.
Title: "Dinner at Jefferson's: A Note on Jacob E. Cooke's 'The Compromise of 1790'."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 28
Date: (1971)
Pages: 629-48
Notes: Rejects Cooke's argument (see below, #1501) that there was no real connection between the federal assumption of state debts and the decision to put the capital on the Potomac. Rejoinder by Cooke.
Reference: 1419

1420
Name: Bowman , Albert H.
Title: "Jefferson, Hamilton, and American Foreign Policy."

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 71
Date: (1956)
Pages: 18-41
Notes: Argues that TJ and not Hamilton was the realist in foreign policy; TJ understood the national interest, but "Hamilton's foreign policy was based constantly upon what he wanted the United States to become, not upon what it was or was likely to be." The Nootka Sound crisis revealed the distance between their policies; the Jay Treaty "made war inevitable."
Reference: 1420

1421
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "The Chasm That Separated Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall"

Publication: Essays on the American Constitution: A Commemorative Volume in Honor of Alpheus T. Mason, ed. Gottfried Dietze
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
City: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Date: 1964
Pages: 3-20
Notes: Suggestive study of the "inexplorable protagonists of two opposed views of society." If neither was suited for the other's position, TJ ultimately is the more significant figure because of his relativism which enabled him to respect the role of an independent judiciary in spite of his temptations to curb it.
Reference: 1421

1422
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text as Shown in Facsimiles of Various Drafts by Its Author, THOMAS JEFFERSON

Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
City: Princeton
Date: 1945
Pages: pp. 46
Notes: Analyzes facsimiles of all known drafts. Useful.
Reference: 1422

1423
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "The Declaration of Independence—The Mystery of the Lost Original."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 100
Date: (1976)
Pages: 438-67
Notes: Conjectural account of the now missing draft of the Declaration as approved by Congress. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a unique proof copy of the first half of the Declaration as printed by John Dunlap.
Reference: 1423

1424
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "The Disputed Authorship of the Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, 1775."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 74
Date: (1950)
Pages: 51-73
Notes: The text finally adopted by Congress was the result of collaboration upon the part of TJ and John Dickinson, "however unwilling each was to accept the work of the other."
Reference: 1424

1425
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Jefferson's Expression of the American Mind."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 50
Date: (1974)
Pages: 538-62
Notes: Examines the conditions surrounding TJ's writing of A Summary View; discusses relationship of this to his Declaration of Rights for the Albemarle freeholders, and suggests the Survey may in its earliest form have been intended for delivery by Patrick Henry.
Reference: 1425

1427
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Two Diplomats Between Revolutions: John Jay and Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 66
Date: (1958)
Pages: 133-46
Notes: TJ's diplomatic skill played an important role in gaining an acceptable consular convention with France, despite Jay's opposition.
Reference: 1427

1428
Name: Bradford Alden
Title: History of the Federal Government for Fifty Years: From March 1789 to March 1839

Publisher: Samuel G. Simpkins
City: Boston
Date: 1840
Pages: 119-68
Notes: A federalist view of TJ's presidency, charging that ultimately "his political opinions and conduct served to lessen, in some measure, the stability and permanency of the republic; by emboldening visionary and unprincipled men, many of whom were aliens, and who could vociferate most loudly for liberty, but had not a due respect for law or the Constitution."
Reference: 1428

1428
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "New Light on Jefferson and His Great Task."

Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1947
Pages: 17, 64-70
Notes: On the discovery of a mss. fragment of the Declaration, in TJ's hand.
Reference: 1428

1429
Name: Bradley , Jared W.
Title: "William C. C. Claiborne, the Old Southwest and the Development of American Indian Policy."

Publication: Tennessee Historical Quarterly
Volume: 33
Date: (1974)
Pages: 265-78
Notes: "...before Jefferson became President in 1801, the basic principles of his administration's Indian policy had been pre-determined for him by the 1796 Indian trade and intercourse act, and by Representative William C. C. Claiborne of Tennessee."
Reference: 1429

1430
Name: Bradley , Jared W.
Title: "W.C.C. Claiborne and Spain: Foreign Affairs Under Jefferson and Madison."

Publication: Louisiana History
Volume: 12
Date: (1971)
Pages: 297-314; 13(1972),5-28.
Notes: Claiborne's recommendations were far more bellicose than TJ's responses.
Reference: 1430

1431
Name: Brant Irving
Title: "James Madison and His Time."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 57
Date: (1952)
Pages: 853-70
Notes: Argues that Madison was not a mere satellite of TJ as suggested by Henry Adams and others; Madison in many cases led TJ in policy making, for example in pointing out to him the political implications of the French loss of Haiti, a base of support needed if the French were to retain Louisiana.
Reference: 1431

1432
Name: Brant Irving
Title: "Two of a Size."

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 16
Date: (1958)
Pages: 5-17
Notes: Good sketch of the Madison-TJ relationship, arguing for Madison as an independent thinker equal to TJ.
Reference: 1432

1433
Name: Brent , Robert A.
Title: "The Triumph of Jacksonian Democracy in the United States."

Publication: Southern Quarterly
Volume: 7
Date: (1968)
Pages: 43-57
Notes: American voters have accepted Jackson's version of democracy and rejected TJ's, partly because TJ preserves strong aristocratic tendencies.
Reference: 1433

1434
Name: Brewer , Paul W.
Title: "Jefferson's Administration of Patronage: New York, 1801-1804."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1968
Pages: pp. 76
Notes: There were only a small number of appointments made in New York, but they were moderately successful in the long run in helping to build a base for the Republican party.
Reference: 1434

1435
Name: Briceland , Alan V.
Title: "The Philadelphia Aurora, The New England Illuminati, and the Election of 1800."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 100
Date: (1976)
Pages: 3-36
Notes: John C. Ogden wrote for Duane's Aurora a series of attacks upon New England Federalists, hurling the charges of illuminatism back upon them. Peripherally about TJ.
Reference: 1435

1436
Name: Brisbane , Robert H., Jr.
Title: "Interposition: Theory and Practice."

Publication: Phylon
Volume: 17
Date: (1956)
Pages: 12-16
Notes: TJ set forward the doctrine of interposition in its classic form in the Kentucky Resolutions.
Reference: 1436

1437
Name: Bromfield Louis
Title: "Thomas Jefferson vs. Karl Marx"

Publication: A Pew Brass Tacks
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Date: 1946
Pages: 171-22
Notes: Because of spoliation of the land and poor government planning TJ's dream of an independent citizenry is threatened by the specter of Marx's proletariat.
Reference: 1437

1438
Name: Bronowski , Jacob and Bruce Mazlish
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution"

Publication: The Western Intellectual Tradition from Leonardo to Hegel
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Date: 1960
Pages: 373-91
Notes: Sympathetic but only vaguely accurate sketch of TJ as a revolutionary politician.
Reference: 1438

1439
Name: Broun Heywood
Title: "Shades of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 95
Date: 1938
Pages: 305
Notes: It is less preposterous for Earl Browder and the Communist Party to claim TJ as comrade than it is for the extreme right to claim him as one of their own.
Reference: 1439

1440
Name: Browder Earl
Title: "Jefferson and the People's Revolution"

Publication: The Heritage of Jefferson
Publisher: International Publishers
City: New York
Date: 1944
Pages: 30-39
Notes: "Jefferson was no Communist, but the Communist Party can claim his as one of its principal precursors."
Reference: 1440

1441
Name: Brown , Edward A.
Title: "An Investigation of the Attitudes Expressed by Richmond's Press toward Thomas Jefferson in the Presidential Elections of 1800, 1804, and 1808."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Richmond
Date: 1964
Pages: none given
Reference: 1441

1442
Name: Brown , Everett Somerville
Title: The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase 1803-1812

Publisher: Univ. of California Press
City: Berkeley
Date: 1920
Pages: pp. xi,248
Notes: Detailed account of the constitutional issues raised by the Louisiana Purchase and the deliberations by TJ and Congress over them.
Reference: 1442

1443
Name: Brown , Everett Somerville
Title: "Intimate Sketches of Jefferson's Day."

Publication: Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review
Volume: 41
Date: (1935)
Pages: 299-306
Notes: Rpt. in The Territorial Delegate to Congress and Other Essays. Ann Arbor: G. Wahr, 1950. Anecdotes from William Plumer's diary, including dining at the White House with TJ.
Reference: 1443

1444
Name: Brown , Everett S.
Title: "Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice."

Publication: Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review
Volume: 49
Date: (1943)
Pages: 144-48
Notes: Discusses TJ's preparation of his manual of parliamentary usage done for the U.S. Senate.
Reference: 1444

1445
Name: Brown , Everett. S.
Title: "Jefferson's Plans for a Military Colony in Orleans Territory."

Publication: MVHR
Volume: 8
Date: (1921)
Pages: 373-76
Notes: TJ proposed granting land in Orleans territory to recipients willing to perform military service if needed.
Reference: 1445

1446
Name: Brown , Robert E. and Katherine Brown
Title: "The Revolution as a Social Movement"

Publication: Virginia 1705-1786: Democracy or Aristocracy?
Publisher: Michigan State Univ. Press
City: East Lansing
Date: 1964
Pages: 284-306
Notes: Argues that there was little if any internal revolution in Virginia and that TJ himself was not very radical; discusses legislative action on entail, primogeniture, franchise, education, and religion to show that only in the last two areas was TJ in advance of his peers.
Reference: 1446

1447
Name: Browne , Waldo R.
Title: "Backward Glance in History."

Publication: Nation
Volume: 165
Date: (1947)
Pages: 256-57
Notes: TJ's resistance to the anti-French war hysteria of 1798 is worth thinking about for Americans in 1947.
Reference: 1447

1448
Name: Bruce , H. A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase."

Publication: The Outlook
Volume: 88
Date: (1908)
Pages: 433-46
Notes: TJ was "the first of the long line of notable American expansionists."
Reference: 1448

1449
Name: Bruchey Stuart
Title: "Federal Government and Community Will"

Publication: The Roots of American Economic Growth, 1607-1861: An Essay in Social Causation
Publisher: Harper and Row
City: New York
Date: 1965
Pages: 113-22
Notes: Examines the economic policies of TJ and Hamilton and minimizes their practical differences.
Reference: 1449

1450
Name: Bruckberger , R. L.
Title: Image of America

Publisher: Viking
City: New York
Date: 1959
Pages: 57-121
Notes: Translation of La Republique Americaine. Paris: Gallimard, 1958. Discusses TJ's role in creating the American republic, comparing him to Saint~ust and seeing him as a revolutionary who recognized "the concrete dimension of time." Claims the Declaration is "totally devoid of ideological fanaticism, empty abstractions, all excess." Hamilton's economic system laid a solid foundation for national unity which TJ could not reject, yet his warnings about the Hamiltonian system remind us of the threat "a vast and complex machinery of industry" poses to individual liberty.
Reference: 1450

1451
Name: Buckley , Thomas E.
Title: Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787

Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1977
Pages: pp. xiv, 217
Notes: TJ discussed passim; covers the controversy over religion which culminated in 1786 with the passage of TJ's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.
Reference: 1451

1452
Name: Buhler Franz
Title: Verwassungsrevision und Generationenproblem: Studie sur Verwassungsrevisionstheorie Thomas Jefferson. Arbeiten Aus dem Iuristischen Seminar der Universitat Frieburg

Publisher: Universit-atsbuchhandlung
City: Freiburg
Date: 1949
Pages: pp. xiii, 105
Notes: Study of TJ's belief in the right of each generation to write its own laws.
Reference: 1452

1453
Name: Burger , Warren E.
Title: "The Doctrine of Judicial Review: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury"

Publication: The Constitution and Chief Justice Marshall, William F. Swindler
Publisher: Dodd Mead
City: New York
Date: 1978
Pages: 383-94
Notes: Explains Marbury vs. Madison and how it established the principle of judicial review.
Reference: 1453

1454
Name: Burke , Edmund J.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Apostle of Freedom and Equality of Opportunity; the Solution of Our Economic and Social Ills.

Publisher: Jefferson Club of Cambridge
City: Cambridge, Mass.
Date: 1934
Pages: pp. 14
Reference: 1454

1455
Name: Burns , James McGregor
Title: "Jefferson and the Strategy of Parties"

Publication: The Deadlock of Democracy: Four-Party Politics in America
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
City: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Date: 1963
Pages: 24-46
Notes: Argues that TJ was responsible for overturning the Madisonian model of the Constitution by leading the development of a strategy of majority rule through parties. An important statement.
Reference: 1455

1456
Name: Burr , William Henry
Title: "The Authorship of the Declaration of Independence"

Publication: Thomas Paine: Was He Junius?
Publisher: Freethought Publishing Co.
City: San Francisco
Date: 1890
Pages: 17-26
Notes: Not only was Paine Junius, he also wrote the Declaration, or so it says here.
Reference: 1456

1457
Name: Burr , William Henry
Title: The Declaration of Independence A Masterpiece But How It Got Mutilated!

City: Washington?
Date: 1881?
Pages: pp. 11
Notes: Argues for Tom Paine as the author of the Declaration.
Reference: 1457

1458
Name: Busey , Samuel Clagett
Title: "The Centennial of the First Inauguration of a President at the Permanent Seat of the Government."

Publication: Records of the Columbia Historical Society
Volume: 5
Date: (1902)
Pages: 96-111
Notes: Description of TJ's first inauguration, arguing against the legend that he rode rather than walked to the ceremony.
Reference: 1458

1459
Name: Butler , Nicholas Murray
Title: "Spokesman of the Democratic Spirit: Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Building the American Nation, An Essay in Reinterpretation
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1923
Pages: 133-68
Notes: Praises TJ for his principles and commitment to civil and political liberty, yet is deeply suspicious of those who supported him and whom he supported: "hack libellers, ... half-rebellious democratic societies made up chiefly of the mobs of the large cities, ... moonshiners of the mountains." Because of this and similar contradictions, "Perhaps no great writer on politics ... needs to have his sayings and acts analysed more carefully than does Jefferson."
Reference: 1459

1460
Name: Butterfield , Lyman H.
Title: "Elder John Leland, Jeffersonian Itinerant."

Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Volume: 62
Date: (1952)
Pages: 155-242
Notes: Includes facsimile of "Ode to the Mammoth Cheese,..." Focus on Leland but discusses his support of TJ and relations with him.
Reference: 1460

1461
Name: Butterfield , Lyman H.
Title: "Psychological Warfare in 1776: The Jefferson-Franklin Plan to Cause Hessian Desertions."

Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 94
Date: (1950)
Pages: 233-41
Notes: The plan of preparing handbills encouraging Hessian officers and men to desert was not particularly successful because they did not reach the Germans in any quantity.
Reference: 1461

1462
Name: Butts , R. Freeman
Title: The Struggle for Separation in Virginia

Publication: The American Tradition in Religion and Education
Publisher: Beacon
City: Boston
Date: 1950
Pages: 45-67
Notes: Presents TJ as thoroughgoing supporter of separation in church and state; nothing new.
Reference: 1462

1463
Name: Cahn Edmond
Title: "Brief for the Supreme Court."

Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1956
Pages: 9, 64-70
Notes: Claims judicial review is not at odds with TJ's principles; see reply by Arthur Krock, October 28, 1956. p. 6.
Reference: 1463

1464
Name: Cahn Edmond
Title: "The Doubter and the Bill of Rights."

Publication: New York University Law Review
Volume: 33
Date: (1958)
Pages: 903-16
Notes: Contends against Henry Steele Commager that TJ believed in judicial as opposed to extrajudicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights.
Reference: 1464

1465
Name: Cahn Edmond
Title: "The 'Establishment of Religion' Puzzle."

Publication: New York University Law Review
Volume: 36
Date: (1961)
Pages: 1274-97
Notes: Explains Supreme Court inconsistency on church-state cases by contending the Justices have 2 different understandings of religion, a Jeffersonian-Enlightenment view and a Madisonian-dissenter view.
Reference: 1465

1466
Name: Caldwell , Lynton K.
Title: The Administrative Theories of Hamilton and Jefferson: Their Contribution to Thought on Public Administration

Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1944
Pages: pp. ix, 244
Notes: TJ because of his overriding concern for individual liberty customarily thought of organization from the bottom up. He attempted to control the exercise of power in space by decentralization and to control it in time by regular rotation in office. "Hamilton is our great teacher of the organization and administration of public power; Jefferson, our chief expositor of its control."
Reference: 1466

1467
Name: Caldwell , Lynton Keith
Title: "Contributions to Thought on Public Administration: Hamilton and Jefferson."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago
Date: 1943
Pages: pp. 466
Notes: Published as item # 1466.
Reference: 1467

1468
Name: Caplin Mortimer
Title: A Debt of Service

Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1975
Pages: pp. 14
Notes: Founder's Day Address, Univ. of Virginia. Theme is TJ's remark in a letter to Edward Rutledge, "There is a debt of service due from every man to his country ..."
Reference: 1468

1469
Name: Cappon , Lester J.
Title: "Men of Albemarle and the Louisiana Purchase."

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 13
Date: (1953)
Pages: 1-22
Notes: Examines the parts played by TJ, Monroe, and Meriwether Lewis, all Albemarle men. Praises TJ's "forehanded ... timely" plans for exploration of the new territory.
Reference: 1469

1470
Name: Cardwell , Guy A.
Title: "Jefferson Renounced: Natural Rights in the Old South."

Publication: Yale Review
Volume: 58
Date: (1969)
Pages: 388-407
Notes: Argues that TJ's reputation in the South changed as Southerners were forced by abolitionism to reject natural law theory and its most famous advocate. Well researched but unannotated.
Reference: 1470

1471
Name: Carey , Paul Moseley
Title: "Jefferson and Slavery."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. iv, 132
Reference: 1471

1472
Name: Carlyle Richard
Title: The Earth Belongs to the Living

Publisher: Suttonhouse, Ltd.
City: Los Angeles
Date: 1936
Pages: pp. 57
Notes: A letter from the ghost of TJ with advice on the political and social issues of 1936. Author draws from TJ's writings to form a pastiche.
Reference: 1472

1473
Name: Carneiro , David da Silva
Title: "The Story of Jefferson and Maia."

Publication: Brazil
Volume: 20
Date: 1946
Pages: 8ff
Notes: TJ responded cautiously to Jose Joaquim de Maia's request for U.S. support of a Brazilian revolution for fear of antagonizing the Portuguese.
Reference: 1473

1474
Name: Carr , James A.
Title: "John Adams and the Barbary Problem: The Myth and the Record."

Publication: American Neptune
Volume: 26
Date: (1966)
Pages: 231-57
Notes: Contends the opinion that Adams wavered on action against the Barbary pirates and TJ took a firm hand is erroneous. Good account of controversies involving TJ and Adams on support and deployment of the Navy.
Reference: 1474

1475
Name: Carter Henry
Title: "Why Not Jefferson?"

Publication: Commonwealth
Volume: 19
Date: (1934)
Pages: 595-96
Notes: The U.S. should return to TJ's policy of automatically recognizing whatever government comes to power in a foreign country, regardless of its security of tenure.
Reference: 1475

1476
Name: Case , Lyman W.
Title: "'A Hater of Shams' Discourses about the Declaration of Independence."

Publication: Truth Seeker
Volume: 8
Date: (1881)
Pages: 322-23
Reference: 1476

1477
Name: Cassell , Frank A.
Title: "General Samuel Smith and the Election of 1800."

Publication: Maryland Historical Magazine
Volume: 63
Date: (1968)
Pages: 341-59
Notes: Smith was instrumental in breaking the electoral deadlock in February, 1801. "The evidence indicates Jefferson did not make a political bargain with (James A.) Bayard to secure his own election." Smith, however, seems to have suggested to Bayard that he was relaying Jefferson's assurances about Federalist office-holders.
Reference: 1477

1478
Name: Catton Bruce
Title: "The Moment of Decision."

Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 15
Date: 1964
Pages: 49-53
Notes: 5 presidential decisions; TJ's was to purchase Louisiana. Minor.
Reference: 1478

1479
Name: Chambers , William Nisbet
Title: Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776-1809

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1963
Pages: pp. 231
Notes: TJ discussed throughout, particularly as president and party leader on pp. 170-90. TJ was able to consolidate the Republican's power in his first term, but infighting in his second term foreshadowed the difficulties his successors would meet.
Reference: 1479

1480
Name: Channing Edward
Title: The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811

Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Date: 1906
Pages: pp. xii, 299
Notes: A history of TJ's administration strongly influenced by Henry Adams' history of the same period, but perhaps more federalist, more supercilious than Adams. Contends the War of 1812 discredited TJ's parsimonious defense spending, "philosophic" political weapons like the Embargo, and hostility to Britain.
Reference: 1480

1481
Name: Channing Edward
Title: "Kentucky Resolutions of 1798."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 20
Date: (1914)
Pages: 333-36
Notes: On the question of authorship; TJ the author and not John Breckinridge.
Reference: 1481

1482
Name: Charles Joseph
Title: "Adams and Jefferson: The Origins of the American Party System."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd. ser. 12
Date: (1955)
Pages: 410-46
Notes: "Jefferson did not create a party; a widespread popular movement recognized and claimed him as its leader."
Reference: 1482

1483
Name: Charles Joseph
Title: "The Jay Treaty: The Origins of the American Party System."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 12
Date: (1955)
Pages: 581-630
Notes: The Jay Treaty "altered party alignments and caused each group to close ranks."
Reference: 1483

1484
Name: Charles Joseph
Title: The Origins of the American Party System: Three Essays

Publisher: Institute of Early American History and Culture
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1956
Pages: pp. vi, 147
Notes: Essays originally appeared in ~Q, 12(1956), 217-67, and as in the two previous items (pp. 217-67 not relevant to TJ). Standard work.
Reference: 1484

1485
Name: Charles Joseph
Title: "The Party Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Harvard Univ.
Date: 1950
Pages: pp. 404
Notes: Revised and published in part as The Origins of the American Party System (1956).
Reference: 1485

1486
Name: Charlick Carl
Title: "Jefferson's NATO."

Publication: Foreign Service Journal
Volume: 31
Date: 1954
Pages: 18-21, 58
Notes: TJ attempted to organize European nations to engage with the U.S. in concerted action against the Barbary pirates.
Reference: 1486

1487
Name: Chidsey , Donald Barr
Title: Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson

Publisher: Thomas Nelson
City: Nashville
Date: 1975
Pages: pp. 207
Notes: Popular, balanced account of the political struggles between the two men.
Reference: 1487

1488
Name: Chuinard , E. G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Corps of Discovery: Creating the Lewis and Clark Expedition."

Publication: American West
Volume: 12
Date: 1975
Pages: 4-13
Notes: Points out six criticisms historians have directed towards TJ's role in the Lewis and Clark expedition, and concludes the only justifiable objection to his planning of the expedition concerns his failure to ensure that the Expedition journals were published immediately after the return.
Reference: 1488

1489
Name: Clancy , Herbert J.
Title: The Democratic Party, Jefferson to Jackson

Publisher: Fordham Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1962
Pages: 3-97
Notes: A somewhat superficial treatment of party organization and development.
Reference: 1489

1490
Name: Clark , J. Peyton
Title: A View of the Services Rendered by Thomas Jefferson in the Cause of Civil Liberty; An Oration Delivered before the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia

Publisher: J. Alexander
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1850
Pages: pp. 20
Reference: 1490

1491
Name: Coe , Samuel Gwynn
Title: The Mission of William Carmichael to Spain

Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. vii, 116
Notes: Carmichael was charge d'affaires in Spain while TJ was in Paris, and he continued there until 1794. Study based on correspondence between TJ and Carmichael but focus is on the latter.
Reference: 1491

1492
Name: Cohn , David L
Title: The Fabulous Democrats: A History of the Democratic Party in Text and Pictures

Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1956
Pages: pp.192
Notes: TJ discussed on pp. 9-27; popular.
Reference: 1492

1493
Name: Cole , Charles C., Jr.
Title: "Brockden Brown and the Jefferson Administration."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 72
Date: (1948)
Pages: 253-63
Notes: Charles Brockden Brown, an admirer of TJ in the 1790's, became sharply critical of him and his administration, particularly in his pamphlet on the Embargo.
Reference: 1493

1494
Name: Coles Edward
Title: History of the Ordinance of 1787

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1856
Pages: pp. 33
Notes: Argues that TJ's proposed plan of government for the Northwest Territory, made in 1784, was the model for the Ordinance of 1787. Coles was Monroe's private secretary and Governor of Illinois.
Reference: 1494

1495
Name: Cometti Elizabeth
Title: "John Rutledge, Jr., Federalist."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 13
Date: (1947)
Pages: 186-219
Notes: Surveys Rutledge's career, concludes there is no evidence for his authorship of the Geffroy forgeries, but he may have been implicated in the publication of Callender's scurrilities.
Reference: 1495

1496
Name: Commager , Henry Steele
Title: Majority Rule and Minority Rights

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1943
Pages: pp. 92
Notes: Contends that TJ because of his belief in man's right to govern himself opposed the principle of judicial review, but he also recognized the rights of minorities under "Nature's law" and judicial review is the only way to secure these.
Reference: 1496

1497
Name: Conseil , L. P.
Title: "Essai sur les Memoires et la Correspondance de Jefferson, Consideres comme d'Expression la Plus Complete et la Plus Pure des Principes de l'Ecole Americaine"

Publication: Thomas Jefferson, Melanges Politiques et Philosophiques
Publisher: Paulin
City: Paris
Date: 1833
Pages: 1:1-126
Notes: Argues that TJ as a model of republicanism applicable to French society; prefaces an abridged translation of T. J. Randolph's Memoirs. ... from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Reference: 1497

1498
Name: Conway , Moncure Daniel
Title: "Randolph and Jefferson"

Publication: Omitted Chapters of History Disclosed in the Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1888
Pages: 187-210
Notes: Discusses the relationship between Randolph, Washington's Attorney General, and TJ; finds that in 16 out of 19 "party divisions" in the Cabinet Randolph voted with TJ.
Reference: 1498

1499
Name: Cook , Theodore Andrea
Title: "The Original Intention of the 'Monroe Doctrine.' As Shown by the Correspondence of Monroe with Jefferson and Madison."

Publication: Fortnightly Review
Volume: 70
Date: (1898)
Pages: 357-68
Notes: Claims that Monroe with the concurrence of TJ and Madison intended the Monroe Doctrine to set out a policy allying the U.S. and Britain as guarantors of South American independence against the Holy Alliance. 'Into the Venezuelan question the Monroe Doctrine, as originally intended, never entered."
Reference: 1499

1500
Name: Cooke , Jacob E.
Title: "The Collaboration of Tench Coxe and Thomas Jefferson

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 100
Date: (1976)
Pages: 468-90
Notes: Coxe, although a supporter of Hamilton's financial policies, was personally attracted to TJ and shared many of his ideas on commercial policy. He provided TJ with notes and data which were of material aid for the Report on Whale Fisheries and the Report on Commerce.
Reference: 1500



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