Jefferson Bibliography

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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1751

Name: Koch , Adrienne and Harry Ammon
Title: "The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: An Episode in Jefferson's and Madison's Defense of Civil Liberties."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 5
Date: (1948)
Pages: 141-76

Notes: Concludes that Jefferson and Madison are "the only major authors of the Resolutions."

Reference: 1751

1752

Name: Koenig , Louis W.
Title: "'Consensus Politics,' 1800-1805."

Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 18
Date: 1967
Pages: 4-7, 74-80

Notes: Discusses TJ's difficulties with John Randolph of Roanoke.

Reference: 1752

1753

Name: Kraus Michael
Title: "Jefferson Guides the Republic" in The United States to 1865

Publisher: Univ. of Michigan Press
City: Ann Arbor
Date: 1959
Pages: 297-326

Notes: Brief history of the TJ and Madison administrations; in TJ's terms he is portrayed as the author of all actions, but in Madison's the chief actors are variously "Congress," "the Americans," etc.

Reference: 1753

1754

Name: Kreisberg , Paul H.
Title: "Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian Ideals in the Administration of the State."

Publication: Journal of Social Studies
Volume: 6
Date: 1950
Pages: 24-32

Notes: Derivative; calls TJ a "Rousseauist."

Reference: 1754

1755

Name: Krislov Samuel
Title: "Jefferson and Judicial Review: Refereeing Cahn, Commager, and Mendelson."

Publication: Journal of Public Law
Volume: 9
Date: (1960)
Pages: 374-81

Notes: Argues that TJ's position on judicial review was consistent. He admitted the right of the judiciary to declare a law unconstitutional but held that judicial review did not necessarily imply judicial supremacy over the legislature.

Reference: 1755

1756

Name: Krock Arthur
Title: "Jefferson's Stepchildren."

Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 7
Date: (1926)
Pages: 129-35

Notes: In 1926 "the Northern and Eastern Democracy happen to be the only Jeffersonian elements of the party," and this is accidental.

Reference: 1756

1757

Name: Kuper , Theodore Fred
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery."

Publication: New York State Bar Journal
Volume: 42
Date: (1970)
Pages: 125-32

Notes: TJ's opposition to slavery; minor.

Reference: 1757

1758

Name: Lacy , Alexander Bustard, Jr.
Title: "Jefferson and Congress: Congressional Method and Politics, 1801-1809."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. iii, 326

Notes: By developing and using his role as party leader, TJ became an effective presidential leader. He effected little change in legal institutions, but he fostered "a pattern of political behavior which actually by-passed, and in effect made obsolete, certain aspects of the formal constitutional system." DAI 25/05, p. 3084.

Reference: 1758

1759

Name: Langhorne Elizabeth
Title: "Edward Coles, Thomas Jefferson, and the Rights of Man."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 23
Date: 1973
Pages: 30-37

Notes: Focus on Coles, TJ's private secretary who moved to Illinois in order to free his slaves after TJ declined to lead a campaign for emancipation.

Reference: 1759

1760

Name: Larus Joel
Title: "Pell-Mell Along the Potomac."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 17
Date: (1960)
Pages: 349-57

Notes: TJ and Anthony Merry, the British minister, clash over protocol as observed at a White House dinner.

Reference: 1760

1761

Name: Latane , John Holladay
Title: "Jefferson's Influence on American Foreign Policy."

Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 17
Date: (1924)
Pages: 245-69

Notes: Discusses Woodrow Wilson's critical assessment of TJ and notes how similar the two presidents were. TJ would have hailed any system replacing physical coercion with moral force.

Reference: 1761

1762

Name: Lemen , Joseph B.
Title: "The Jefferson-Lemen Anti-slavery Pact."

Publication: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1908.
Publisher: Illinois State Journal Co.
City: Springfield
Date: 1909
Pages: 74-84

Notes: Claims TJ sent James Lemen as a "confidential agent" into the Illinois section of the Northwest Territory to oppose slavery and later encouraged him to form a Baptist church with an anti-slavery platform. Evidence is extremely thin.

Reference: 1762

1763

Name: Lathrop , Mary F.
Title: "Jefferson's Contribution to the Law of the West"

Publication: Pennsylvania Bar Association. Report of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting
Publisher: Printed for the Association
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1927
Pages: 297-307

Reference: 1763

1764

Name: Leffmann Henry
Title: "The True Story of the Declaration of Independence."

Publication: Philadelphia History
Volume: 2
Date: (1917)
Pages: 21-35

Notes: Background to TJ's writing of the Declaration; minor.

Reference: 1764

1765

Name: Lerche , Charles O., Jr.
Title: "Jefferson and the Election of 1800: A Case Study in the Political Smear."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 5
Date: (1948)
Pages: 467-91

Notes: Analyzes anti-Jefferson propaganda; the one achievement of the Federalist writers was to damage TJ's reputation "so badly that many of their charges linger today."

Reference: 1765

1766

Name: Levy , Leonard W.
Title: "The Emergence of an American Libertarian Theory"

Publication: Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History.
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
City: Cambridge
Date: 1960
Pages: 249-312

Notes: Gives TJ least possible amount of credit for evolving libertarian principles and most blame for contradictory practice during his administration.

Reference: 1766

1767

Name: Levy , Leonard W.
Title: Jefferson & Civil Liberties, The Darker Side

Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
City: Cambridge
Date: 1963
Pages: pp. xv, 225

Notes: Argues that, although TJ was a libertarian who was an important worker for American civil liberties, he "never once risked career or reputation to champion free speech, fair trial, or any other libertarian value. On many occasions he was on the wrong side. On others he trimmed his sails and remained silent." Not all readers will agree with this book, but those wishing to deal with the subject must take account of it.

Reference: 1767

1768

Name: Levy Leonard
Title: "Jefferson as a Civil Libertarian"

Publication: Thomas Jefferson: The Man ... His World ... His Influence, ed. Lally Weymouth
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1973
Pages: 189-215

Notes: The dark side of TJ's record. "A philosopher of freedom without a philosophy of freedom," he was poorly equipped to confront what he saw as challenges to freedom or to recognize how his own actions or those of his supporters threatened it.

Reference: 1768

1769

Name: Levy Richard
Title: "The First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson: The Founding of the American Republic."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago
City: Chicago
Date: 1966
Pages: none given

Reference: 1769

1770

Name: Lewis , Anthony Marc
Title: "Jefferson and the American Union, 1769-1781."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Michigan
Date: 1946
Pages: none given

Reference: 1770

1771

Name: Lewis , Anthony Marc
Title: "Jefferson and Virginia's Pioneers, 1774-1781."

Publication: MVHR
Volume: 34
Date: (1948)
Pages: 551-88

Notes: TJ was interested in encouraging settlers in Kentucky with cheap land, secure tenure, and military defense; he worked to control land speculators and as governor took an active interest in military affairs in the West.

Reference: 1771

1772

Name: Lewis , Anthony M.
Title: "Jefferson's Summary View as a Chart of Political Union."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 5
Date: (1948)
Pages: 34-51

Notes: Analysis of A Summary View shows that TJ "more clearly perhaps than did any of his contemporaries, ... forecast a desirable division of sovereign powers between the local and the imperial sphere." At the same time, it foretells "his constant support of an American confederacy."

Reference: 1772

1773

Name: Libby , O. G.
Title: "Political Factions in Washington's Administrations."

Publication: The Quarterly Journal
Volume: 3
Date: 1913
Pages: 293-318

Notes: Contends that political factions in first four congresses did not reflect pre-constitutional divisions of federalists and anti-feds nor was there any real party organization, mostly because of the absence of talented party leaders. Hamilton "lacked ability to lead men," and TJ would find his key issues only during the Adams administration.

Reference: 1773

1774

Name: Lichtenstein Gaston
Title: Thomas Jefferson as War Governor, Also Three Travel Articles and Some North Carolina History

Publisher: William Byrd Press
City: Richmond, Va.
Date: 1925
Pages: 9-42

Notes: Quotes extensively from TJ's correspondence, but offers little critical or analytical comment and that diffuse and digressive.

Reference: 1774

1775

Name: Lindsey David
Title: "George Canning and Jefferson's Embargo, 1807-1809."

Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: l
Date: 1952
Pages: 43-47

Notes: On Canning, who felt U.S. supplies and markets were not essential to the success of England's war against France.

Reference: 1775

1776

Name: Little David
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Religious Views and Their Influence on the Supreme Court's Interpretation of the First Amendment."

Publication: Catholic University Law Review
Volume: 26
Date: (1976)
Pages: 57-72

Notes: Contends that because religious beliefs "were finally irrelevant and unimportant to Jefferson ... he believed they should be set apart and fenced off from the world of action."

Reference: 1776

1777

Name: Lokke , Carl Ludwig
Title: "Jefferson and the Leclerc Expedition."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 33
Date: (1928)
Pages: 322-28

Notes: TJ's support for French recovery of St. Domingo was exaggerated in Pichon's reports to Bonaparte.

Reference: 1777

1778

Name: Long , Everett Lee
Title: "Jefferson and Congress: A Study of the Jeffersonian Legislative System, 1801-1809."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Missouri
Date: 1966
Pages: pp. 494

Notes: TJ as president took a pragmatic and moderate course in dealing with Congress in order to attract to the Republican party the broad center of political opinion and in order to respect the sensitivities of Congress members. Discusses executive initiative of legislation, use of floor leaders in Congress, the party caucus, and executive oversight of legislation. DAI 27/04A, p. 1017.

Reference: 1778

1779

Name: Lorant Stefan
Title: "The Fourth Election—1800" and "The Fifth Election— 1804"

Publication: The Presidency: A Pictorial History of the Presidential Elections from Washington to Truman
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1951
Pages: 43-65

Notes: Popular history with interesting illustrations.

Reference: 1779

1780

Name: Lotts , Velma Capps
Title: "Jefferson's Pre-Presidential Criticism of the Federal Judiciary."

Publication: Marshall Review
Volume: 3
Date: 1940
Pages: 27-33

Notes: Competent survey, but nothing new.

Reference: 1780

1781

Name: Lovett , Robert Morss
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase."

Publication: New England Magazine
Volume: n.s. 1
Date: (1890)
Pages: 569-77

Notes: The Purchase as TJ's accomplishment.

Reference: 1781

1782

Name: Luckwaldt Friedrich
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Meister der Politik. Eine Weltgeschichtliche Reihe von Bildnessen, hgb. Erich Marcks und Karl Alexander von Muller
Publisher: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
City: Stuttgart
Date: 1922
Pages: 2:275-324

Reference: 1782

1783

Name: Lydon , James G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Mathurins."

Publication: Catholic Historical Review
Volume: 49
Date: (1963)
Pages: 192-202

Notes: TJ used members of the Mathurins, or Order of the Holy Trinity, to aid in redemption of American captives from the Barbary pirates in 1787-90.

Reference: 1783

1784

Name: Lyman , Jane Louise
Title: "Jefferson and Negro Slavery."

Publication: Journal of Negro Education
Volume: 16
Date: (1947)
Pages: 10-27

Notes: Explains away TJ's views on race, presenting him as an opponent of slavery.

Reference: 1784

1785

Name: Lynch , William O.
Title: "Jefferson the Liberal."

Publication: Indiana Magazine of History
Volume: 40
Date: (1944)
Pages: 41-47

Notes: General sketch of TJ's political life.

Reference: 1785

1786

Name: McBain , Howard Lee
Title: "Jefferson and the New York Patronage"

Publication: DeWitt Clinton and the Origin of the Spoils System in New York
Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1907
Pages: 139-58

Notes: Argues that TJ tended to take the side of the Clintons rather than Burr in patronage decisions but denies that there was any collusion to separate Burr from the Republican party.

Reference: 1786

1787

Name: McCaleb , Walter Flavius
Title: The Aaron Burr Conspiracy. A History Largely from Original and Hitherto Unused Sources

Publisher: Dodd Mead
City: New York
Date: 1903
Pages: pp. xviii, 309

Notes: Contends that James Wilkinson accused Burr of treason to save his own skin and misled TJ. TJ interpreted criticism of his subsequent actions as partisan malice; he lost his temper and self-control, began to act obstinately and vindictively, and revealed his shortcomings. Rpt. in an expanded edition with introduction by Charles A. Beard, New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936.

Reference: 1787

1788

Name: McCaleb , Walter F.
Title: "Early Pattern for Tyranny in the U.S."

Publication: Texas Quarterly
Volume: 2
Date: 1959
Pages: 142-51

Notes: Colorful, if somewhat careless, account of the Burr trial in which, the author contends, TJ set a pattern of tyranny for later generations.

Reference: 1788

1789

Name: McCaleb , Walter F.
Title: New Light on Aaron Burr

Publication: Austin: Texas Quarterly Studies
Date: 1963
Pages: pp. xxi, 166

Notes: See particularly in Chapter 9, "Jefferson's Conduct" (96-102), which charges 'qn relation to the Conspiracy, Thomas Jefferson occupies a meretricious position, unique, malevolent." Sees Burr as an innocent victim .

Reference: 1789

1790

Name: McCarrell , David K.
Title: "The Formation of the Jeffersonian Party in Virginia."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Duke Univ.
City: Durham
Date: 1937
Pages: none given

Reference: 1790

1791

Name: McColley , Robert McNair
Title: "Gentlemen and Slavery in Jefferson's Virginia."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of California, Berkeley
City: Berkeley
Date: 1961
Pages: none given

Notes: Published in 1964 as Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia.

Reference: 1791

1792

Name: McColley Robert
Title: Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia

Publisher: Univ. of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. x, 227

Notes: Covers approximately the years of 1776-1815; Virginia Jeffersonians developed "the model theory of American racism," and TJ was the model racist. But if TJ was well behind such public advocates of emancipation as John Jay, Anthony Benezet, and Robert Pleasants, he went as far as an elected representative of Virginia could go in attacking slavery.

Reference: 1792

1793

Name: McCormick , Robert R.
Title: An Address by Colonel Robert R. McCormick

City: Monticello
Date: 1931
Pages: pp. (6)

Notes: Celebrates the Supreme Court decision of 1931, Near vs. State of Minnesota, as a confirmation of TJ's principles.

Reference: 1793

1794

Name: McCoy , Drew R.
Title: The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America

Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hill
Date: 1980
Pages: pp. ix, 268

Notes: On Jeffersonians rather than TJ, but he is frequently touched on, and this offers useful insights into his economic ideas and policies.

Reference: 1794

1795

Name: McDonald Forrest
Title: "A Mirror for Presidents."

Publication: Commentary
Volume: 62
Date: 1976
Pages: 34-41

Notes: Presidential experience of TJ described and offered as a model for Jimmy Carter in terms of a way to master both the ritualistic and executive functions of the presidency.

Reference: 1795

1796

Name: McDonald Forrest
Title: The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Univ. Press of Kansas
City: Lawrence
Date: 1976
Pages: pp. xii, 201

Notes: Surveys TJ's eight years in the White House; traces influences of whig ideology, Bolingbroke, etc., but perhaps overstates the case. Argues that TJ made a serious mistake in insisting upon the elimination of the public debt.

Reference: 1796

1797

Name: McGinnis , Charles A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Middle West."

Publication: Negro History Bulletin
Volume: 5
Date: 1942
Pages: 173, 191

Notes: Credits TJ with keeping slavery out of the old Northwest.

Reference: 1797

1798

Name: McGrath , Paul Cox
Title: "Secretary Jefferson and Revolutionary France, 1790-1793."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Boston Univ.
City: Boston
Date: 1950
Pages: none given

Reference: 1798

1799

Name: McIlwaine , H. R., ed.
Title: Official Letters of the Governors of Virginia. II. Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Virginia State Library
City: Richmond
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. ix, 567

Notes: Prints letters of TJ and of those acting for him in his absence; brief notes.

Reference: 1799

1800

Name: MacKaye Benton
Title: "Genesis and Jefferson."

Publication: Survey
Volume: 86
Date: (1950)
Pages: 556-59

Notes: Claims TJ was a great "geotechnist," i.e. a sort of ecologist cum economist and regional planner.

Reference: 1800

1801

Name: McKee , George H.
Title: Th. Jefferson, Ami de la Revolution Francaise

Publisher: Imprimerie Al. Cathrine
City: Lorient
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. x, 325

Notes: Rpt. Paris: Nizet et Bastard, 1935. "These pour le doctorat d'universite presentee a la l~aculte des Lettres de Grenoble." Sees TJ too simply as friend of France; defines party orientation in the U.S. as democrates francophiles and federalistes an~lophiles. Criticizes Genet more for his manners than for the substance of his actions.

Reference: 1801

1802

Name: McLaughlin William G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Beginning of Cherokee Nationalism, 1806 to 1809."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 32
Date: (1975)
Pages: 547-80

Notes: Argues that the rise of Cherokee nationalism was encouraged by the response to TJ's 1808 proposal to move the tribe to the West and to his alternative offer of integration of Cherokees as fee simple farmer-citizens of the U.S. Focus on the Cherokees, not TJ.

Reference: 1802

1803

Name: McLemore , R. A.
Title: "Jeffersonian Diplomacy in the Purchase of Louisiana, 1803."

Publication: Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Volume: 18
Date: (1935)
Pages: 246-53

Notes: A letter from TJ to Robert Livingston, minister at Paris, shows his determination and skill in diplomatic moves to obtain Louisiana, despite Henry Adams' claims to the contrary.

Reference: 1803

1804

Name: MacLeod , Julia H.
Title: "Jefferson and the Navy: A Defense."

Publication: Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume: 8
Date: (1945)
Pages: 153-84

Notes: TJ understood the strategic use of naval power and was in some ways far in advance of his time; his support for the navy, however, was balanced by his concern to eliminate the national debt and by his recognition of the nation's financial inability to support a navy large enough to gain control of the seas from the much larger British fleet.

Reference: 1804

1805

Name: Macmillan Malcolm C.
Title: "Jeffersonian Democracy and the Origins of Sectionalism"

Publication: Writing Southern History: Essays in Historiography in Honor of Fletcher M. Green, ed. Arthur S. Link and Rembert W. Patrick
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ. Press
City: Baton Rouge
Date: 1965
Pages: 91-124

Notes: In effect a bibliographical essay, useful for material written before 1964.

Reference: 1805

1806

Name: MacNaul , Willard C.
Title: The Jefferson-Lemen Compact: The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and the Northwest Territory, with Related Documents 1781-1818

Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1915
Pages: pp. 59

Notes: Details of the supposed agreement in which TJ encouraged Lemen to go to Illinois to work against the introduction of slavery. Reprints all the "evidence" which exists only in copies made by members of the Lemen family.

Reference: 1806

1807

Name: Madison James
Title: Letters on the Constitutionality and Policy of Duties, for the Protection and Encouragement of Manufactures

Publisher: Thomas W. White
City: Richmond
Date: 1829
Pages: pp. 27, 4

Notes: Prints extracts from TJ's letters in support of congressional power to set protective duties.

Reference: 1807

1808

Name: Malone , Dumas and Garry Wills
Title: "Executive Privilege: Jefferson & Burr & Nixon & Ehrlichman."

Publication: New York Review of Books
Volume: 21
Date: 1974
Pages: 36-40

Notes: Malone replies to Wills' earlier review essay on the Burr trial (see below), and Wills rejoins at length.

Reference: 1808

1809

Name: Malone Dumas
Title: "Jefferson, Hamilton, and the Constitution"

Publication: Theory and Practice in American Politics, ed. William H. Nelson
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1964
Pages: 13-23

Notes: TJ and Hamilton were important agents in the process of interpreting the Constitution, but constitutional interpretation cannot be divorced from historical circumstances. Discusses the bank question and the Alien and Sedition Laws.

Reference: 1809

1810

Name: Malone Dumas
Title: "Presidential Leadership and National Unity: The Jeffersonian Example."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 35
Date: (1969)
Pages: 3-17

Notes: General survey of TJ's conduct of the presidency, contrasted with the situation and conduct of recent presidents.

Reference: 1810

1811

Name: Malone Dumas
Title: The Story of the Declaration of Independence

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. 282

Notes: Background account of the drafting, lives of the signers; aimed at a general audience. Illustrated.

Reference: 1811

1812

Name: Malone Dumas
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Lawyer."

Publication: Essential Books
Volume: l
Date: 1955
Pages: 5-8

Notes: Discusses the conditions of being a lawyer in Virginia circa 1770 and TJ's professional activities at that time.

Reference: 1812

1813

Name: Malone Dumas
Title: Thomas Jefferson as Political Leader

Publisher: Univ. of California Press
City: Berkeley
Date: 1963
Pages: pp. viii, 75

Notes: How TJ became a party leader, developed in biographical terms.

Reference: 1813

1814

Name: Mannix Richard
Title: "Gallatin, Jefferson, and the Embargo of 1808."

Publication: Diplomatic History
Volume: 3
Date: (1979)
Pages: 151-72

Notes: Contends that TJ was not concerned with the Embargo, did not see it as his measure, and was unaware of the details and requirements of its operation. Only Gallatin, somewhat reluctantly, made an effort to manage the Embargo.

Reference: 1814

1815

Name: Mansfield , Harvey C., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: American Political Thought, ed. Morton Frisch and Richard Stevens
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1971
Pages: 23-50

Notes: Competent survey of TJ's political career, his ideas, and influence; balances idealism against partisanship.

Reference: 1815

1816

Name: Marchione Margherita
Title: Philip Mazzei: Jefferson's 'Zealous Whig.'

Publisher: American Institute of Italian Studies
City: New York
Date: 1975
Pages: pp. x, 350

Notes: Biographical chapter (15-34) focuses on Mazzei's American adventures, followed by facsimiles of correspondence and a translation of his Historical and Political Enquiries on the United States of North America.

Reference: 1816

1817

Name: Marsh Philip
Title: "Jefferson and Freneau."

Publication: American Scholar
Volume: 16
Date: (1947)
Pages: 201-10

Notes: Freneau, TJ, and the National Gazette.

Reference: 1817

1818

Name: Marsh Philip
Title: "Jefferson and Journalism."

Publication: Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume: 9
Date: (1946)
Pages: 209-12

Notes: TJ in the 1790's urged both Madison and Edmund Pendleton to write against Hamilton and the Federalists; apparently he solicited only these two to take up their pens.

Reference: 1818

1819

Name: Marsh Philip
Title: "Jefferson's 'Conduct' of the National Gazette."

Publication: Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society
Volume: 63
Date: (1945)
Pages: 69-73

Notes: Argues that TJ did not direct Freneau's paper.

Reference: 1819

1820

Name: Marsh , Philip M., ed.
Title: Monroe's Defense of Jefferson and Freneau against Hamilton

City: Oxford, Ohio
Date: 1948
Pages: pp. 56

Notes: Reprints Hamilton's anonymous newspaper attacks on TJ and anonymous replies by Monroe, written in collaboration with Madison in 1792-93. Introduction and notes.

Reference: 1820

1821

Name: Marsh Philip
Title: "Monroe's Draft of the Defense of Freneau."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 71
Date: (1947)
Pages: 73-76

Notes: Monroe defends TJ~s appointment of Freneau as a translator.

Reference: 1821

1822

Name: Marsh , Philip M.
Title: "Randolph and Hamilton: 'Aristides' Replies to 'An American,"Catullus,' and 'Scourge."'

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 72
Date: (1948)
Pages: 247-52

Notes: Edmund Randolph, "Aristides," replies to Hamilton, writing under three pseudonyms in attack upon TJ, but Randolph's middle of the road position ended up satisfying neither TJ nor Hamilton.

Reference: 1822

1823

Name: Marshall John
Title: "John Marshall Renders His Opinion of Mr. Jefferson."

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 30
Date: (1972)
Pages: 15-18

Notes: Letter of Marshall to Henry Lee, dated October 25, 1830, comments acerbly on the recent edition of TJ's writings and calls Lee's attention to the "peculiar asperity with which he speaks of your father." See item #689.

Reference: 1823

1824

Name: Master , R. W.
Title: "Jefferson and the Constitution."

Publication: World Review
Volume: 4
Date: 1927
Pages: 87

Notes: Outline for contestants in the National Oratorical Contest.

Reference: 1824

1825

Name: Mayer Frederick
Title: "The Historical Significance of the Struggle Between Hamilton and Jefferson."

Publication: Social Studies
Volume: 40
Date: (1949)
Pages: 165-67

Notes: "Hamilton was the Hobbes of the United States.... Jefferson was the first New Dealer." Superficial.

Reference: 1825

1826

Name: Mayes , R. B.
Title: "The Divine Legation of Thomas Jefferson.—Are All Men Created Free?—Are All Men Created White?"

Publication: DeBow's Review
Volume: 30
Date: (1861)
Pages: 521-32

Notes: Taken literally, the Declaration contradicts the Bible, which suggests "man" as exclusively applicable to the white race.

Reference: 1826

1827

Name: Mead , Edwin D.
Title: "Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin on War."

Publication: World Peace Foundation Pamphlet
Volume: 3
Date: 1913
Pages: 1-15

Notes: TJ saw war as "The greatest of human evils."

Reference: 1827

1828

Name: Meisen , Adolph Frank
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, War Governor of Virginia."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina
Date: 1943
Pages: none given

Reference: 1828

1829

Name: Mendelson Wallace
Title: "Cahn on Jefferson, Commager and Learned Hand."

Publication: Texas Law Review
Volume: 37
Date: (1959)
Pages: 721 ff

Notes: Responds to 1958 article by Edmond Cahn by pointing out TJ changed his mind on judicial review after 1789.

Reference: 1829

1830

Name: Mendelson Wallace and Samuel Krislov
Title: "Jefferson on Judicial Review."

Publication: Journal of Public Law
Volume: 10
Date: (1961)
Pages: 113-24

Notes: "A Reply to Professor Krislov" and "The Alleged Inconsistency: A Revised Version" debate Krislov's article in J. Pub. Law., 9(1960), on the consistency of TJ's views on judicial review.

Reference: 1830

1831

Name: Mercer , Charles Fenton
Title: An Exposition of the Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the United States of North America

Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1845
Pages: pp. 380

Notes: See especially the chapter on "Jeffersonian Policy" (234-58) for a detailed attack on TJ's political ideas and politics. "No matter what evil invades the land, what dreadful ruin breaks up our institutions, what disgrace attacks and leaves its foul spot on our character, all may be traced to the damnable policy of Thomas Jefferson and his party."

Reference: 1831

1832

Name: Merriam , Charles Edward
Title: "The Jeffersonian Democracy"

Publication: A History of American Political Theories
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1903
Pages: 143-75

Notes: Argues that Jeffersonian theory was democratic although his practice was in many ways aristocratic; its full realization was left for another time and another party."

Reference: 1832

1833

Name: Merriam , J. M.
Title: "Jefferson's Use of the Executive Patronage."

Publication: American Historical Association Papers
Volume: 2
Date: (1887)
Pages: 47-52

Notes: Abstract of a delivered paper contending that TJ made far more removals than commonly believed, and he increasingly emphasized political opposition as a cause for removal.

Reference: 1833

1834

Name: Miller , John C.
Title: Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts.

Publisher: Little Brown
City: Boston
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 253

Notes: TJ touched on throughout; pp. I69-81 focus on his role and Madison's in drawing up the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which offered the most forceful statement of the constitutional objections to the acts. Argues that their failure strengthened the Federalists' belief that public opinion was with them.

Reference: 1834

1835

Name: Millspaugh , Arthur C.
Title: "The Jeffersonian Resolution"

Publication: Democracy, Efficiency, Stability: An Appraisal of American Government.
Publisher: Brookings Institution
City: Washington
Date: 1942
Pages: 48-51

Notes: Generalized assessment of TJ as a "strong" president.

Reference: 1835

1836

Name: Minnegerode Meade
Title: Jefferson, Friend of France, 1793; The Career of Edmond Charles Genet, Minister Plenipotentiary from the French Republic to the United States, as Revealed by His Private Papers, 1763-1843

Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. xiv, 447

Notes: Focus on Genet; uncritically accepts Genet's charge that TJ betrayed him and presents a Hamiltonian view of TJ.

Reference: 1836

1837

Name: Minnegerode Meade
Title: "The Mammoth of Democracy"

Publication: Presidential Years 1787-1860
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1928
Pages: 77-121

Notes: Popular social history focusing on the events leading up to TJ's election in 1800.

Reference: 1837

1838

Name: Minor Charles
Title: Oration Delivered at the Request of the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia, on the Anniversary of the Birth-Day of Thomas Jefferson, April 13, 1834, in the Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, Va.

Publisher: Wm. Tompkins
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1834
Pages: pp.14

Notes: In praise of popular government, with a nod to TJ.

Reference: 1838

1839

Name: Minor Henry
Title: "Democratic Dominance Under Jefferson" and "Democratic Government Fixed by Jefferson"

Publication: The Story of the Democratic Party
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1928
Pages: 38-65

Notes: TJ stopped the national government's tendency to assume power over the people, but he did not reject the idea of a powerful government ruled by the people.

Reference: 1839

1840

Name: Minor Robert
Title: "Titan of Freedom."

Publication: New Masses
Volume: 47
Date: 1943
Pages: 10-13

Notes: TJ as a progressive, unfortunately dying before Marx discovered the truth about the forces of production; suggests that both TJ and Stalin understand constitutions as a technique of preventing political regress.

Reference: 1840

1841

Name: Anonymous none
Title: "Mr. Jefferson."

Publication: Southern Literary Messenger
Volume: 7
Date: (1841)
Pages: 287-88

Notes: Claims TJ insisted upon "a uniformly strict construction of the Constitution."

Reference: 1841

1842

Name: Moley Raymond
Title: "The Wisdom of a Ghost."

Publication: Newsweek
Volume: 12
Date: 1938
Pages: 44

Notes: TJ knew how to build a party, but the Democrats of 1938 fail to heed his example.

Reference: 1842

1843

Name: Moore , Justus E.
Title: The Warning of Thomas Jefferson; or a Brief Exposition of Dangers to Be Apprehended to Our Civil and Religious Liberties from Presbyterianism

Publisher: Wm. J. Cunningham
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1844
Pages: pp. 35

Notes: Criticism of anti-Catholic rhetoric and riots.

Reference: 1843

1844

Name: Moore , R. Walton
Title: "Earewell Address to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and Resolution Relative Thereunto."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 11
Date: (1931)
Pages: 59-60

Notes: Prints with notes address from Virginia General Assembly.

Reference: 1844

1845

Name: Morgan , Donald Grant
Title: "The Origins of Supreme Court Dissent."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 10
Date: (1953)
Pages: 353-77

Notes: Examines judicial career of Justice William Johnson, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1804, and his relationship with TJ.

Reference: 1845

1846

Name: Morgan , James Morris
Title: "How President Jefferson Was Informed of Burr's Conspiracy."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 27
Date: (1903)
Pages: 56-69

Notes: TJ first heard of Burr's plans from Colonel John Morgan.

Reference: 1846

1847

Name: Morris , Roland S.
Title: "Jefferson as a Lawyer."

Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 87
Date: (1943)
Pages: 211-15

Notes: Sketchy.

Reference: 1847

1848

Name: Morse , Anson D.
Title: "The Significance of the Democratic Party in American Politics."

Publication: International Monthly
Volume: 2
Date: (1900)
Pages: 437-56

Notes: TJ's policy prevented a revival of federalism, but it also federalized his own party. Suggests TJ "tried to make all classes democratic," but Jackson appealed to class interest.

Reference: 1848

1849

Name: Moses , Ernest C.
Title: "The Signing of the Declaration, With Documental History

Publication: American Monthly Magazine
Volume: 23
Date: (1903)
Pages: 107-10

Notes: Questions TJ's reminiscences about signing the Declaration on the 4th.

Reference: 1849

1850

Name: Mott , Frank L.
Title: Jefferson and the Press

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ. Press
City: Baton Rouge
Date: 1943
Pages: pp. 65

Notes: TJ "adhered to the principle, but was deeply disappointed in the performance, of a free press."

Reference: 1850

1851

Name: Mumper , James Arthur
Title: "The Jefferson Image in the Federalist Mind, 1801-1809: Jefferson's Administration from the Federalist Point of View."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1966
Pages: pp. 501

Notes: The Federalists, even after Hamilton's eclipse, continued to attack TJ along the lines formed in May to October of 1792. The hard-core party line blinded them to the nature of the opposition and to the role of popular parties in a modern two-party system. DAI 27/10A, p. 3405.

Reference: 1851

1852

Name: Munves James
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence

Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1978
Pages: pp. viii, 135

Notes: An examination of the textual evolution of the Declaration, based on Becker and Boyd and aimed at a non-scholarly audience.

Reference: 1852

1853

Name: Muresan Camil
Title: "Declaratia de Independenta a Statelor Unite ale America."

Publication: Steaua
Volume: 27
Date: 1976
Pages: 18-19

Notes: In Rumanian.

Reference: 1853

1854

Name: Anonymous none
Title: National Association of Democratic Clubs. Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1897. One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Birthday Anniversary Celebration, Tuesday, April Thirteenth, 1897, ....

Publisher: N. T. Elliott
City: Washington
Date: 1897
Pages: pp. 100

Notes: Testimonials to TJ from Democratic political leaders; also words and music to William T. Whelan's "the Jeffersonian Banner."

Reference: 1854

1855

Name: Anonymous none
Title: National Democratic Club. Banquet by the Democratic Club in Celebration of the 156th Birthday of Thomas Jefferson on Thursday April 13th, 1899, at the Metropolitan Opera House

Publisher: W. P. Mitchell & Son
City: New Yor
Date: 1899
Pages: pp. 80

Notes: Tributes to TJ from leading Democrats.

Reference: 1855

1856

Name: Nevins Allan
Title: The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 324-33

Notes: Discusses TJ's governorship of Virginia which exposed in him "certain real defects of capacity."

Reference: 1856

1857

Name: Nicolay Helen
Title: "Our Nation in the Building; The Romance of American Union."

Publication: Century Magazine
Volume: 91
Date: (1914-15)
Pages: 189-215, 456-65

Notes: Popular treatment; these installments cover TJ's presidency.

Reference: 1857

1858

Name: Norcross Jonathan
Title: The History of Democracy Considered as a Party Name and as a Political Organization

Publisher: Published for the Author by G. P. Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1883
Pages: 65-78

Notes: Democrats are demagogues, dissolute and perpetually dissatisfied, but TJ was a Republican (GOP), "although he did many very naughty things that looked like Democratic deeds." Doubts that he wrote the "treasonable" Kentucky Resolutions.

Reference: 1858

1859

Name: Nunis , Doyce B., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Man"

Publication: American Political Thought: Search for Nationhood
Publisher: Addision-Wesley
City: Menlo Park, Cal.
Date: 1975
Pages: 38-60

Notes: Survey for undergraduates; emphasis on "Jefferson the doctrinaire."

Reference: 1859

1860

Name: Nussbaum Frederick L.
Title: "American Tobacco and French Politics, 1783-1789."

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 40
Date: (1925)
Pages: 497-516

Notes: Examines TJ's efforts to end the control of the Farmers General over the American tobacco trade and to oppose the creation of monopolies such as that envisioned by Robert Morris.

Reference: 1860

1861

Name: O'Brien , Charles F.
Title: "The Religious Issue in the Presidential Campaign of 1800."

Publication: Essex Institute Historical Collections
Volume: 107
Date: (1971)
Pages: 82-93

Notes: Survey of religious dimension of ~ederalist campaign against TJ.

Reference: 1861

1862

Name: Anonymous none
Title: "On the Question of Re-election."

Publication: Current History
Volume: n.s. 7
Date: 1944
Pages: 178-80

Notes: Prints selections from TJ's letters, with a comment that they are particularly appropriate at a time when for the first time an American president is seeking a fourth term.

Reference: 1862

1863

Name: Anonymous none
Title: The Ordinance of 1784 and Jefferson's Services for the Northwest Territory

Publication: Old South Leaflets
Volume: no. 127
Publisher: Directors of the Old South Work
City: Boston
Date: 1902
Pages: pp. 24

Notes: Prints TJ's report of 1784, supporting documents and letters, and commentary on his role in developing the Northwest Territory.

Reference: 1863

1864

Name: Osborn , Robert W.
Title: "Portrait of a Revolutionary: Thomas Jefferson and the Coming of the American Revolution."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Fort Hays State College
Date: 1969
Pages: none given

Reference: 1864

1865

Name: Anonymous none
Title: "Our Eirst Economy President, A Review of the First English Biography of Jefferson."

Publication: World's Work
Volume: 51
Date: (1926)
Pages: 666-67

Notes: Praises Hirst's biography for its understanding of TJ's economic programs.

Reference: 1865

1866

Name: Owsley , Frank Lawrence
Title: "The Foundations of Democracy."

Publication: Southern Review
Volume: 1
Date: (1936)
Pages: 708-20

Notes: Argues that through control of the courts the Hamiltonians have subverted TJ's vision of liberty, i.e. state rights, strict construction, and laissez faire; claims the Fourteenth Amendment is a plutocratic instrument.

Reference: 1866

1867

Name: Padover , Saul K.
Title: "Jefferson's Prose Poem: The Declaration of Independence."

Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 54
Date: (1942)
Pages: 165-71

Notes: Account of the composition of the Declaration.

Reference: 1867

1868

Name: Padover , Saul K.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Election of 1800."

Publication: Lithopinion
Volume: 7
Date: 1972
Pages: 8-14

Notes: Succinct account of conditions leading up to the election and the 36 ballots required to elect TJ.

Reference: 1868

1869

Name: Page , Ralph W.
Title: "The British-American Adventures Toward Liberty."

Publication: World's Work
Volume: 35
Date: (1917)
Pages: 48-65

Notes: TJ by purchasing Louisiana helped checkmate Napoleon, thus taking part in a long history of Anglo-American cooperation to preserve liberty. A novel view.

Reference: 1869

1870

Name: Palmer , Robert R.
Title: "The Dubious Democrat: Thomas Jefferson in Bourbon France."

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 72
Date: (1957)
Pages: 388-404

Notes: Analyzes TJ's attitudes to the Revolution while in France; suggests he moved from tepid support in 1789 to become the leading American sympathizer in 1793 because of his fundamental belief in liberty and equality, his recognition of the possibility of attaining the ideals of the revolution, and his understanding of the real political issues involved.

Reference: 1870

1871

Name: Pancake , John S.
Title: Thomas Jefferson & Alexander Hamilton

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
City: Woodbury, N.Y.
Date: 1974
Pages: pp. 521

Notes: A "duo-biography" which focuses on the argument between TJ and Hamilton over the solution to the "federal problem," the correct balance between the demands of society and the rights of the individual.

Reference: 1871

1872

Name: Park Edwards
Title: "Absolutely, Dr. Franklin?—Positively, Mr. Jefferson"'

Publication: Smithsonian
Volume: 7
Date: 1976
Pages: 50-51

Notes: "Two knowledgeable ghosts case modern America with incredulity and some feeling of regret."

Reference: 1872

1873

Name: Patterson , Caleb Perry
Title: Constitutional Principles of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Univ. of Texas Press
City: Austin
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. 211

Notes: Contends TJ believed in "constitutional supremacy" in opposition to supremacy of the executive, legislative, or judiciary branches. This means opposition to centralization of power, strict construction, and the ultimate supremacy of the people over the Constitution, although TJ was no doctrinaire.

Reference: 1873

1874

Name: Patterson , Caleb Perry
Title: "Jefferson and Judicial Review."

Publication: American Bar Association Journal
Volume: 30
Date: (1944)
Pages: 431-51

Notes: Competently examines TJ's changing opinions of judicial review in order to argue that he ultimately opposed making the Constitution "a blank paper by construction."

Reference: 1874

1875

Name: Patterson , C. Perry
Title: "Jefferson the Lawyer."

Publication: Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Review
Volume: 11
Date: (1950)
Pages: 369-96

Notes: Extensive survey of TJ and major contemporaries leads to the conclusion that at the Virginia bar TJ and John Marshall are most similar in their contributions to the law; TJ's contribution is greater in private law, Marshall's in public.

Reference: 1875

1876

Name: Patterson , Caleb Perry
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution."

Publication: Minnesota Law Review
Volume: 29
Date: 1945
Pages: 265-79

Notes: Survey of attitudes toward and opinions on the Constitution, arguing that he was "the most persistent advocate among the forefathers of the importance of a fundamental constitution," as well as being in favor of judicial review and of leaving power to amend in the hands of the people.

Reference: 1876

1877

Name: Pattison , William D.
Title: Beginnings of the American Rectangular Land Survey System, 1784-1800

Publication: Dept. of Geography Research Paper
Volume: No. 50
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1957
Pages: pp. vii, 248

Notes: TJ treated throughout in an interesting account of the surveying and establishing of boundaries in the Northwest Territory; see especially "Jefferson's Plan for Western States" (15-36).

Reference: 1877

1878

Name: Patton , Jacob Harris
Title: Political Parties in the United States, Their History and Influence

Publisher: New Amsterdam Book Co.
City: New York
Date: 1896
Pages: pp. ix, 387

Notes: Extremely partisan account of parties in the U.S., repeating with undiminished enthusiasm old Federalist charges against TJ; see pp. 9-52.

Reference: 1878

1879

Name: Pawelek Dick
Title: "Stormy Birth of U.S. Political Parties."

Publication: Senior Scholastic
Volume: 112
Date: 1979
Pages: 10-12

Notes: TJ provoked by Federalist excesses into forming a party.

Reference: 1879

1880

Name: Pease , Theodore Calvin
Title: "The Days of Jeffersonian Simplicity"

Publication: The United States
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 241-60

Notes: TJ's presidency treated with focus on TJ himself, principally in terms of his diplomatic successes and failures (the Embargo).

Reference: 1880

1881

Name: Pendleton , William C.
Title: "Organization of Virginia Government; Thomas Jefferson, Father of Virginia Government" and "Organization of Government under the Constitution; Political Battles Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton"

Publication: Political History of Appalachian Virginia 1776-1927
Publisher: Shenandoah Press
City: Dayton, Va.
Date: 1927
Pages: 29-35, 45-97

Notes: Claims the people of Appalachian Virginia were "almost en masse" behind TJ in his fight for popular government, and "their devotion to human freedom helped to inspire his heart and nerve his mind for the mighty struggle." Doubtful.

Reference: 1881

1882

Name: Penman , John Simpson
Title: The Irresistible Movement of Democracy

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1923
Pages: 55-90

Notes: On "The Origin and Development of the Jeffersonian Democracy" and "The Political Revolution of 1800" with little sense of TJ's motives or why his democracy was supposedly irresistible.

Reference: 1882

1883

Name: Perry , Ralph Barton
Title: "The Declaration of Independence"

Publication: Puritanism and Democracy
Publisher: Vanguard Press
City: New York
Date: 1944
Pages: 117-46

Notes: Discusses the historical and biographical context of the Declaration, arguing that it "contains the essential ideas of American democracy." The subsequent chapter (147-75) exposits the philosophical background of the document, but doesn't link ideas to TJ.

Reference: 1883

1884

Name: Peterson , Merrill D.
Title: "Process and Personality in Jefferson's Administration."

Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 7
Date: (1979)
Pages: 189-98

Notes: Review essay of Cunninghsm's Process of Government under Jefferson and Johnstone's Jefferson and the Presidency claims the most tantalizing issue raised here concerns the relationship between personal style and the process of government.

Reference: 1884

1885

Name: Peterson , Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and American National Policy, 1783-1793."

City: Charlottesville
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. 30

Notes: Mimeo typescript, "To be read at the Conference on Early American History, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 9, 1964." See the following item.

Reference: 1885

1886

Name: Peterson , Merrill D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Commercial Policy, 1783-1793."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 22
Date: (1965)
Pages: 584-610

Notes: Argues that TJ's commercial policy as articulated in his Report on Commerce of 1793 "can only be appraised in the light of antecedent experience," and his ideal of free exchange and pacific intercourse among nations dominated his work and thought on national affairs from 1783-1793.

Reference: 1886

1887

Name: Peterson , Norma Lois, ed.
Title: The Defence of Norfolk in 1807 as Told by William Tatham to Thomas Jefferson.

Publisher: Norfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake
City: Chesapeake, Va.
Date: 1970
Pages: pp. xiv, 118

Notes: Tatham's letters to TJ from Norfolk subsequent to the Chesapeake Leopard affair of June 22, 1807.

Reference: 1887

1888

Name: Phau Donald
Title: "The Treachery of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: The Campaigner
Volume: 13
Date: 1980
Pages: 4-32

Notes: Contends TJ fought unceasingly to undermine the federal republic, but he could not destroy America's Platonic tradition, "being revived today in the 1980 presidential campaign of Lyndon H. LaRouche."

Reference: 1888

1889

Name: Phayre , Ignatius [Fitzgerald, William George]
Title: "The Apostle of Unrestraint"

Publication: Can America Last? A Survey of the Emigrant Empire from the Wilderness to World Power, Together with Its Claims to "Sovereignty" in the Western Hemisphere from Pole to Pole
Publisher: J. Murray
City: London
Date: 1933
Pages: 127-41

Notes: TJ, "a muddled mischief-maker," is responsible for almost everything the author dislikes about the U.S.

Reference: 1889

1890

Name: Phillips , James Duncan
Title: "Jefferson's 'Wicked Tyrannical Embargo."

Publication: New England Quarterly
Volume: 18
Date: (1945)
Pages: 466-78

Notes: Describes the effects of the Embargo on Salem, Mass. and gives a thorough going Federalist critique of TJ.

Reference: 1890

1891

Name: Phillips , P. Lee
Title: "The Jeffersonian States."

Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 52
Date: (1918)
Pages: 343-44

Notes: Describes a map of the Northwest Territory in 1785 showing names of possible states as given by TJ.

Reference: 1891

1892

Name: Pierce , D. T.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson on Cuba."

Publication: Public Opinion
Volume: 24
Date: (1898)
Pages: 454-55

Notes: Suggests TJ was more interested in keeping European "despotisms" out of America than in annexing Cuba.

Reference: 1892

1893

Name: Plaisted , Thais M.
Title: Thomas Jefferson Parliamentarian: With Annotated Citation Bibliography

Publisher: The Author
City: Los Angeles
Date: 1978
Pages: pp. 47

Notes: Earlier edition in 1974, not seen. A note on sources for TJ's Manual of Parliamentary Practice and identification of the abbreviated citations.

Reference: 1893

1894

Name: Pole , J. R.
Title: "Elective Despotism and Other Perils: Jefferson and Madison on the Shortcomings of the Constitution of 1776"

Publication: Political ins of the American Republic
Publisher: Macmillan/St. Martin's Press
City: London/New York
Date: 1966
Pages: 296-304

Notes: Contends TJ's guiding principle was respect for will of the people, despite wavering in the direction of more orthodox Whig "persona and property" doctrine to which Madison was closer.

Reference: 1894

1895

Name: Pole , J. R.
Title: "The Meanings of a Self-Evident Truth"

Publication: The Pursuit of Equality in American History
Publisher: Univ. of California Press
City: Berkeley
Date: 1978
Pages: 51-58

Notes: Claims TJ's moral universalism as expressed in the phrase "all men are created equal" was "a vulnerable instrument of revolutionary policy;" being too easy to take literally, it was later turned against itself.

Reference: 1895

1896

Name: Pole , J. R.
Title: "Personifications of the American FXSuture: Hamilton and Jefferson"

Publication: Foundation of American Independence 1763-1815
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Date: 1972
Pages: 201-11

Notes: Conventional sketch.

Reference: 1896

1897

Name: Pollard , James E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The Presidents and the Press
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1947
Pages: 52-95

Notes: "Despite the buffeting he had suffered at the hands of the press, Jefferson carried to his grave his deep-rooted belief in the necessity for freedom of expression in a democracy."

Reference: 1897

1898

Name: Poole , William Frederick
Title: "Dr. Cutler and the Ordinance of 1787."

Publication: North American Review
Volume: 122
Date: (1876)
Pages: 235-39

Notes: TJ not the author of the Ordinance of 1787, although in 1784 he did bring forward the anti-slavery provision in the act of 1784.

Reference: 1898

1899

Name: Pound Ezra
Title: Jefferson And/or Mussolini: L'Idea Statale. Facism as I Have Seen It.

Publisher: Stanley Nott
City: London
Date: 1935
Pages: pp. 128

Notes: Also New York: Liveright, 1936. pp. xi, 128. An attempt to establish the fundamental likenesses of TJ and Mussolini; a bit of Poundian special pleading that has convinced no one. American edition contains an additional letter from Pound.

Reference: 1899

1900

Name: Powell , Burt E.
Title: "Jefferson and the Consular Service."

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 21
Date: (1906)
Pages: 626-38

Notes: TJ more than any other was the creator and organizer of our consular system; he concluded the consular convention with France and as Secretary of State set up the consular service which was recognized by the act of 1792.

Reference: 1900

1901

Name: Powers , Fred Perry
Title: Jefferson and Jackson on Present Problems

Publisher: Present Problems Publ. Co.
City: New York
Date: 1897
Pages: pp. 16

Notes: On the "money problem," the tariff, and civil service.

Reference: 1901

1902

Name: Prager , Frank D.
Title: "Trends and Developments in American Patent Law from Jefferson to Clifford."

Publication: American Journal of Legal History
Volume: 6
Date: (1962)
Pages: 45-62

Notes: pp. 45-48 give a succinct account of TJ's handling of the patent office.

Reference: 1902

1903

Name: Price , John W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Statute of Religious Freedom."

Publication: Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings
Volume: 42
Date: 1931
Pages: 245-57

Notes: Focus is on historical background rather than on the Act or its passage per se.

Reference: 1903

1904

Name: Price , William Jennings
Title: "'The Characteristic Bent of a Lawyer' in Jefferson."

Publication: Georgetown Law Journal
Volume: 16
Date: (1927)
Pages: 41-54

Notes: Discusses the Commonplace Book as evidence of TJ's assiduous study of law and looks at his diplomatic work as an application of it.

Reference: 1904

1905

Name: Prince , Carl E.
Title: "The Passing of the Aristocrats: Jefferson's Removal of the Federalists, 1801-1805."

Publication: Journal of American History
Volume: 57
Date: (1970)
Pages: 563-75

Notes: TJ's "patronage policy during his first term was decisive as it was thoroughly partisan."

Reference: 1905

1906

Name: Proctor , L. B.
Title: "Jefferson and Chief Justice Marshall."

Publication: Albany Law Journal
Volume: 44
Date: (1891)
Pages: 342-43

Notes: TJ's contempt of Marshalrs opinions; claims that Marshalrs associate justices usually agreed with him.

Reference: 1906

1907

Name: Proctor , L. B.
Title: "Jefferson and Marshall. Historic Collision Between the Executive and the Judiciary."

Publication: Albany Law Journal
Volume: 59
Date: (1899)
Pages: 289-93

Notes: Brief account of Marbury v. Madison and the Burr trial.

Reference: 1907

1908

Name: Prufer , Julius P.
Title: "The Franchise in Virginia from Jefferson Through the Convention of 1829."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 7
Date: (1927)
Pages: 255-70; 8(1928), 17-32

Notes: From 1769 on TJ was "progressively more democratic in his views."

Reference: 1908

1909

Name: Pulley , Judith Ross
Title: "Thomas Jefferson at the Court of Versailles: An American Philosophe and the Coming of the French Revolution."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1966
Pages: pp. 340

Notes: Although TJ's democratic principles made him sympathetic to the revolutionary movement, his reactions were more frequently governed by practical considerations pertaining to the welfare of the French people and the interests of the U.S. DAI 27/08A, p. 2485.

Reference: 1909

1910

Name: Putnam Samuel
Title: "Jefferson and the Young Brazilians in France."

Publication: Science and Society
Volume: 10
Date: 1946
Pages: 185-92

Notes: Good account of TJ's influence on the Minas Gerais conspirators and of his meeting in Nimes with Jose Joaquim de Maia.

Reference: 1910

1911

Name: Quarles Benjamin
Title: "Antebellum Free Blacks and the Spirit of '76."

Publication: Journal of Negro History
Volume: 61
Date: (1976)
Pages: 229-42

Notes: Discusses criticism of the Declaration of Independence and by association of TJ made by black abolitionists.

Reference: 1911

1912

Name: Quincy , Josiah Phillips
Title: "The Louisiana Purchase, and the Appeal to Posterity."

Publication: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Volume: 2nd ser. 18
Date: (1903)
Pages: 48-59

Notes: Defense of Josiah Quincy's objections to the Purchase; TJ established a dangerous precedent in being unfaithful to the Constitution, opening the way to imperialistic acquisitions and the extension of slavery. Also rpt. separately.

Reference: 1912

1913

Name: Anonymous none
Title: The Race Problem. Jefferson's Prophecies

Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d
Pages: pp. 16

Notes: Racist tract calling for repeal of the 14th and 15th amendments and appealing to the authority of TJ.

Reference: 1913

1914

Name: Randall J.G.
Title: George Washington and Entangling Alliances

Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 30
Date: 1931
Pages: 221-29

Notes: The phrase is in fact TJ's and fit his conception of foreign policy, even though Washington gets credit.

Reference: 1914

1915

Name: Randolph , Sarah N.
Title: The Kentucky Resolutions in a New Light

Publication: Nation
Volume: 44
Date: 1887
Pages: 382-84

Notes: Role of TJ in promoting the Kentucky Resolutions by way of meetings with Wilson Cary Nicholas and the Breckinridges.

Reference: 1915

1916

Name: Renault Raoul
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada

Publication: North American Notes and Queries
Volume: 1
Date: 1901
Pages: 201-09,233-44

Notes: After TJ lamented the burning of Washington, Rev. John Strachan of Upper cnada replied with an open letter of Canadian grievances; prints Strachan's letter.

Reference: 1916

1917

Name: Anonymous none
Title: Celebration of Jefferson's Birthday in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 1859

Publisher: Buell & Blanchard
City: Washington
Date: 1859
Pages: pp.16

Notes: The young Republican Party (GOP) tries to capture TJ as one of its own; prints speeches by Francis P. Blair and Daniel R. Goodloe, emphasizing TJ's belief in the importance of gradual elimination of slavery.

Reference: 1917

1918

Name: Rhinesmith William Donald
Title: Joseph Dennie, Critic of Jeffersonian Democracy

Publication: Essays in History
Volume: 7
Date: 1962
Pages: 37-52

Notes: Focus on Dennie, High Federalist editor of The Port Folio, 1801-1809.

Reference: 1918

1919

Name: Rhodes , Irwin S.
Title: What Really Happened to the Jefferson Subpoenas

Publication: American Bar Association Journal
Volume: 60
Date: 1974
Pages: 52-54

Notes: Contends TJ's "claim to an exclusive exercise of executive privilege. . . was upheld by Chief Justice Marshall," and courts in the Watergate case seem to be denying Marshall's ruling. See, however, item #1394.

Reference: 1919

1920

Name: Rice , Philip A., II
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Balance of Power Principle, 1783-1793

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: California State Univ.
City: Fullerton
Date: 1969
Pages: none given

Reference: 1920

1921

Name: Rich , Bennet Milton
Title: The Embargo Troubles

Publication: The Presidents and Civil Disorder
Publisher: The Brookings Institution
City: Washington
Date: 1941
Pages: 31-37

Notes: TJ's actions at times went beyond the letter of the law, but given the circumstances his response to resistance to the Embargo was creditable.

Reference: 1921

1922

Name: Ridpath , John Clark
Title: "Jeffersonian Democracy."

Publication: The Jeffersonian Democrat
Volume: 2
Date: (1899)
Pages: 438-44

Notes: Campaign rhetoric.

Reference: 1922

1923

Name: Riethmiller Christopher James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries; or, The Rise of the American Constitution
Publisher: Bell and Daldy
City: London
Date: 1864
Pages: 269-302

Notes: Noble, high-minded Hamilton opposed by TJ, the crafty, sans-culotte.

Reference: 1923

1924

Name: Risjord , Norman K.
Title: "The Compromise of 1790: New Evidence on the Dinner Table Bargain."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 33
Date: (1976)
Pages: 309-14

Notes: TJ's dinner invitation to Tench Coxe and James Madison, dated June 6, 1790, indicates negotiations over compromise concerning the assumption of state debts and location of the national capital were more complex than TJ later suggested in the Anas.

Reference: 1924

1925

Name: Risjord , Norman K.
Title: "A New Meaning for Jefferson's Democracy."

Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 1
Date: (1973)
Pages: 88-95

Notes: Review essay on Ellis, The Jeffersonian Crisis.

Reference: 1925

1926

Name: Ritcheson , Charles R.
Title: "Collision with Secretary Jefferson"

Publication: Aftermath of Revolution: British Policy Toward the United States 1783-1795
Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ. Press
City: Dallas
Date: 1969
Pages: 231-42

Notes: Confrontation of TJ and George Hammond, British minister.

Reference: 1926

1927

Name: Robertson , Walter S.
Title: "Report to the Founder on Foreign Affairs."

Publication: U.S. Department of State Bulletin
Volume: 36
Date: (1957)
Pages: 682-87

Notes: Compares TJ's foreign policy with that of today.

Reference: 1927

1928

Name: Robinson , Donald L.
Title: Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
City: New York
Date: 1971
Pages: 81-97

Notes: Characterizes TJ as the "only political leader of consequence in Revolutionary America who moved openly against Negro slavery," mostly on the basis of his rejected passage in the Declaration.

Reference: 1928

1929

Name: Roche , George Charles, III.
Title: "The Real American Revolution."

Publication: Freeman
Volume: 23
Date: (1973)
Pages: 395-98

Notes: The founders had two ideas: "the Tom Jefferson-limited government idea and the Adam Smith-free enterprise idea."

Reference: 1929

1930

Name: Rogers , Robert, Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Leadership of the Republican Party, January, 1797 to June, 1798."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of California
City: Berkeley
Date: 1953
Pages: none given

Reference: 1930

1931

Name: Rooney , William E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the New Orleans Marine Hospital."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 22
Date: (1956)
Pages: 167-82

Notes: Describes first years of Marine Hospital Service in New Orleans; TJ's "efforts to provide medical care for seamen in an unhealthy port ... were typical of his humanitarianism."

Reference: 1931

1932

Name: Roosevelt , Franklin D.
Title: "We Seek Peace—Enduring Peace."

Publication: Vital Speeches
Volume: 9
Date: (1945)
Pages: 423-24

Notes: Speech FDR wrote the night before he died, to be delivered over radio on TJ's birthday.

Reference: 1932

1933

Name: Rose , U. M.
Title: "The Case Between Jefferson and Marshall."

Publication: Colorado Bar Association Reports
Volume: 4
Date: (1902)
Pages: 123-56

Notes: Surveys the whole TJ-Marshall relationship, sympathetically to each; claims TJ was in the wrong with Marshall, but a great man for all that.

Reference: 1933

1934

Name: Rosenberg Arthur
Title: "Robespierre and Jefferson"

Publication: Democracy and Socialism, A Contribution to the Political History of the Past 150 Years
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York
Date: 1939
Pages: 10-21

Notes: Both Robespierre's and TJ's revolutions failed because of the "bourgeois-capitalistic spirit of the age" and because of the leaders' failure to understand "the actual social processes of their time."

Reference: 1934

1935

Name: Rostow , Eugene Victor
Title: The Consent of the Governed

Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1968
Pages: pp. 27

Notes: TJ's case for revolution does not depend on his 18th-century natural law doctrine but on a more general theory about the nature of a free political community. Laws are tested by individuals, e.g. Thoreau, but when unable to persuade his fellow citizens of his rightness, a dissenter must follow the will of society. Vietnam War-era statement.

Reference: 1935

1936

Name: Roth , George L.
Title: "Verse Satire on 'Faction,' 1790-1815."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 17
Date: (1960)
Pages: 473-85

Notes: Includes account of Federalist satire aimed at TJ by Thomas Fessenden and others.

Reference: 1936

1937

Name: Rowland , Kate Mason
Title: "A Lost Paper of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 1
Date: (1892)
Pages: 34-45

Notes: Prints a draft of TJ's proposed constitution of 1776 for Virginia; this document does not, however, invalidate the role of George Mason.

Reference: 1937

1938

Name: Royster Charles
Title: "A Battle of Memoirs; Light-Horse Harry Lee and Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 31
Date: 1981
Pages: 112-27

Notes: Excerpted from the authors's Light-Horse Harry Lee, New York: Knopf, 1981. Covers conflicting memories of the British invasion of Virginia.

Reference: 1938

1939

Name: Rutland , Robert A.
Title: "The Jeffersonian Genesis"

Publication: The Democrats from Jefferson to Carter
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ. Press
City: Baton Rouge
Date: 1979
Pages: 1-28

Notes: Brief account of the building of the Democratic party during TJ's presidency.

Reference: 1939

1940

Name: Saint Percy
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Government by Party."

Publication: Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Volume: 8
Date: (1925)
Pages: 41-51

Notes: TJ was unjust and unreasonable in disliking John Marshall and Patrick Henry, but he helped to establish "a government which requires organized self-restraint to perpetuate it," so we should ignore his rhapsodies and unrealities about liberty.

Reference: 1940

1941

Name: Salstrom P.
Title: "Individualism to Community Land."

Publication: Green Revolution
Volume: 32
Date: 1975
Pages: 1

Reference: 1941

1942

Name: Sawvel , Franklin B.
Title: "Introduction"

Publication: The Complete Anas of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Round Table Press
City: New York
Date: 1902
Pages: none given

Notes: Describes the background of the Anas, points out serious problems in editions relying on the H. A. Washington edition of 1854.

Reference: 1942

1943

Name: Scanlon , James E.
Title: "A Sudden Conceit: Jefferson and the Louisiana Government Bill of 1804."

Publication: Louisiana History
Volume: 9
Date: (1968)
Pages: 139-62

Notes: TJ composed the bill establishing a government for Louisiana, but John Breckinridge of Kentucky introduced it and the authorship was kept secret. Describes the debate on the bill.

Reference: 1943

1944

Name: Schachner Nathan
Title: "Jefferson: A Slippery Politician."

Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 46
Date: (1939)
Pages: 49-55

Notes: Politicians of every stripe quote him because "Jefferson was the most inconsistent of men."

Reference: 1944

1945

Name: Schapsmeier Edward L. and Frederick H.
Title: "The Hamilton-Jefferson Confrontation: Origins of the American Political System."

Publication: Social Sciences
Volume: 46
Date: (1971)
Pages: 139-47

Notes: Argues that "A synthesis of ideas took place along with a readiness to compromise which gave birth to a nonideologically oriented political system."

Reference: 1945

1946

Name: Schellenburg , T. R.
Title: "Jeffersonian Origins of the Monroe Doctrine."

Publication: Hispanic American Historical Review
Volume: 14
Date: (1934)
Pages: 1-31

Notes: As early as August 1822 TJ began advocating an American system; influenced by the writings of the Abbe Pradt, he developed the idea in letters with the Abbe Correa and James Monroe. TJ "more than any other individual was responsible for the basic doctrine of Monroe's message of 1823."

Reference: 1946

1947

Name: Scherr Arthur
Title: "The 'Republican Experiment' and the Election of 1796 in Virginia."

Publication: West Virginia History
Volume: 37
Date: (1976)
Pages: 89-108

Notes: Members of each party in Virginia were aware of the importance of this election for the success of the democratic process; Virginians' pride in national history overcame sectional differences when Adams won out over TJ.

Reference: 1947

1948

Name: Schouler James
Title: "First Administration of Thomas Jefferson" and "Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution. Vol. II. 1801-1817
Publisher: Dodd Mead
City: New York
Date: 1882
Pages: 1-204

Notes: Balanced view of TJ and his administration; conceded the usual flaws, no "military instinct," dissimulation, etc., he is still a philosophic statesman who had some great successes as president and at least one failure (the Embargo). Suggests that had he made a tour of New England while president, much of the mutual distrust might have subsided.

Reference: 1948

1949

Name: Schulte , Nordholt J. W.
Title: "De Onafhankelijkheidsverklaring: Droom of Richtsnoer."

Publication: Kleio
Volume: 17
Date: (1976)
Pages: 1071-84

Notes: "The Declaration of Independence: Dream or Guidepost." Discusses Declaration and TJ's role, concluding that it remains a guide for most Americans.

Reference: 1949

1950

Name: Schurman , Jacob G.
Title: "Jefferson and the Public Policies of Today."

Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 4
Date: (1911)
Pages: 219-36

Reference: 1950

1951

Name: Schwartz Bernard
Title: "Jefferson-Madison Correspondence"

Publication: The Great Rights of Mankind: A History of the American Bill of the American Bill of Rights
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1977
Pages: 115-18

Notes: Inconclusive comments on the letters on proposed Bill of Rights.

Reference: 1951

1952

Name: Scott , William B.
Title: In Pursuit of Happiness: American Conceptions of Property from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Publisher: Indiana Univ. Press
City: Bloomington
Date: 1977
Pages: pp. xi, 244

Notes: TJ discussed passim, but not especially perceptively; conclusion is titled "The Lingering World of Thomas Jefferson."

Reference: 1952

1953

Name: Scruggs , J. H., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Views of Democracy and the Negro."

Publication: Alabama Historical Quarterly
Volume: 8
Date: 1946
Pages: 95-102

Notes: Commenting, "Democracy is not a gift" but a "development of personality," quotes from Query XIV in Notes on the differences between black and white races.

Reference: 1953

1954

Name: Sealove Sandra
Title: "The Founding Fathers as Seen by the Marques de Casa-Irujo."

Publication: The Americas
Volume: 20
Date: (1963)
Pages: 37-42

Notes: Irujo became Spanish ambassador to the U.S. in 1796 and described TJ and others in letters now in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.

Reference: 1954

1955

Name: Sears , Louis M.
Title: "British Industry and the Embargo."

Publication: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Volume: 34
Date: (1919)
Pages: 88-113

Notes: Contends that the Embargo worked real hardships on British industry but that America lacked resolution to pursue the experiment.

Reference: 1955

1956

Name: Sears , Louis Martin
Title: "Jefferson and the Embargo."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago
City: Chicago
Date: 1922
Pages: none given

Notes: See next item.

Reference: 1956

1957

Name: Sears , Louis M.
Title: Jefferson and the Embargo

Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
City: Durham
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. ix, 340

Notes: "... in urging the embargo Jefferson was pursuing not a hasty opportunism, but rather the logic of his entire philosophy of life," i.e. his essentially pacific theories, and "the exigencies of the situation revealed Jefferson as an administrator of a high order."

Reference: 1957

1958

Name: Selden , Richard Ely
Title: Criticism on the Declaration of Independence as a Literary Document. By Mon Droit

Publisher: For Sale at the News Offices
City: New York
Date: 1846
Pages: pp. 44

Notes: Charges that "its author had no distinct ideas on the subject he was writing about; or if he had, he possessed no faith in the truth of his assertions." Traces the effect of these "sophisms" on the South and on the "national genius."

Reference: 1958

1959

Name: Semmes , Thomas, Jr.
Title: Oration Delivered at the Request of the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia, on the Anniversary of the Birth-Day of Thomas Jefferson, April 13, 1833, in the Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, Va.

Publisher: Virginia Advocate Office
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1833
Pages: pp. 15

Notes: Sketches TJ's career, ends in an anti-"consolidation" states rights argument.

Reference: 1959

1960

Name: Sensabaugh George F.
Title: "Jefferson's Use of Milton in the Ecclesiastical Controversies of 1776."

Publication: American Literature
Volume: 26
Date: (1955)
Pages: 552-59

Notes: TJ read Milton's Of Reformation in Engla>23-25

Notes: Sketch on TJ as minister to France, emphasizing his work as the equivalent of a modern public affairs officer.

Reference: 1961

1962
Name: Shackelford George Green, ed.
Title: "Benedict Arnold in Richmond, January 1781: His Proposal Concerning Prize Goods."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 60
Date: (1952)
Pages: 591-99

Notes: Account of Arnold's raid and TJ's response.

Reference: 1962

1963
Name: Shannon , Joseph B.
Title: A Revival of the Doctrines of Jefferson Necessar to Check the Rising Tides of Hamiltonian Privilege

Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1932
Pages: pp: 24

Reference: 1963

1964
Name: Shannon , Joseph B.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, The Advocate of Truth, Freedom and Equality. Public Speeches of Joseph B. Shannon Touching upon Unfamiliar Phases of the Life and Teachings of The Great American Statesman

Publisher: Regular Democratic Club
City: Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1930
Pages: pp. 32

Notes: TJ used to attack the "follies of the millionaires."

Reference: 1964

1965
Name: Sharswood George
Title: An Address Upon the Rights of the States, Delivered Before the State Rights Association of Pennsylvania, and a Public Meeting of Citizens, on the 14th of April, 1834, at the Commissioner's Hall in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia

Publisher: J. Harding
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1834
Pages: pp. 8

Reference: 1965

1966
Name: Shaw Albert
Title: "A Notable Anniversary."

Publication: The American Monthly Review of Reviews
Volume: 27
Date: (1903)
Pages: 515-20

Notes: Louisiana Purchase and TJ's part in it.

Reference: 1966

1967
Name: Shaw Albert
Title: "Political Parties in Perspective."

Publication: Review of Reviews
Volume: 94
Date: 1936
Pages: 15-18

Notes: Brief account of the rise of the party system behind TJ and Hamilton; criticizes Claude Bowers for partisanship.

Reference: 1967

1968
Name: Sheehan , Bernard W
Title: Seeds of Extinction; Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian

Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina Press
City: Chapel Hi
Date: 1973
Pages: pp. xii, 301

Notes: TJ wished to assimilate Indians into white society, but since he and those who shared his ideas tended to conceptualize the Indians abstractly, they failed to realize the profoundly destructive effects this would have for the Indians. Best book on TJ's Indian policy.

Reference: 1968

1969
Name: Shimakawa Masashi
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Indian Problem."

Publication: Amerika Kenkyu/American Review
Volume: 12
Date: (1978)
Pages: 214-15

Notes: In Japanese; abstract in English.

Reference: 1969

1970
Name: Shiryaev , B. A.
Title: "Tomas Dzhefferson i Amerikanskaia Konstitutsiia."

Publication: Vestnik Leningradskogo U.: Seriia Istorii lazyka i Literatury
Date: 1977
Pages: 49-55

Notes: TJ recognized some of the reasons for antidemocratic tendencies in the constitutional convention and, while seeing some good points in the Constitution, insisted on a Bill of Rights.

Reference: 1970

1971
Name: Shortridge , George D.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson—The Declaration of Independence and Freedom."

Publication: DeBow's Review
Volume: 26
Date: (1859)
Pages: 547-59

Notes: "Mr. Jefferson's doctrine is the dream of an enthusiast or visionary," and does not justify abolition.

Reference: 1971

1972
Name: Showalter , William Joseph
Title: "Jefferson as President."

Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 345-49

Notes: Compares TJ to other presidents, particularly Wilson.

Reference: 1972

1973
Name: Shulim , Joseph I.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Views Napoleon."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 60
Date: (1952)
Pages: 288-304

Notes: TJ's opinions of Napoleon varied with circumstances, but he ultimately saw him as "the author of more misery and suffering to the world than any being who has ever lived before him."

Reference: 1973

1974
Name: Shurr , Georgia Hooks
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution."

Publication: American Society Legion of Honor Magazine
Volume: 59
Date: 1979\80
Pages: 161-82

Notes: Competent account from printed sources; claims the French Revolution was partly of TJ's making.

Reference: 1974

1975
Name: Sigaud , Louis A.
Title: "The Tie That Severed."

Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 31
Date: (1949)
Pages: 6-22

Notes: Aaron Burr innocent of intriguing to become President in 1800, but TJ thought he did and this explains his "relentless animus" toward Burr.

Reference: 1975

1976
Name: Sigaud , Louis A.
Title: "Tried and Not Found Wanting."

Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 31
Date: (1950)
Pages: 225-52

Notes: On TJ's "persecution" of Burr at his trial in 1807.

Reference: 1976

1977
Name: Simpson , Joseph Bernard
Title: Hamiltonism vs. Jeffersonism. A Refutation of the Popular Calumnies Against Alexander Hamilton

Publisher: Thomas J. Howarth & Co.
City: Chester, Ill.
Date: 1904
Pages: pp. 64

Notes: The usual Hamiltonian's case against TJ.

Reference: 1977

1978
Name: Sisson Daniel
Title: The American Revolution of 1800

Publisher: Knopf
City: New York
Date: 1974
Pages: pp.xvii,468

Notes: Examination of the circumstances and significance of TJ's coming to power in 1800. Argues that he conceived a "strategy that will enable the people to negate the present or existing system. By a conversion of military to peaceful means, Jefferson produced a strategy and an organization whose means could be identified in spirit and principle with the purposes of the revolution. It enabled the people to identify with the emerging democratic sentiment that was a 'second city' within the body politic.... the capacity of the Jeffersonians to combine a revolutionary ideology and a dynamic political organization culminated in the first modern theory of a politics of revolution." Suggestive study.

Reference: 1978

1979
Name: Skeen Carl
Title: Jefferson and the West, 1798-1808

Publisher: Anthony Wayne Parkway Board/Ohio State Museum
City: Columbus, Ohio
Date: 1960
Pages: pp. 54

Notes: Originally an M.A. thesis at Ohio State Univ.; discusses TJ's policies on Western expansion while president, with emphasis on the old Northwest. Concludes that "The West, in a sense, began with Jefferson."

Reference: 1979

1980
Name: Skolnik , Richard, comp.
Title: 1803: Jefferson's Decision, The United States Purchases Louisiana

Publisher: Chelsea House
City: New York
Date: 1969
Pages: pp. xix, 194

Notes: Collection of primary material for undergraduates; introduction and notes.

Reference: 1980

1981
Name: Sloane , William M.
Title: "World Aspects of the Louisiana Purchase."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 8
Date: (1904)
Pages: 507-21

Notes: TJ forced into the Purchase because of, among other reasons, a dangerous political situation at home with the West and South possibly ready to go over to the Federalists. Both the Federalists and the Republicans in the subsequent squabble over constitutionality tacitly abandoned the strict constructionist view of powers delegated to Congress.

Reference: 1981

1982
Name: Small , Norman J.
Title: Some Presidential Interpretations of the Presidency

Publication: Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies in Historical and Political Science
Volume: Series 50, no. 2.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1932
Pages: pp. 208

Notes: Organized thematically; compares opinions of Washington, TJ, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, and Wilson.

Reference: 1982

1983
Name: Smelser Marshall
Title: "The Glorious Fourth—or, Glorious Second? or Eighth?"

Publication: History Teacher
Volume: 3
Date: 1970
Pages: 25-30

Reference: 1983

1984
Name: Smith , Charles Emory
Title: "The Louisiana Purchase"

Publication: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb and Bergh
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
City: Washington
Date: 1903
Pages: 3:i-vii

Reference: 1984

1985
Name: Smith Gaddis
Title: "The U.S. vs. International Terrorists, A Chapter from Our Past."

Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 28
Date: 1977
Pages: 37-43

Notes: TJ's efforts to put down the Barbary pirates are not an adequate model for dealing with present-day terrorist highjackers.

Reference: 1985

1986
Name: Smith , Glenn Curtis
Title: "Notes on Thomas Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British Americans."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 59
Date: (1951)
Pages: 494-98

Notes: Uncritical description and brief account of the historical context.

Reference: 1986

1987
Name: Smith , James Morton
Title: Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties

Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press
City: Ithaca
Date: 1956
Pages: pp. xv, 464

Notes: The definitive book on the subject, focusing particularly on the struggles in the press. TJ mentioned throughout, more as an object of political attention than as an active participant in this phase of the resistance to the Alien and Sedition Laws.

Reference: 1987

1988
Name: Smith , James Morton
Title: "The Grass Roots Origins of the Kentucky Resolutions."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 27
Date: (1970)
Pages: 221-245

Notes: Argues for closer examination of events in Kentucky prior to the Resolutions as a balance to historians' concentration on TJ's involvement as theoretician and author.

Reference: 1988

1989
Name: Smith , Robert Harold
Title: "Albert Gallatin and American Fiscal Policy during Jefferson's First Administration."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Syracuse Univ.
City: Syracuse
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. 276

Notes: Discusses Gallatin's role in trying to achieve the three main financial goals of TJ's administration, prompt retirement of the federal debt, reduction of taxation, and economy in government. Although TJ and Madison had opposed the First Bank of the United States, under Gallatin's influence the Bank was strengthened and expanded. DAI 14/09, p. 1325.

Reference: 1989

1990
Name: Smith , Sherwin D.
Title: "Forty-two Campaigns Ago."

Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1964
Pages: 82-88

Notes: On TJ, John Adams, and America's "first campaign" in 1796.

Reference: 1990

1991
Name: Smith , William Raymond
Title: "The Leader of the Consensus"

Publication: The Rhetoric of American Politics
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing
City: Westport, Conn.
Date: 1969
Pages: 125-42

Notes: Rhetorical analysis of TJ's first inaugural speech.

Reference: 1991

1992
Name: Soto Paz Rafael
Title: No es de Jefferson La Declaracion de Independencia

Publisher: Editorial Lex
City: Havana
Date: 1947
Pages: pp. 32

Notes: Argues for Paine's authorship.

Reference: 1992

1993
Name: Spencer , Donald S.
Title: "Appeals to the People: The Later Genet Affair."

Publication: New York Historical Society Quarterly
Volume: 54
Date: (1970)
Pages: 241-67

Notes: TJ's role in the excitement about Genet's threat to appeal over Washington's head to the people. His letter demanding Genet's recall was in fact a demand for a reevaluation of French policy toward the United States and an attempt to protect American neutrality.

Reference: 1993

1994
Name: Spiker , Franklin A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Member of the Continental congress."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1934
Pages: pp. 93

Reference: 1994

1995
Name: Spiro , Jeffery H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of American Neutrality."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Queens College (CUNY)
Date: 1975
Pages: none given

Reference: 1995

1996
Name: Spivak Burton
Title: "Jefferson, England, and the Emba Revolution

Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1979
Pages: pp. Xiii, 250

Notes: Examines TJ's foreign policy toward England and his concern for the growth in the United States of English political forms, social ideas, and commercial development. Contends that "the commercial goals of Jefferson's English diplomacy encouraged the very kind of national economic development that he found so incompatible with his republican dreams."

Reference: 1997

1998
Name: Anonymous none
Title: "Sporadic Attacks on the Supreme Court."

Publication: Congressional Digest
Volume: 16
Date: 1937
Pages: 70-73

Notes: Covers TJ's attacks on the court and Marbury vs. Madison as a general background for FDR's difficulties with the court.

Reference: 1998

1999
Name: Sprague Marshall
Title: So Vast So Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase

Publisher: Little Brown
City: Boston
Date: 1974
Pages: pp. xix, 396

Notes: Discovery and eventual acquisition of the Louisiana Territory. A popular account which turns TJ into a Westerner of the spirit and imagination.

Reference: 1999

2000
Name: Sprague , Stuart Seely
Title: "Jefferson, Kentucky and the Closing of the Port of New Orleans, 1802-1803."

Publication: Kentucky Historical Society Register
Volume: 70
Date: (1972)
Pages: 312-17

Notes: "Rather than relaxing in 1802-1803, President Jefferson made strenuous efforts to keep Kentucky from exploding" into rash military action as a response to the French takeover of New Orleans.

Reference: 2000

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