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).
Electronic version published by the Electronic Text
Center,
University of Virginia Library
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Name: Backus , E. Burdette
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Pioneer of Tomorrow's Religion
Publisher: All Souls Unitarian Church
City: Indianapolis
Date: 1943
Pages: pp. 17
Notes: "... we must have a religion which believes in men as Jefferson believed in them."
Reference: 2121
Name: Baeumer , Max L.
Title: "Simplicity and Grandeur: Winckelmann, French Classicism, and Jefferson."
Publication: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Volume: 7
Date: (1978)
Pages: 63-78
Notes: Influence of Winckelmann and his definition of classical beauty as "noble simplicity and quiet grandeur" on TJ. He knew Winckelmann's Geschicte der Kunst das Althertums and also his friend Charles-Louis Clerisseau.
Reference: 2548
Name: Bagby , George W.
Title: "Waifs from Monticello."
Publication: Lippincott's Magazine.
Volume: 4
Date: 1869
Pages: 205-07
Notes: Describes a few leaves from one of TJ's account books, claiming they illustrate his "particularity in manners of business" and his considerate attention to his slaves.
Reference: 77
Name: Bailey , Liberty Hyde
Title: "Monticello. The Country Seat of Thomas Jefferson. Present-Day Appearance of One of the Finest of the Estates of the Last Century."
Publication: Country Life in America
Volume: 2
Date: (1902)
Pages: 56-60
Notes: Sketch with interesting photographic illustrations.
Reference: 2549
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
Name: Bailey , Thomas A.
Title: "Jefferson and Madisonian Democracy"
Publication: Voices of America: The Nation's Story in Slogans, Sayings, and Songs.
Publisher: Free Press
City: New York
Date: 1976
Pages: 39-50
Notes: Discusses slogans and songs associated with TJ during the election of 1800 and the subsequent eight years.
Reference: 78
Name: Bailyn , Bernard
Title: "Boyd's Jefferson: Notes for a Sketch."
Publication: New England Quarterly
Volume: 33
Date: 1960
Pages: 380-401
Notes: Review essay on the first 15 volumes of The Papers which "contain more than enough material for a re-estimation," particularly in the volumes covering his time abroad. Two controlling groups of traits emerge: a "conventionality of mind and behavior" in the face of European culture and society, but "in his direct, tactical involvement with public affairs, he was as unconventional, as imaginative, resourceful, and tough as the best, or worst, of Old World politicians."
Reference: 79
Name: Baird , W.
Title: "The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences. By his Great-grandaughter, Sarah N. Randolph."
Publication: Southern Magazine
Volume: 10
Date: 1872
Pages: 495-502
Notes: Review essay using the occasion to praise TJ for his efforts to resist the Federal usurpation of state's powers which had produced the recent difficulties.
Reference: 80
Name: Bakeless , John
Title: Lewis &Clark: Partners in Discovery.
Publisher: Morrow
City: New York
Date: 1947
Pages: pp. xii, 498
Notes: Chapters 1, 6, and 7 deal with TJ's appointment of Lewis as his secretary and with the purchase of Louisiana.
Reference: 81
Name: Bakeless , John and Catherine
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Signers of the Declaration
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1969
Pages: 71-79
Notes: Superficial.
Reference: 82
Name: Baker , Gordon E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson on Academic Freedom."
Publication: AAUP Bulletin
Volume: 39
Date: (1953)
Pages: 377-87
Notes: "His insistence on freedom of inquiry" is "equalled in eloquence by few;" yet at least once he "abandoned his high principles" by demanding that the University of Virginia's law professor be "uninfected with Federalist principles."
Reference: 2122
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
Name: Banks , Louis Albert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Story of the Hall of Fame, Including the Lives and Portraits of the Elect and of Those Who Barely Missed Election.
Publisher: The Christian Herald
City: New York
Date: 1902
Pages: 106-18
Reference: 84
Name: Banks , Louis Albert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Youth of Famous Americans
Publisher: Eaton and Mains
City: New York
Date: 1902
Pages: 41-47
Reference: 85
Name: Banks , Louis Albert, ed.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Capital Stories about Famous Americans.
Publisher: The Christian Herald
City: New York
Date: 1905
Pages: 319-28
Notes: Anecdotes.
Reference: 83
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
Name: Bannon , Henry
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Naturalist."
Publication: Forest and Stream
Volume: 90
Date: (1920)
Pages: 548-49
Notes: General note.
Reference: 2550
Name: Bar , Max
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, eine Entwicklungsgeschichte seiner demokratischen Ideen."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: University of Erlangen
Date: 1951
Pages: none given
Reference: 2123
Name: Barkley , Alben W.
Title: "This is the Fourth of July; Jefferson Still Lives.
Publication: Vital Speeches
Volume: 9
Date: 1943
Pages: 628-31
Notes: Jefferson Day speech at the Univ. of Virginia, June 4, 1943.
Reference: 86
Name: Barlieb , Calvin
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Conception of Democracy."
Publication: School and Society
Volume: 59
Date: (1944)
Pages: 241-43
Notes: General sketch.
Reference: 2124
Name: Barman , Sol.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Madmen and Geniuses: The Vice Presidents of the United States.
Publisher: Follett
City: Chicago
Date: 1974
Pages: 21-25
Notes: Trivial
Reference: 96
Name: Barmore , Ida M.
Title: "Facts Worth Knowing About Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Popular Educator
Volume: 43
Date: (1926)
Pages: 450-51
Reference: 2551
Name: Barnard , Henry?
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: American Journal of Education
Volume: 27
Date: (1877)
Pages: 513-50
Notes: Memoir and survey of TJ's views on education and his work to further it.
Reference: 2552
Name: Barneaud , Charles
Title: "Jefferson et reducation en Virginie."
Publication: Revue International d'Enseignement
Volume: 29
Date: (1895)
Pages: 423-57
Notes: TJ's design for a university prompted reforms in established schools and became the model for the state land grant schools. The University of Virginia has fallen on hard times, however, and does not fulfill its promise. Printed separately, Paris: Armand Colin, 1895. pp. 86.
Reference: 2553
Name: Barnes , Harry Elmer
Title: "Some Reflections on the Possible Service of Analytical Psychology to History."
Publication: Psychoanalytic Review
Volume: 8
Date: 1921
Pages: 22-37
Notes: Contends TJ has "anti-authority" and "inferiority" complexes.
Reference: 88
Name: Barnes , Harry Elmer
Title: The New History and the Social Studies.
Publisher: Century,
City: New York
Date: 1925
Pages: 235-47
Notes: Personalities of Hamilton and TJ discussed as an illustration "of the application of the newer psychology to historical biography." TJ, an introvert in the Jungian mode, was terrified of his father, "a gruff giant with a tremendous temper," and he obtained "considerable of psychic release ... by assaults upon kings." Reworking of material in 88 infra.
Reference: 87
Name: Barnes , Howard A.
Title: "The Idea That Caused a War: Horace Bushnell Versus Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: The Journal of Church and State
Volume: 16
Date: (1974)
Pages: 73-83
Notes: Bushnell's organicism opposed TJ's individualism, and Bushnell believed TJ had made the Civil War inevitable by substituting the social contract for the covenant.
Reference: 2125
Name: Barnwell , John
Title: "Monticello: 1856."
Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 34
Date: (1975)
Pages: 280-85
Notes: Prints a mss. dated May 20, 1856, describing a visit to Monticello; visitors thought the sky room was a ball room.
Reference: 2554
Name: Baron , Sherry
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Scientist as Politician."
Publication: Synthesis
Volume: 3
Date: 1975
Pages: 6-21
Notes: Summarizes the dispute with Buffon and notices its political implications.
Reference: 2555
Name: Barr , Stringfellow
Title: "L'lnfluence Francaise sur Jefferson."
Publication: Le Moniteur Franco-Americain
Volume: 14
Date: 1930
Pages: 13, 17
Reference: 89
Name: Barr , Stringfellow
Title: "'Jefferson's University'."
Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 2
Date: 1935
Pages: 7-8
Notes: Sketch
Reference: 2556
Name: Barre , W. L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Lives of Illustrious Men of America, Distinguished in the Annals of the Republic as Legislators Warriors, and Philosophers.
Publisher: W.A. Clarke
City: Cincinnati
Date: 1859
Pages: 118-68
Notes: Sympathetic sketch.
Reference: 90
Name: Barrett , Clifton Waller
Title: "The Struggle to Create a University."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 49
Date: (1973)
Pages: 494-506
Notes: TJ's difficulties in bringing about the Univ. of Virginia; also printed separately, Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1973. pp. 18.
Reference: 2557
Name: Barrett , Clifton Waller
Title: Thomas Jefferson, The American
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation,
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1979
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Biographical sketch; Independence Day Address.
Reference: 91
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
Name: Barrett , Marvin
Title: Meet Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Date: 1967
Pages: pp. 86
Notes: Juvenile.
Reference: 92
Name: Barry , Joseph
Title: "Jefferson in Paris."
Publication: Saturday Review
Volume: 3
Date: 1976
Pages: 20-22
Notes: TJ as visitor in Paris; derivative.
Reference: 93
Name: Barry , William T.
Title: Speech of William T. Barry, Esq., on the Death of Adams, Jefferson, and Shelby. Delivered in Lexington on Tuesday, Fifteenth August, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Six.
Publisher: John Bradford
City: Lexington, KY
Date: 1826
Pages: pp. 24
Notes: Isaac Shelby died on July 18th; pays particular attention to the deathbed scenes of TJ and Adams.
Reference: 94
Name: Barth , Hans
Title: Monticello Suite, Five Compositions For Piano
Publisher: J. Fischer
City: New York
Date: 1941 Notes: No words.
Reference: 2558
Name: Bartley , Thomas Welles
Title: The Address of T.W. Bartley, Before the Jefferson National Monumental Association. Delivered October 16, 1882.
City: Washington
Date: 1882
Pages: pp.7
Notes: Call for a monument to TJ in Washington, DC
Reference: 95
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
Name: Basso , Hamilton
Title: "Farewell and Hail to Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Mainstream
Publisher: Reynal and Hitchcock
City: New York
Date: 1943
Pages: 23-43
Notes: Unconvincing discussion of TJ as a "Rousseauist."
Reference: 97
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
Name: Bates , Kenneth
Title: "The Eye of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: House and Garden
Volume: 148
Date: 1976
Pages: 32-33, 139
Notes: Report on the National Gallery exhibit.
Reference: 2560
Name: Battle , George Gordon
Title: New York and Jefferson, An Address
Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 11
Notes: Speech at Monticello, cataloguing TJ's links with New York.
Reference: 98
Name: Bauer , Gerald
Title: "The Quest for Religious Freedom in Virginia."
Publication: Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Volume: 41
Date: (1972)
Pages: 83-93
Notes: Account of the passage of the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.
Reference: 2126
Name: Baugh , Albert C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Linguistic Liberal"
Publication: Studies for William A. Read; A Miscellany Presented by Some of His Colleagues and Friends, eds. Nathaniel M. Caffee and Thomas A. Kirby
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
City: University, La.
Date: 1940
Pages: 88-108
Notes: Surveys TJ's interest in Old English and in the history of the language; contends his liberalism consisted of trust in usage rather than grammatic rules and a belief in the continuity of the development of English.
Reference: 2561
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
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
Name: Beach , Curtis
Title: "The Freedom of Religion."
Publication: New Outlook
Volume: 10
Date: 1957
Pages: 19-24
Notes: Fanciful version of TJ's work for religious freedom, complete with imagined dialogue.
Reference: 2127
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
Name: Bean , William B.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Influence on American Medical Education: Some Notes on the Medical School of the University of Virginia."
Publication: Virginia Medical Monthly
Volume: 87
Date: (1960)
Pages: 669-80
Notes: Rambling essay; TJ introduced or fostered among other innovations the first full time clinical teaching in America, conservatism in drugging and bloodletting, and the development of a medical school in a university setting. Considerable attention also to the contributions of Robley Dunglison.
Reference: 2562
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Stamps
Volume: 94
Date: 1956
Pages: 446-48
Notes: Account related to the issue of the 20¢ Monticello postage stamp on April 13, 1956.
Reference: 104
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: Old Pictures of Monticello
Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1957
Pages: pp. 31
Notes: Includes some of TJ's drawings; shows the changing appearance.
Reference: 2565
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Nails."
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History.
Volume: 16
Date: 1958
Pages: 47-52
Notes: On TJ's nail-making business. Technically successful, its accounts were not well managed, and since all due bills were not collected, it probably lost money in its later years.
Reference: 103
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Book-Marks
Publisher: Alderman Library of the Univ. of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1958
Pages: pp. 10
Notes: Issued to commemorate the visit of the Grolier Club to the University and to Monticello.
Reference: 2568
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Silver."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 74
Date: 1958
Pages: 33-36
Notes: Illustrated account of TJ's silver based on account books and letters, including an account of the basis for the widely reproduced "Jefferson cups."
Reference: 2569
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "Monticello -- Jefferson's Palladian Retreat."
Publication: Museum News
Volume: 39
Date: 1961
Pages: 20-23
Notes: Short account of the house as it was in TJ's time and a discussion of research resources used in restoration and preservation.
Reference: 105
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Manufacturer."
Publication: The Iron Worker
Volume: 25
Date: 1961
Pages: 1-11
Notes: Account of TJ's nailery, joinery, and weaving shop operations at Monticello based on account books and archeological explorations.
Reference: 2566
Name: Bear , James A. Jr.
Title: "Accounts of Monticello: 1780-1878, A Selective Bibliography."
Publication: Magazine of Albermarle County History
Volume: 21
Date: 1963
Pages: 13-27
Notes: Checklist of first hand accounts, arranged chronologically.
Reference: 99
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: Jefferson's Advice to His Children and Grandchildren on Their Reading
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1967
Pages: pp. 33
Notes: While there is no list of TJ's recommendations for reading by the very young, there are indications of books recommended to and read by his children and grandchildren prior to their 16th birthdays. Books are described and documented.
Reference: 2564
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Art Collection."
Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1967
Pages: pp.6
Notes: Mimeographed sheets. Discusses the sale of part of TJ's collection in Boston in 1828-1833; lists 51 paintings with descriptions from TJ's 1809 catalogue.
Reference: 2567
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Ladies."
Publication: Augusta Historical Bulletin
Volume: 6
Date: 1970
Pages: 4-19
Notes: Thoughtful account of TJ's relations with women. Finds him "more thoughtful than sentimental, more conventional and utilitarian than advanced.
Reference: 106
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "The Furniture and Furnishings of Monticello."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 102
Date: 1972
Pages: 112-23
Notes: Good discussion of TJ's acquisition of furniture over the years. Illustrated.
Reference: 2563
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "The Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 32
Date: 1974
Pages: 63-79
Notes: Well-researched account of the death and burial of TJ.
Reference: 102
Name: Bear , James A., Jr.
Title: "The Hemings Family of Monticello."
Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 29
Date: 1979
Pages: 78-87
Notes: Carefully researched account of the Hemings family in TJ's time reveals a set of able, intelligent workers.
Reference: 100
Name: Bear , James A., Jr., ed.
Title: Jefferson at Monticello
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Press
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1967
Pages: pp. xiv, 144
Notes: Collects Isaac Jefferson's Memoirs of a Monticello Slave and Hamilton Wilcox Pierson's Jefferson at Monticello, with an introduction by the editor.
Reference: 101
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
Name: Beard , Charles A.
Title: "Jefferson and the New Freedom."
Publication: New Republic
Volume: l
Date: 1914
Pages: 18-19
Notes: Argues that TJ's agrarianism is at the core of his political philosophy. If so, then in view of the triumph of capitalism and industrialism, what message has TJ for the Wilson Democrats who claim to derive their "New Freedom" from him?
Reference: 2128
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
Name: Beard , Charles A.
Title: "Jefferson in America Now."
Publication: Yale Review. n.s.
Volume: 25
Date: 1935
Pages: 241-57
Notes: Argues that conservative appeals to TJ's authority against the New Deal are mistaken in their understanding of him.
Reference: 107
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
Name: Beard , Charles A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: A Civilized Man."
Publication: MVHR
Volume: 30
Date: (1943)
Pages: 159-70
Notes: "... republic--res publica—the public good, as incorporated in the idea of civilization, was for Mr. Jefferson a more fitting conception than democracy to be applied to American society..."
Reference: 2129
Name: Beard , Eva
Title: "Father of His Country's Housing."
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1946
Pages: 24
Notes: Note on TJ as architect.
Reference: 2570
Name: Beard , Eva
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Statesman and Scientist."
Publication: Nature Magazine
Volume: 51
Date: 1958
Pages: 202-04
Notes: Survey of scientific interests, based on secondary sources.
Reference: 2571
Name: Beard , Reed
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Brief Biographies of American Presidents, Embracing an Authentic Account of the Lives and Times of Our Presidents from the Ancestry of Washington to Cleveland's Administration.
Publisher: Spring, Emerson, and Co.
City: Lafayette, Ind.
Date: 1886
Pages: 102-42
Reference: 108
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
Name: Beck , James M.
Title: The Scholar in Politics. An Oration Delivered at Celebration of the One Hundred and Seventy-first Anniversary of the Birthday of Thomas Jefferson on Founders Day, April 13, 1914, at the University of Virginia. n.p.,
Date: 1914
Pages: pp. 27
Notes: Rambling praise.
Reference: 110
Name: Beck , James M.
Title: The Memory of Jefferson, An Address Delivered at a Stated Meeting of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia on the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. 8
Notes: Laudatory oration.
Reference: 109
Name: Becker , Carl
Title: The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
City: New York
Date: 1922
Pages: pp. x, 286
Notes: An important analysis of the premises underlaying the Declaration and its evolution from TJ's first draft. Considers also the literary qualities of the Declaration and its influence in the 18th century. A significant study which can be supplemented with but not replaced by Garry Wills' Inventing America. Rpt. with new introduction, New York: Knopf, 1942.
Reference: 2130
Name: Becker , Carl
Title: "What Is Still Living in the Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson?"
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 87
Date: (1943)
Pages: 201-10
Notes: Also in AHR. 48(1943), 691-706. "In respect to fundamentals, Jefferson's political philosophy is still valid for us; in respect to what is more superficial—in respect to certain favorite institutional forms—it is outmoded." Latter particularly true in regard to "banks and speculation, cities and industrial communities," and TJ's laissez faire doctrines.
Reference: 2131
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
Name: Bedini , Silvio A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Clock Designer."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 108
Date: (1964)
Pages: 163-80
Notes: Interesting and extensive description of TJ's interests in time pieces and time keeping as well as of his designs for various clocks, including the Great Clock at Monticello. Illustrated.
Reference: 2575
Name: Bedini , Silvio A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Watches."
Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 61
Date: 1967
Pages: 38-39
Notes: Brief, informative note.
Reference: 2573
Name: Bedini , Silvio A.
Title: "Godfather of American Invention"
Publication: The Smithsonian Book of Invention
Publisher: Smithsonian Exposition Books/W. W. Norton
City: New York
Date: 1978
Pages: 82-85
Notes: TJ as tinkerer and first administrator of the patent office.
Reference: 2572
Name: Bedini , Silvio A.
Title: Declaration of Independence Desk, Relic of Revolution
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
City: Washington
Date: 1981
Pages: pp.vii, 112
Reference: 111
Name: Bedini , Silvio A.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and Science. Exhibition Catalogue
Publisher: National Museum of American History
City: Washington
Date: 1981
Pages: pp. (16)
Notes: Survey of TJ's scientific interests; abridged version in Colonial Homes. 7(November/December 1981), 80-83.
Reference: 2574
Name: Beiswanger , William
Title: "Jefferson's Designs for Garden Structures at Monticello."
Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 35
Date: (1976)
Pages: 310-12
Notes: Describes plans and ideas from TJ's memorandum books and other sources; discusses the influence of Kames, Whately, and others. Only one garden structure is actually known to have been built.
Reference: 2577
Name: Beiswanger , William L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Designs for Garden Structures at Monticello."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1977
Pages: pp. 72
Reference: 2576
Name: Bell , Barry Ray
Title: "The Ideology and Rhetoric of the American Revolution."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1977
Pages: pp. 237
Notes: TJ masked ideological differences among the Patriots by conflating the ideology of the Real Whigs with that of the Evangelicals. DAI 39/02A, p. 879.
Reference: 2132
Name: Bell , Landon C.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, An Address Before the Columbus Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, n.p
Pages: pp. 19
Notes: Loosely organized survey.
Reference: 112
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
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
Name: Bellot , H. Hale
Title: "Thomas Jefferson in American Historiography."
Publication: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.
Volume: 5th ser. 4
Date: 1954
Pages: 135-55
Notes: Considers the treatment particularly after the Civil War of TJ as prophet of national democracy and the embarrassing question of his responsibility for the concept of nullification. Claims there has been no effect reinterpretation of TJ's ideas in light of the distinction drawn between allegiance to the rule of law and primary trust in the rule of the people
Reference: 113
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
Name: Belmont , Perry
Title: "Jefferson"
Publication: Political Equality: Religious Toleration from Roger Williams to Jefferson
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 1 33-36
Notes: Mostly quotations showing TJ was in favor of toleration.
Reference: 2133
Name: Beloff , Max
Title: Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
City: London
Date: 1948
Pages: pp. xi, 271
Notes: A volume in the Teach Yourself History Library, points out the difficult questions about TJ but evades answering them.
Reference: 115
Name: Beloff , Max
Title: "A 'Founding Father': The Sally Hemings Affair."
Publication: Encounter
Volume: 43
Date: 1974
Pages: 52-56
Notes: Inconclusive discussion of Fawn Brodie's claims.
Reference: 114
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
Name: Benet , Stephen Vincent
Title: "Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826"
Publication: A Book of Americans, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher: Farrar and Rinehart
City: New York
Date: 1933
Pages: 39-41
Notes: TJ's life in ballad form.
Reference: 2578
Name: Benjamin , Mary
Title: "More Fun!"
Publication: Collector
Volume: 65
Date: 1952
Pages: 194-95
Notes: Describes an invitation from TJ, in Meriwether Lewis' hand, to DeWitt Clinton for "dinner and chess."
Reference: 116
Name: Bennet , Hugh M.
Title: Thomas Jefferson Soil Conservationist
Publisher: Department of Agriculture
City: Washington
Date: 1944
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Soil Conservation Service Misc. Pub. 548. TJ as pioneer soil conservationist who practiced crop rotation, deep plowing, and contour plowing. Discusses mid-20th-century condition of his land.
Reference: 2579
Name: Bennett , H. Omer
Title: "The Religion of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Social Science
Volume: 5
Date: (1930)
Pages: 460-65
Notes: General survey.
Reference: 2134
Name: Bennett , Lerone
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Negro Grandchildren."
Publication: Ebony
Volume: 10
Date: 1954
Pages: 78-80
Notes: Descendents of Joseph Fossett, supposedly a son of Sally Hemings and TJ. Photographs.
Reference: 117
Name: Bennett , Paul L.
Title: "A Virginian and a Man from Massachusetts."
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1955
Pages: 5
Notes: Brief sketch of TJ and John Adams.
Reference: 118
Name: Bennett , Richard
Title: "A Confident Idealist."
Publication: House and Garden
Volume: 83
Date: 1943
Pages: 20-23
Notes: On the architecture and furnishings of Monticello.
Reference: 2580
Name: Benson , C. Randolph
Title: Thomas Jefferson as Social Scientist
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press
City: Rutherford, N.J.
Date: 1971
Pages: pp. 333
Notes: Revised version of dissertation noted above; as a man interested in finding a science of society, TJ was a precursor of modern social science.
Reference: 2136
Name: Benson , Carl W. Randolph
Title: "Sociological Elements in Selected Writings and Works of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ.
Date: 1966
Pages: pp. 369
Notes: TJ's thinking was based especially upon Locke's and Kames's theories on natural law and natural rights. He can be considered a protosociologist because of his insights into the elements of social control and socio-psychological determinants of human behavior. He was both a theorist and activist, a "practical idealist." DAI 27/08A, p. 2622.
Reference: 2135
Name: Benson , Samuel P.
Title: "Origin of Article VIII., Literature in the Constitution of Maine."
Publication: Collections of the Maine Historical Society.
Volume: 7
Date: 1876
Pages: 239-42
Notes: Governor William King stated that TJ wrote "the substance if not the exact words" of the article on education in the Maine Constitution.
Reference: 119
Name: Berenger , Henry
Title: "Jefferson and France"
Publication: Paroles d'Amerique
Publisher: Imprimerie F. Paillart
City: Abbeville
Date: 1926
Pages: 41-66
Notes: Tribute to TJ's affection for France.
Reference: 120
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
Name: Berkeley , Francis L.
Title: "Farmer Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Wisdom
Volume: 1
Date: 1956
Pages: 72-75
Notes: Shortened version of an essay which originally appeared in Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, ed. Betts.
Reference: 2581
Name: Berkeley , Francis L., Jr.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Rotunda: Myths and Realities."
Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni News
Volume: 59
Date: 1972
Pages: 4-9
Notes: Emphasizes TJ's innovative design for the Rotunda, pointing out it is no mere slavish copy of earlier buildings.
Reference: 2582
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
Name: Berman , Eleanor
Title: Thomas Jefferson Among the Arts, An Essay in Early Aesthetics
Publisher: Philosophical Library
City: New York
Date: 1947
Pages: pp. xviii, 305
Notes: Although TJ "had no philosophy of art, ... His esthetic ideas express ... a constellation of attitudes." TJ was "art as one of the first steps toward freedom." Claims a key to TJ's aesthetic principles is Hogarth's serpentine curve. A standard work, but a better is needed.
Reference: 2583
Name: Berman , Eleanor Davidson and E. C. McClintock, Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Rhetoric."
Publication: Quarterly Journal of Speech
Volume: 33
Date: (1947)
Pages: 1-8
Notes: Claims TJ's views on the art of rhetoric are valid and modern because he emphasized the social values of communication, the importance of accuracy, brevity and simplicity, and a balance between sound reasoning and effective presentation.
Reference: 2584
Name: Bernard , John
Title: "Recollections of President Jefferson"
Publication: Retrospectives of America 1797-1811.
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Date: 1887
Pages: 232-42
Notes: "His heart was warmed with a love for the whole human race; a bonhomie which fixed your attention the instant he spoke ... his conversational powers capable of discussing moral questions of deepest seriousness, or the lightest themes of humor and fantasy."
Reference: 121
Name: Bernhard , Karl, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Title: Reise Sr. Hoheit der Herzos Bernhard zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826. Hrs. von Heinrich Luden.
Publisher: Wilhelm Hoffman
City: Weimar
Date: 1828
Pages: 1: 296-99
Notes: These pages describe a visit to the Univ. of Virginia and Monticello in November 1825, noting especially TJ's art collection.
Reference: 122
Name: Bernstein , Samuel
Title: "Jefferson on the French Revolution"
Publication: Essays in Political and Intellectual History
Publisher: Paine-Whitman Publishers
City: New York
Date: 1955
Pages: 57-76
Notes: Surveys TJ's views of French society and character and gives a Marxist analysis of him as a thinker shocked by the "ugly manifestations" of capitalism in order to suggest that he had more in common with Robespierre and the Jacobins than with the Girondins. But since he derived most of his information from anti-Robespierrist sources, he leaned more toward the Girondins during their struggle with the Jacobins.
Reference: 2137
Name: Berryman , Charles
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: From Wilderness to Wasteland: The Trial of the Puritan God in the American Imagination
Publisher: Kennikat
City: Port Washington, N.Y.
Date: 1979
Pages: 98-103
Notes: Jejune account of a deist TJ who waged rhetorical warfare on the Puritans.
Reference: 2138
Name: Bestor , Arthur
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Freedom of Books"
Publication: Three Presidents and Their Books
Publisher: Univ. of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Date: 1955
Pages: 1-44
Notes: Resolves TJ's defence of intellectual liberty and his seemingly contradictory attempts to combat erroneous positions he found in books like Montesquieu's Spirit, Hume's History, and Blackstone's Commentaries. Defends rationale of the Univ. of Virginia Board Visitor's resolution of March 4, 1825.
Reference: 2585
Name: Betts , Edwin. M.
Title: "The Correspondence Between Constantine Samuel Rafinesque and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 87
Date: (1943)
Pages: 368-80
Notes: Correspondence reprinted with notes and commentary.
Reference: 2586
Name: Betts , Edwin M.
Title: "Jefferson's Gardens at Monticello."
Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 19
Date: (1945)
Pages: 180-82
Notes: Brief account of the Monticello gardens.
Reference: 2588
Name: Betts , Edwin M.
Title: "Groundplans and Prints of the University of Virginia, 1822-1826."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 90
Date: (1946)
Pages: 81-90
Notes: Using TJ's letters and early views, discusses his interest in the early iconography of the University.
Reference: 2587
Name: Betts , Edwin M. and Hazlehurst B. Perkins
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello
Publisher: Dietz Press
City: Richmond
Date: 1941
Pages: pp. 56
Notes: Account of TJ's interest in gardening and the plans of his original gardens as now restored at Monticello. Rpt. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1971. pp. ix, 60.
Reference: 2590
Name: Betts , Edwin Morris and James A. Bear, Jr.
Title: "Introduction" to The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: Univ. of Missouri Press
City: Columbia
Date: 1966
Pages: 3-14
Notes: Discusses TJ's family life and family. Letters printed in this collection are annotated and arranged chronologically.
Reference: 123
Name: Betts , Edwin Morris, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824, With relevant extracts from his other writings
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1944
Pages: pp. xiv, 704
Notes: TJ's record of his gardens, substantially augmented by relevant passages from his correspondence, and by significant annotations. A veritable botanical biography.
Reference: 2591
Name: Betts , Edwin Morris, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, With Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings
Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press. for the American Philosophical Society
City: Princeton
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. xxii, 552
Notes: Facsimile of the Farm Book with transcription, commentary, and supporting material arranged topically. Invaluable.
Reference: 2589
Name: Beutin , Ludwig
Title: "Hamilton und Jefferson."
Publication: Historische Zeitschrift
Volume: 177
Date: 1954
Pages: 495-516
Notes: Surveys twentieth-century historical writing on TJ and Hamilton, arguing that treatment of them reflects both the prejudices of the writers and an increasing scholarly sophistication.
Reference: 124
Name: Bevan , Edith Rossiter, ed.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson in Annapolis, November 25, 1783—May 11, 1784."
Publication: Maryland Historical Magazine
Volume: 41
Date: 1946
Pages: 115-24
Notes: Transcribes his expense account while delegate to Congress.
Reference: 125
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
Name: Biancolli , Louis
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Fiddler."
Publication: Life
Volume: 22
Date: 1947
Pages: 13+
Notes: TJ, his Amati "fiddle," and its supposed peregrinations after his death. Folklore, treated here with little skepticism.
Reference: 2592
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
Name: Biddle , Nicholas
Title: Eulogium on Thomas Jefferson, Delivered Before the American Philosophical Society, on the Eleventh Day of April 1827.
Publisher: Robert H. Small
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1827
Pages: pp. 55
Notes: TJ was a force for reason, science, and enlightened leadership. One of the most interesting of the eulogies.
Reference: 126
Name: Bierstadt , Edward Hale
Title: "Was Jefferson Right?"
Publication: Reviewer
Volume: 2
Date: 1922
Pages: 301-05
Reference: 127
Name: Bigelow , John
Title: "Jefferson's Financial Diary."
Publication: Harper's Magazine
Volume: 70
Date: 1885
Pages: 534-42
Notes: Detailed description with extracts from TJ's account book from 17911803.
Reference: 128
Name: Bigelow , John
Title: "Thomas Jefferson" in The Louisiana Purchase of 1803: A History from the Earliest Explorations to the Present Time, of the Territory Acquired by the Louisiana Purchase; Together With Some Account of the Famous Men Connected Therewith, ....
Publisher: Encyclopedia Brittanica Co.
City: New York
Date: 1904
Pages: 9-21
Reference: 129
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
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
Name: Binger , Carl
Title: "Conflicts in the Life of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume: 125
Date: 1969
Pages: 1098-1106
Notes: Argues that TJ "achieved an extraordinary mastery of his life." Also suggests TJ and Hamilton were competing for the love of a father figure (Washington) and this rivalry was complicated by their mutual admiration. Lyman H. Butterfield in reply generally agrees, but points to TJ's deficient sense of humor, his avoidance of conflict, his silences. Suggestive exchange.
Reference: 130
Name: Binger , Carl
Title: Thomas Jefferson: A Well-Tempered Mind.
Publisher: Norton
City: New York
Date: 1970
Pages: pp. 209
Notes: Psychological study claiming to demonstrate the inner harmony of TJ's mind as a result of his reconciliation of masculine, aggressive, executive characteristics with feminine, aesthetic, care-taking attributes.
Reference: 131
Name: Binney , Marcus
Title: "University of Virginia."
Publication: Country Life
Volume: 163
Date: 1978
Pages: 74-77; 163(January 19, 1978), 142-45.
Notes: Discussion of TJ's architectural designs, the possible influences on them—most interestingly by Charles Kelsall—and their realization.
Reference: 2594
Name: Birch , John J.
Title: "The Ride of Jack Jouett, the Hero of Virginia."
Publication: Americana
Volume: 23
Date: 1929
Pages: 454-57
Notes: Ride to warn TJ of Tarleton's approach to Monticello.
Reference: 133
Name: Birdwell , A. W.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Author of American Liberty.
Publisher: Star Engraving Co.
City: Houston
Date: 194?
Pages: pp. 14
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 134
Name: Bishop , Arthur, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: Chronology -- Documents -- Bibliographic Aids.
Publisher: Oceana
City: Dobbs Ferry
Date: 1971
Pages: 122
Notes: A "research tool ... for the student;" very basic.
Reference: 2
Name: Bishop , H. O.
Title: "Twenty Minutes with Jefferson."
Publication: National Republic
Volume: 25
Date: 1938
Pages: 1-2, 16
Notes: TJ gives a lesson in Americanism.
Reference: 136
Name: Bishop , William Warner
Title: "Training in the Use of Books"
Publication: The Backs of Books and Other Essays on Librarianship
Publisher: Williams and Wilkins
City: Baltimore
Date: 1926
Pages: 99-124
Notes: Discusses TJ's library and compares it to the size and complexity of modern libraries.
Reference: 2595
Name: Bitter , Karl
Title: "Thomas Jefferson from the Statue."
Publication: Century
Volume: 86
Date: 1913
Pages: 27
Notes: Photograph of statue for the St. Louis Jefferson Memorial.
Reference: 2596
Name: Bizardel , Yvon
Title: "Les Americains de l'An II"
Publication: Informations & Documents
Volume: 216
Date: 1965
Pages: 24-29
Notes: How TJ and other Americans in Paris coped with the Revolution.
Reference: 137
Name: Bizardel , Yvon and Howard C. Rice, Jr.
Title: '"Poor in Love Mr. Short."'
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 21
Date: 1964
Pages: 516-32
Notes: Account of the "sentimental life" of TJ's protege and secretary in France, 1784-1789, deals with the relationship between Short and TJ.
Reference: 138
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
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
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
Name: Blanck , Jacob
Title: "News from the Rare Book Sellers."
Publication: Publisher's Weekly
Volume: 143
Date: (1943)
Pages: 1530-31
Notes: Brief comments on TJ's library and its acquisition by the nation.
Reference: 2597
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
Name: Blau , Joseph
Title: "Enlightened Politics: Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Men and Movements in American Philosophy
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
City: New York
Date: 1952
Pages: 46-55
Notes: Sketch of TJ as philosopher; argues that he thinks of the moral sense in utilitarian terms and as answerable to reason and calculation. Therefore, it is not a conscience and its judgments are relative.
Reference: 2139
Name: Blinderman , Abraham
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Administrator, Practitioner, and Patient."
Publication: New York State Journal of Medicine
Volume: 70
Date: 1970
Pages: 690-96
Notes: TJ's interest in science led him to pioneer in medical education.
Reference: 2598
Name: Blinderman , Charles S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Humanist."
Publication: Humanist
Volume: 20
Date: 1960
Pages: 203-11
Notes: Claims TJ can be a polemical weapon for the modern humanist in "proselytizing of the masses."
Reference: 2140
Name: Bliven , Bruce
Title: "Our Legacy from Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: Reader's Digest
Volume: 82
Date: 1963
Pages: 160-68
Notes: Superficial; rpt. in A Mirror for Greatness. New York: McGraw Hill, 1975. 107-35 in revised form.
Reference: 139
Name: Bloch , Harry
Title: "Thomas Jefferson 1743 to 1826, Thoughts on Medicine, Child Care and Welfare."
Publication: New York State Journal of Medicine
Volume: 72
Date: (1972)
Pages: 3030-32
Notes: TJ's concern for children's diseases, mostly in his own family.
Reference: 2599
Name: Bloss , George M. D.
Title: "Jefferson, the Second Vice-President and the Third President of the United States"
Publication: Historic and Literary Miscellany
Publisher: R. Clarke and Co.
City: Cincinnati
Date: 1875
Pages: pp. 62-67
Notes: Laudatory sketch.
Reference: 140
Name: Bo , Jorgen and Borge Glahn
Title: En Amerikansk Arkitekt
Publisher: Schonbergske Forlag
City: Kobenhavn
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. (28)
Notes: On TJ as architect, in Danish.
Reference: 2600
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
Name: Boas , George
Title: "La Philosophie dans la Vie de Jefferson."
Publication: A.B.A. Bulletin de l'Association Belgo-Americaine
Volume: 6
Date: 1949
Pages: 4-7
Notes: Discusses natural law doctrine and contends that TJ's use and understanding of this was dominated by a curious complex of traditions— protestant, Aristotelian, Epicurean—which seemed axiomatic to him. But he used his philosophy to regulate his life.
Reference: 2141
Name: Boehm , Dwight and Edward Schwartz
Title: "Jefferson and the Theory of Degeneracy."
Publication: American Quarterly
Volume: 9
Date: (1957)
Pages: 448-53
Notes: TJ performed valuable service in refuting Buffon's theories which were used for political and propaganda purposes.
Reference: 2601
Name: Bogart , William H. ("Sentinel")
Title: Who Goes There? or, Men and Events.
Publisher: Carleton
City: New York
Date: 1866
Pages: 37-40
Notes: Anecdotes about TJ stressing his sociability.
Reference: 141
Name: Bok-Van Bork , Jacoba Johanna
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: "Bijdrage tot de Psychologie van den Staatsman." Ph.D. dissertation.
Publisher: Univ. of Amsterdam
City: Amsterdam
Date: 1924
Pages: 37-64
Notes: Printed: Haarlem: H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1924. Psychological portrait, but based on Morse's and Parton's lives of TJ.
Reference: 142
Name: Boller , Paul F., Jr.
Title: "Jefferson's Dreams of the Future."
Publication: Southwestern Review
Volume: 44
Date: (1959)
Pages: 109-14
Notes: TJ the Apostle of Democracy, etc.
Reference: 2142
Name: Bolton , Sarah Knowles
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Famous American Statesmen
Publisher: Crowell
City: New York
Date: 1888
Pages: 67-98
Notes: Chapter in a companion book to her Poor Boys Who Became Famous; often reprinted.
Reference: 143
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
Name: Bonn , Franklyn George, Jr.
Title: "The Idea of Political Party in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Minnesota
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. 305
Notes: Both TJ and Madison disapproved of parties, but in "the face of an opposition whose unity they exaggerated" they became increasingly aware of the need for a cohesive and organized party. Yet, their "suspicions of party activities in general ... account for a number of their mistaken comments on the changed nature of American parties as evident by the early 1800's." DAI 26/02, p. 1135.
Reference: 2143
Name: Bonnell , Ulane
Title: "The World of Franklin and Jefferson."
Publication: Manuscripts
Volume: 28
Date: 1976
Pages: 213-15
Notes: Describes an exhibit which opened in Paris in January, 1975.
Reference: 144
Name: Boorstin , Daniel J.
Title: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Holt
City: New York
Date: 1948
Pages: pp. xii, 306
Notes: On the scientific ideas and work of a group of men associated for the most part with the American Philosophical Society, called by Boorstin "the Jeffersonian Circle" with TJ as the ordering center for their discrete investigations. Valuable, informative study of scientific ideas of the age, but generalizes too easily from one particular figure to "Jeffersonian" in general. TJ treated passim.
Reference: 2144
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
Name: Booth , Edward Townsend
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Piedmont Villa"
Publication: Country Life in America as Lived by Ten Presidents of the United States.
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York
Date: 1947
Pages: 76-103
Notes: Life at Monticello. TJ, like Washington, "took to broad and impersonal a view of farming. He and Washington, in effect, ran two very expensive agricultural experiment stations.
Reference: 145
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
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
Name: Borne , O. S.
Title: "Jefferson and the Dark Days of '14."
Publication: National Magazine
Volume: 11
Date: 1900
Pages: 551-56
Notes: Fanciful portrait of TJ in despair, unaware of the Treaty of Ghent; blames the war on him.
Reference: 146
Name: Bottorf , William K.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson Tours New England."
Publication: New England Galaxy
Volume: 20
Date: 1979
Pages: 3-7
Reference: 147
Name: Bottorf , William K.
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Twayne
City: Boston
Date: 1979
Pages: pp. 162
Notes: A volume in the Twayne United States Authors Series; competent introduction which pays particular attention to his aesthetic interests and literary gifts.
Reference: 148
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
Name: Boutell , Lewis Henry
Title: Thomas Jefferson, The Man of Letters
Publisher: Privately Printed
City: Chicago
Date: 1891
Pages: pp. 73
Notes: Uncritical sketch of TJ's education, his interest in the classics, and early days at the Univ. of Virginia. Nothing of value on his literary art or practice.
Reference: 2603
Name: Bowen , Dorothy
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—1743-1943: A Bicentennial Exhibition."
Publication: Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume: 6
Date: 1943
Pages: 495-504
Notes: Account of material from the Huntington on exhibit there.
Reference: 149
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
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
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Patriotic Editorials Written ... Expressly for The Sesqui-Centennial of American Independence and the Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission.
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation,
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: unpag.
Notes: Fund raising effort for Monticello.
Reference: 153
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: The Founders of the Republic
Publisher: American Library Association,
City: Chicago
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. 36
Notes: An introduction to a course of readings which includes Bower's Jefferson and Hamilton.
Reference: 151
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Thomas Jefferson; An Address Before the Democratic Women's Luncheon Club of Philadelphia, February 7th 1927.
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. 21
Reference: 155
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
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Founder's Day Address."
Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Newsletter.
Volume: 16
Date: 1928
Pages: 185-93
Notes: TJ is a "living, vital principle" who opposes the enemies of democracy at home and abroad.
Reference: 150
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Civil and Religious Liberty, Jefferson: O'Connell: Two Orations
Publisher: Holy Cross College
City: Worcester, Mass.
Date: 1930
Pages: pp. viii, 88
Notes: TJ as an advocate of religious freedom, particularly as it has touched Roman Catholics.
Reference: 2145
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
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
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Jefferson and the Freedom of the Human Spirit."
Publication: Ethics
Volume: 53
Date: (1943)
Pages: 237-45
Notes: TJ fought for the freedom of speech, religious freedom, and academic freedom.
Reference: 2146
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
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson of Monticello."
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1943
Pages: 5, 33
Reference: 156
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Jefferson and the American Way of Life"
Publication: The Heritage of Jefferson.
Publisher: International Publishers
City: New York
Date: 1944
Pages: 13-29
Notes: Argues for TJ as a revolutionist, iconoclast, and radical who defined the American way of life.
Reference: 152
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: The Young Jefferson, 1743-1789.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1945
Pages: pp. xxx, 544
Notes: The first volume in Bowers' biographic trilogy, but the last written; concentrates on the "human Jefferson" as the foundation for the successes of the later political Jefferson.
Reference: 157
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
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
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
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: High Moment, ed. Wallace Brockway.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
City: New York
Date: 1955
Pages: 129-46
Reference: 154
Name: Bowes , Mary M.
Title: "The Spirit of Jefferson: Wine Growing, The Adlum Letters"
Publication: Jefferson and Wine, ed. R. deTreville Lawrence, Sr.
Publisher: Vinifera Wine Growers Association
City: The Plains, Va.
Date: 1976
Pages: 121-31
Notes: Discusses TJ's difficulties in trying to grow vinifera grapes and his encouragement of efforts to use native grapes. Prints correspondence with John Adlum, who was growing vines on his estates in Maryland and Washington, D. C.
Reference: 2604
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
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
Name: Bowman , Isaiah
Title: "Jeffersonian 'Freedom of Speech' from the Standpoint of Science."
Publication: Science
Volume: n.s. 82
Date: (1935)
Pages: 529-32
Notes: The Jeffersonian demand for freedom of speech is crucial for the protection and advancement of science, especially at a time when politicians are attempting to direct and dictate the course of science.
Reference: 2605
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Report to the Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Commission on the need, scope, proposed method of preparation, probably cost, and possible mens of publishing a comprehensive edition of the Writings of Thomas Jefferson."
City: Washington
Date: 1943
Pages: pp.32(mimeographed)
Notes: Boyd was historian of the Commission; this report helped lay the way for the Princeton edition of the papers.
Reference: 166
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson to Dr. Rush with Affection."
Publication: Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress.
Volume: l
Date: 1944
Pages: 3-9
Notes: Discusses context and prints correct copy of the letter of September 23, 1800 to Rush in which he swears eternal hostility against tyranny over the mind of man.
Reference: 164
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
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
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Subversive of What?"
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 132
Date: 1948
Pages: 19-23
Notes: TJ's defense of freedom of speech and of opinion used as the basis for a tract for the times. Brief discussion of his defense of Nicholas Dufief, his Philadelphia provider of French books.
Reference: 2148
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Police State."
Publication: North Carolina Historical Review
Volume: 25
Date: (1948)
Pages: 233-53
Notes: Contends that TJ as political realist understood the need for, in Blackstone's words, "due regulation and domestic order," but he never swerved from opposition to any attempt to coerce opinion. "Dissent and the threat of revolution ... would serve as proof of our courage and strength." The Jeffersonian example particularly needs to be remembered today (1948).
Reference: 2150
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's 'Empire of Liberty' "
Publication: VQR
Volume: 24
Date: (1948)
Pages: 538-54
Notes: Argues that TJ's belief in reason and individual freedom was neither naive nor shallow and that "his understanding of the relation of a people to its land" was an important contribution to the bond of national union.
Reference: 2149
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Jefferson's Final Testament of Faith."
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1949
Pages: 11, 33-39
Notes: On the June 21, 1826 letter to R. S. Weightman.
Reference: 162
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
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: A Geranium for Lyman
Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
City: Princeton
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 6
Notes: Farewell note to Lyman Butterfield, recalls TJ's gift to Margaret Bayard Smith of a potted geranium when he left Washington in 1809.
Reference: 161
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: Thomas Jefferson Survives
Publication: American Scholar
Volume: 20
Date: 1951
Pages: 163-73
Notes: Even so, few of the voices now claiming TJ's authority are authentic echoes of his.
Reference: 170
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "The Relevance of Thomas Jefferson for the Twentieth Century."
Publication: American Scholar
Volume: 22
Date: 1953
Pages: 61-76
Notes: Applauds TJ's faith in principle, in the rights of man, and in knowledge, but notes that, paradoxically, increasingly exact, predictive
Reference: 165
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Some Animadversions on Being Struck by Lightning"
Publication: Daedalus
Volume: 86
Date: 1955
Pages: 49-56
Notes: On editing the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Reference: 168
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "The Smooth Handle"; A Challenge to the Organization Man
Publisher: College of William and Mary
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1957
Pages: pp.10
Notes: Rpt. from Seminar, An Academic Journal. 2(Spring 1957). TJ illustrates the proper behavior of a citizen in a republic, a challenger of conventional beliefs but a respecter of people's right to govern themselves.
Reference: 167
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "The Megalonyx, the Megatherium, and Thomas Jefferson's Lapse of Memory."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 102
Date: (1958)
Pages: 420-35
Notes: Careful, extensive account of TJ's writing of his memoir on the megalonyx—how he initially was led to believe it was "of the lion kind," how he came to realize it was in fact related to the megatherium, a recently discovered fossil sloth. He might have avoided the initial error had he remembered the drawing of the megatherium by Juan Bautista Bru he had acquired in Paris.
Reference: 2607
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
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: The Enduring World of Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: College of William and Mary
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1963
Pages: pp. 20
Notes: "What the world of Jefferson has to offer us ... is only an abstraction and an example drawn from an era that may be wholly irrelevant in the world we face."
Reference: 159
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Foreward"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson on Science and Freedom: The Letter to the Student William Greene Munford, June 18, 1799. With a Foreward by Julian P. Boyd
Publisher: Achille J. St. Onge
City: Worcester, Mass.
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. 60
Notes: Discusses TJ as letter writer and identifies Munford; a miniature book.
Reference: 2606
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
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: The Spirit of Christmas at Monticello
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York
Date: 1964
Pages: pp.60
Notes: Surveys the variety of Christmas celebration in 18th century Virginia and discusses in particular TJ's visit at Christmas, 1759, to Colonel Nathaniel Dandridtge. TJ, however, does not mention in his letters festive activities at Christmas, even though he clearly practiced some of the traditions. Best piece on the subject.
Reference: 169
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Introduction"
Publication: The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, ed. John P. Foley.
Publisher: Russell and Russell
City: New York
Date: 1967
Pages: not given
Notes: Rpt. separately; comments on the range of TJ's opinions and the usefulness of Foley's compilation.
Reference: 160
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Jefferson's French Baggage, Crated and Uncrated."
Publication: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Volume: 83
Date: 1971
Pages: 16-27
Notes: Account of the shipment in 1790 of TJ's acquisitions in France.
Reference: 163
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Adrienne Koch: Historian."
Publication: Maryland Historian
Volume: 3
Date: 1972
Pages: 5-8
Notes: Evaluates an eminent Jefferson scholar's work on TJ.
Reference: 158
Name: Boyd , Julian P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Roman Askos of Nimes."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 104
Date: 1973
Pages: 116-24
Notes: Detailed, thorough account of TJ's wooden copy and subsequent model in silver of the askos belonging to Francois Seguier of Nimes. Information also on TJ's visit to Nimes and his relations with Charles Louis Clerisseau.
Reference: 2609
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
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
Name: Boyd , Julian P and Alfred L. Bush
Title: While the Art of Printing is Left to Us, Science Can Never Be Retrograde
Publication: Let Every Sluice of Knowledge be Open'd and set a Flowing A Tribute to Philip May Hamer
City: New York
Date: 1960
Pages: unpag.
Notes: Three page discussion of TJ's letter to William Green Munford, June 18, 1799; facsimile and transcription.
Reference: 171
Name: Boyd , Julian P., Lyman H. Butterfield, and Walter M. Whitehill
Title: Thomas Jefferson Among the Antiquities of Southern France in 1787. A Tribute to E. Harold Hugo
Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
City: Princeton
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. (23)
Notes: Historical introduction to a letter dated March 20, 1787, from TJ to the Comtesse de Tesse on his travels in southern France and her reply.
Reference: 2608
Name: Boyd , Julian Parks
Title: "A Perspective View from Monticello ... Phi Beta Kappa Address, Sweet Briar College, February 28, 1961."
Publication: Bulletin of Sweet Briar College
Volume: 44
Date: 1961
Pages: 1-26
Notes: Rpt. separately and thus seen. The importance of learning at a time of transition, illustrated with reference to TJ; peripheral.
Reference: 2147
Name: Boykin , Edward
Title: Thomas Jefferson and Religious Freedom
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Commission
City: Washington
Date: 1942
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Illustrated pamphlet.
Reference: 2151
Name: Boykin , Edward
Title: Affectionately Yours, Thomas Jefferson
Publication: Ladies Home Journal
Volume: 81
Date: 1964
Pages: 136-42
Notes: Introductory note and family correspondence selected from the author's To the Girls and Boys
Reference: 172
Name: Boykin , Edward
Title: To the Girls and Boys, Being The Delightful, Little-Known Letters of Thomas Jefferson to and from His Children and Grandchildren
Publisher: Funk and Wagnalls
City: New York
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. x, 210
Notes: Historical notes and commentary accompany the letters.
Reference: 174
Name: Boykin , Edward, comp.
Title: Thomas Jeffeson Quiz Book
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Commission,
City: Washington
Date: 1943
Pages: pp. 30
Notes: 91 questions and answers for students.
Reference: 173
Name: Brackenridge , Henry M.
Title: A Eulogy on the Lives and Characters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. By the Hon. H. M. Brackenridge.
Publisher: W. Hasell Hunt
City: Pensacola
Date: 1826
Pages: pp. 18
Notes: Touches comprehensively on the careers and accomplishments of both Adams and TJ and delivers equal praise.
Reference: 175
Name: Brackenridge , Henry M.
Title: Speeches on the Jew Bill, in the House of Delegates of Maryland, by H. M. Brackenridge, Col. W.G.D. Worthington, and John S. Tyson, Esquire. Together with an Argument on the Chancery Powers. and An Eulogy of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, etc by H. M. Brackenridge
Publisher: J. Dobson
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1829
Pages: pp.276
Notes: Reprints the Pensacola eulogy of August 1826, 157-82; includes also "Western Antiquities, Communicated in a Letter to Thomas Jefferson," 192-205, arguing for Mexican influence on the moundbuilders.
Reference: 2610
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
Name: Bradford , Gamaliel
Title: "Thomas Jefferson" and "Ode to Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Enchanted Years, ed. John Calvin Metcalf and James Southall Wilson
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
City: New York
Date: 1921
Pages: 34-37
Notes: Two poems.
Reference: 2611
Name: Bradford , M. E.
Title: "Faulkner and the Jefferson Dream: Nationalism in 'Two Soldiers' and 'Shall Not Perish."'
Publication: Mississippi Quarterly
Volume: 18
Date: 1965
Pages: 94-100
Notes: Asserts that Faulkner's admiration for his furmers and hill folk is an allegiance to "the Jeffersonian ideal of 'independent' men.
Reference: 2612
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
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
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
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
Name: Brasch , Frederick E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Scientist."
Publication: Science
Volume: n.s. 97
Date: (1943)
Pages: 300-01
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 2613
Name: Brent , Robert A.
Title: "Nicholas Philip Trist—A Link Between Jefferson and Jackson?"
Publication: Southern Quarterly
Volume: I(no. 2, 1963)
Date: 1963
Pages: 87-97
Notes: Sketch of Trist as TJ's secretary and grandson-in-law and friend of Jackson.
Reference: 177
Name: Brent , Robert A.
Title: "Two Jeffersonian Myths Explored."
Publication: American Studies in the Philippines
Volume: l
Date: 1965
Pages: 47-61
Notes: His belief in absolute equality, his being a thorough-going democrat are myths. Punctures straw men. Revised version published as "Puncturing Some Jeffersonian Mythology." Southern Quarterly. 6(1968), 175-90.
Reference: 2153
Name: Brent , Robert A.
Title: Mr. Jefferson of Virginia; Renaissance Gentleman in America.
City: Quezon City?
Date: 1966?
Pages: pp. xii, 150
Notes: Has a "Foreward" by Edward Mattos and "On Jefferson" by 1. P. Soliongco.
Reference: 176
Name: Brent , Robert A.
Title: "The Jeffersonian Outlook on Religion."
Publication: Southern Quarterly
Volume: 5
Date: (1967)
Pages: 417-32
Notes: Contends TJ was "a deeply spiritual man,~ although his opposition to established churches and the doctrine of the Trinity antagonized various of his contemporaries. "In all things religious or political he was motivated by one consuming passion—that of the necessity of freedom for the human body, mind, and spirit."
Reference: 2152
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
Name: Brent , Robert Arthur
Title: "Nicholas Philip Trist's Search for a Career." M.A. thesis.
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1947
Pages: pp. 92
Notes: A short biographical sketch of Trist, who was TJ's last private secretary and who married his granddaughter, Virginia Randolph.
Reference: 178
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
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
Name: Bridges , David L.
Title: "A Historical Study of Thomas Jefferson." M.A. thesis.
Publisher: North Texas State Univ.
Date: 1958
Pages: none given
Reference: 179
Name: Bridgman , Richard
Title: "Jefferson's Farmer Before Jefferson."
Publication: American Quarterly
Volume: 14
Date: (1962)
Pages: 567-77
Notes: Pre-revolutionary literature on farming was adapted for the most part from English sources and had little relevance for the American situation. Despite the idealizations of pastoral poetry, observers of actual American farmers often found them lazy and ignorant. "Jefferson's forceful idealism" claims the author, "rescued American pride."
Reference: 2615
Name: Bridgwater , Dorothy
Title: "A New Letter to Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Yale Univ. Library Gazette
Volume: 30
Date: 1955
Pages: 29-30
Notes: Letter of Harry Innes, November 29, 1781, noted as unlocated in the Papers, 6:159.
Reference: 180
Name: Brigham , Johnson
Title: "Jefferson on Christianity and the Common Law. A Forgotten Chapter in the Life of Jefferson."
Publication: Green Bag
Volume: 12
Date: (1900)
Pages: 44 1-44
Notes: Describes in some detail TJ's "Whether Christianity Is a Part of the Common Law" and his subsequent opinion on this.
Reference: 2154
Name: Bright , Robert
Title: Address...Before the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration
Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1910?
Pages: pp.21
Notes: TJ as philosopher of free enterprise and individualism
Reference: 181
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
Name: Brock , Macon A.
Title: "Roman Possesses Historical Clock."
Publication: The Pendulum (Rome Georgia)
Volume: l
Date: 1929
Pages: 1
Notes: TJ's descendant, H. P. Meikleham, owned a clock made in Paris for TJ by Paul Moinet; illustrated.
Reference: 2616
Name: Brodie , Fawn M.
Title: "Jefferson Biographers and the Psychology of Canonization."
Publication: Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Volume: 2
Date: 1971
Pages: 155-71
Notes: Review essay of biographical volumes by Dumas Malone and Merrill Peterson, criticizing them for being "extremely protective of (TJ's) inner life," particularly in regard to his sex life and Sally Hemings.
Reference: 183
Name: Brodie , Fawn M.
Title: "The Great Jefferson Taboo."
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 22
Date: 1972
Pages: 48-57, 97-100
Notes: Claims that the evidence showing TJ as the father of Sally Hemings' children, while not conclusive, is suggestive.
Reference: 182
Name: Brodie , Fawn M.
Title: "The Political Hero in America: His Fate and His Future."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 46
Date: 1974
Pages: 46-60
Notes: Discusses the difficulties in maintaining American political heroes; even TJ is in question because of his attitudes toward blacks and the Sally Hemings affair.
Reference: 184
Name: Brodie , Fawn M.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History.
Publisher: Norton
City: New York
Date: 1974
Pages: pp. 591
Notes: Controversial biography focusing on TJ's private life and its relation to his public life. Has been criticized both on the grounds of historical accuracy and psychological method, but if the claims for TJ's sexual liaisons are fully unsupported, the handling of his response to the death of his wife and his dealing with grief is interesting.
Reference: 185
Name: Brodie , Fawn M.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Unknown Grandchildren: A Study in Historical Silence."
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 27
Date: 1976
Pages: 28-33, 94-99
Notes: On Sally Hemings' descendants and family traditions linking them to TJ as ancestor; a more assertive continuation of claims made in the author's Thomas Jefferson.
Reference: 186
Name: Brogan, , Denis W.
Title: "The Ghost of Jefferson."
Publication: Fortnightly
Volume: 146
Date: 1936
Pages: 88-92
Notes: Explaining to a British audience why American politicians of different persuasions all appeal to the authority of TJ.
Reference: 187
Name: Brogan , Denis W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: American Themes
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
City: London
Date: 1948
Pages: 175-80
Notes: Review essay occasioned by Saul Padover's biography; suggests that TJ's self-chosen epitaph is not a rejection of public honors but an underlying "scepticism of the permanence of any political form."
Reference: 188
Name: Broglie , Axelle de
Title: "Jefferson's Pursuit of Happiness."
Publication: Realities
Volume: 250
Date: 1971
Pages: 39-45
Notes: TJ's life at Monticello. Illustrated.
Reference: 189
Name: Broglie , Axelle de
Title: "Une Visite a Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Connaisance des Arts
Volume: No. 229
Date: 1971
Pages: 67-75
Notes: TJ at Monticello was visited by Frenchmen like Chastellux, and his style of living showed the influence of his stay in France.
Reference: 2617
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
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
Name: Brooks , Elbridge Streeter
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Historic Americans
Publisher: Crowell
City: New York
Date: 1899
Pages: 100-14
Reference: 190
Name: Brooks , Erastus
Title: Address by Hon. Erastus Brooks. What True Democracy Means: as Illustrated in the Life and Character of Thomas Jefferson. Delivered Before the Jefferson Club of New Brighton, S.I.... Printed for Circulation on the Birthday Anniversary April 2, 1884.
Publisher: Richmond County Democrat Steam Job Print
City: Tompkinsville, NY
Date: 1884
Pages: pp. 27
Reference: 191
Name: Brooks , Geraldine
Title: "Martha Jefferson, Daughter of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic.
Publisher: T. Y. Crowell
City: New York
Date: 1901
Pages: 176-215
Reference: 192
Name: Brooks , Joan Louise
Title: "Jefferson and Bryant: Th