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===Biography=== | ===Biography=== | ||
* Adams, William Howard. ''The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson'' (1997). | |||
* Bernstein, Richard B. ''Thomas Jefferson'' (2005) short biography [http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-R-B-Bernstein/dp/0195181301/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201550604&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search] | * Bernstein, Richard B. ''Thomas Jefferson'' (2005) short biography [http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-R-B-Bernstein/dp/0195181301/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201550604&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Cunningham, Noble E. Jr . ''In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson'' (1988, short biography) [http://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Reason-Life-Thomas-Jefferson/dp/0345353803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203807419&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | * Cunningham, Noble E. Jr . ''In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson'' (1988, short biography) [http://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Reason-Life-Thomas-Jefferson/dp/0345353803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203807419&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Ellis, Joseph J. ''American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson'' (1998), interpretive essays [http://www.amazon.com/American-Sphinx-Character-Thomas-Jefferson/dp/0679444904/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197165858&sr=3 excerpt and text search] | * Ellis, Joseph J. ''American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson'' (1998), influential interpretive essays [http://www.amazon.com/American-Sphinx-Character-Thomas-Jefferson/dp/0679444904/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197165858&sr=3 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Hofstadter, Richard. ''The American Political Tradition'' (1948), chapter on TJ [http://www.historyebook.org/ online at ACLS e-books] | * Hofstadter, Richard. ''The American Political Tradition'' (1948), chapter on TJ [http://www.historyebook.org/ online at ACLS e-books] | ||
* Kimball, Marie. ''Jefferson, War and Peace, 1776 to 1784'' 1947 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=3924448 online edition] | * Kimball, Marie. ''Jefferson, War and Peace, 1776 to 1784'' 1947 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=3924448 online edition] | ||
* McDonald, Forrest. ''The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson'' (1987) intellectual history approach to TJ's presidency | * McDonald, Forrest. ''The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson'' (1987) intellectual history approach to TJ's presidency | ||
* Malone, Dumas. v. 1, "Jefferson the Virginian'' (1948); v. 2 ''Jefferson and the Rights of man''; v.3: ''Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty'' ; v. 4: ''Jefferson the President: First Term 1801 - 1805''; v. 5: ''Jefferson the President: Second term, 1805-1809''; v.6: ''The Sage of Monticello'' (1948-70), the standard scholarly biography; [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/jefferson.html short bio by Malone] | * Malone, Dumas. v. 1, "Jefferson the Virginian'' (1948); v. 2 ''Jefferson and the Rights of man''; v.3: ''Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty'' ; v. 4: ''Jefferson the President: First Term 1801 - 1805''; v. 5: ''Jefferson the President: Second term, 1805-1809''; v.6: ''The Sage of Monticello'' (1948-70), the standard scholarly biography; [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/jefferson.html short bio by Malone] | ||
* Onuf, Peter, ed. ''Jeffersonian Legacies'' (1993), essays by scholars | |||
* Peterson, Merrill D. ''Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography'' (1986), long, detailed biography by leading scholar; [http://www.questia.com/library/book/thomas-jefferson-and-the-new-nation-a-biography-by-merrill-d-peterson.jsp online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-New-Nation-Biography/dp/0195019091/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203807519&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search] | * Peterson, Merrill D. ''Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography'' (1986), long, detailed biography by leading scholar; [http://www.questia.com/library/book/thomas-jefferson-and-the-new-nation-a-biography-by-merrill-d-peterson.jsp online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-New-Nation-Biography/dp/0195019091/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203807519&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Peterson, Merrill D. ed. ''Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography.'' (1986), very good, encyclopedic essays | * Peterson, Merrill D. ed. ''Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography.'' (1986), very good, encyclopedic essays | ||
* Schachner, Nathan. ''Thomas Jefferson: A Biography'' (1957) 1074 | * Schachner, Nathan. ''Thomas Jefferson: A Biography'' (1957) 1074 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11882040 online edition] | ||
===Special topics=== | |||
* Burstein, Andrew. ''Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello'' (2005) | |||
* McLaughlin, Jack. ''Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder'' (1988) | |||
* Sheehan, Bernard W. ''Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian'' (1973) | |||
===Politics and diplomacy=== | ===Politics and diplomacy=== | ||
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* Onuf, Peter S. ''The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.'' (2007). 281 pp. | * Onuf, Peter S. ''The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.'' (2007). 281 pp. | ||
* Wiltse, Charles Maurice. ''The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Democracy'' (1935) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-jeffersonian-tradition-in-american-democracy-by-charles-maurice-wiltse.jsp online edition] | * Wiltse, Charles Maurice. ''The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Democracy'' (1935) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-jeffersonian-tradition-in-american-democracy-by-charles-maurice-wiltse.jsp online edition] | ||
===Race and slavery=== | ===Race, gender and slavery=== | ||
* Dierksheide, Christa. "'The great improvement and civilization of that race': Jefferson and the 'Amelioration' of Slavery, ca. 1770–1826," ''Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 6#1 Spring 2008, pp. 165-197 in [[Project Muse]] | * Dierksheide, Christa. "'The great improvement and civilization of that race': Jefferson and the 'Amelioration' of Slavery, ca. 1770–1826," ''Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' 6#1 Spring 2008, pp. 165-197 in [[Project Muse]] | ||
* Finkelman, Paul. "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery: 'Treason against the Hopes of the World,'" in Peter Onuf, ed., ''Jeffersonian Legacies'' (1993), 181–224 | * Finkelman, Paul. "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery: 'Treason against the Hopes of the World,'" in Peter Onuf, ed., ''Jeffersonian Legacies'' (1993), 181–224 | ||
* Gordon-Reed, Annette. ''Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy'' (1997) | |||
* Helo, Ari and Onuf, Peter. "Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery." ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 2003 60(3): 583-614. Issn: 0043-5597 Fulltext: [[History Cooperative]] | * Helo, Ari and Onuf, Peter. "Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery." ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 2003 60(3): 583-614. Issn: 0043-5597 Fulltext: [[History Cooperative]] | ||
* Kennedy, Roger G. ''Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase'' (2003). | * Kennedy, Roger G. ''Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase'' (2003). | ||
* Onuf, Peter S. "Every Generation Is an 'Independent Nation': Colonization, Miscegenation, and the Fate of Jefferson's Children," ''William and Mary Quarterly,'' 57 (Jan. 2000), 155–72. in [[History Cooperative]] | |||
* Stanton, Lucia C. "'Those Who Labor for My Happiness': Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves," in Peter Onuf, ed, ''Jeffersonian Legacies'' (1993) 147–80, | |||
* Steele, Brian. "Thomas Jefferson's Gender Frontier." ''The Journal of American History'' 95.1 (2008) :17-42 [http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.1/steele.html online] | |||
===Historiography, memorials and reputation=== | ===Historiography, memorials and reputation=== | ||
* McDonald, Robert M. S. "Thomas Jefferson's Changing Reputation as Author of the Declaration of Independence: The First Fifty Years," ''Journal of the Early Republic,'' Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 169-195 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3124951 in JSTOR] | |||
* Onuf, Peter ed. ''Jeffersonian Legacies'' (1993), scholarly essays [http://www.amazon.com/Jeffersonian-Legacies-Peter-S-Onuf/dp/0813914639/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197165718&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] | * Onuf, Peter ed. ''Jeffersonian Legacies'' (1993), scholarly essays [http://www.amazon.com/Jeffersonian-Legacies-Peter-S-Onuf/dp/0813914639/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197165718&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Onuf, Peter. "The Scholars' Jefferson," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 1993 50(4): 671-699; overview of historiography; [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597(199310)3%3A50%3A4%3C671%3ATSJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V in JSTOR] | * Onuf, Peter. "The Scholars' Jefferson," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 1993 50(4): 671-699; overview of historiography; [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597(199310)3%3A50%3A4%3C671%3ATSJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V in JSTOR] | ||
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Biography
- Adams, William Howard. The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson (1997).
- Bernstein, Richard B. Thomas Jefferson (2005) short biography excerpt and text search
- Cunningham, Noble E. Jr . In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1988, short biography) excerpt and text search
- Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1998), influential interpretive essays excerpt and text search
- Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition (1948), chapter on TJ online at ACLS e-books
- Kimball, Marie. Jefferson, War and Peace, 1776 to 1784 1947 online edition
- McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (1987) intellectual history approach to TJ's presidency
- Malone, Dumas. v. 1, "Jefferson the Virginian (1948); v. 2 Jefferson and the Rights of man; v.3: Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty ; v. 4: Jefferson the President: First Term 1801 - 1805; v. 5: Jefferson the President: Second term, 1805-1809; v.6: The Sage of Monticello (1948-70), the standard scholarly biography; short bio by Malone
- Onuf, Peter, ed. Jeffersonian Legacies (1993), essays by scholars
- Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (1986), long, detailed biography by leading scholar; online edition; also excerpt and text search
- Peterson, Merrill D. ed. Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography. (1986), very good, encyclopedic essays
- Schachner, Nathan. Thomas Jefferson: A Biography (1957) 1074 pp. online edition
Special topics
- Burstein, Andrew. Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello (2005)
- McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder (1988)
- Sheehan, Bernard W. Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian (1973)
Politics and diplomacy
- Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson. Library of America edition, (1986).
- Bassett, John Spencer. The Federalist System, 1789-1801 (1906) old scholarly survey; online edition
- Bowers, Claude G. Jefferson and Hamilton (1925), a slashing attack on Hamilton as unamerican aristocrat
- Channing, Edward. The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811 (1906) full text online* Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. Jeffersonian Republicans: The Formation of Party Organization: 1789–1801 (1957), highly detailed party history
- Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power: Party Operations 1801–1809 (1963), highly detailed party history
- Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Process of Government Under Jefferson (1978)
- Dawson, Matthew Q. Partisanship and the Birth of America's Second Party, 1796-1800: Stop the Wheels of Government. Greenwood, (2000) online version
- Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism. (1993), the most advanced history of politics in 1790s online edition
- Ferling, John. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 Oxford University Press, 2004 online edition
- Finkelman, Paul, ed. Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 1754–1829 ed. by (2005), 1600 pp.
- Koch, Adrienne. Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. (1943) online edition
- Miller, John C. The Federalist Era: 1789-1801 (1960), scholarly survey
- Rodriguez, Junius, ed. The Louisiana Purchase: An Encyclopedia (2002)
- Sharp, James. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis. (1995), survey of politics in 1790s
- Smelser, Marshall. The Democratic Republic: 1801-1815 (1968) good one-volume history of TJ's presidency and Madison's;
- Tucker, Robert W. and David C. Hendrickson. Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (1992) best guide to foreign policy excerpt and text search
- Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. (2005), broad-scale interpretation of political history
Political philosophy
- Armitage, David. "The Declaration of Independence in World Context." Magazine of History 2004 18(3): 61-66. Issn: 0882-228x Fulltext: Ebsco
- Armitage, David. The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), 300pp excerpt and text search
- Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology (1978) excerpt and text search
- Beard, Charles A. The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915) online edition
- Becker, Carl. The Declaration of Independence: A Study on the History of Political Ideas (1922), online edition
- Brown; Stuart Gerry. The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison (1954)online.
- Buel, Richard. Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789–1815 (1972)
- Ellis, Joseph J., ed. What Did the Declaration Declare? Bedford Books, 1999. 110 pp. online review
- Griswold, A. Whitney. "The Agrarian Democracy of Thomas Jefferson," American Political Science Review 60. 4 (August 1946): 657–81. in JSTOR
- Hardt, Michael. "Jefferson and Democracy." American Quarterly, 2007 59(1): 41-78. Issn: 0003-0678 Fulltext: Project Muse
- Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1998), 336pp excerpt and text search
- Matthews, Richard K. The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson (1986) excerpt and text search
- Onuf, Peter. Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2001) excerpt and text search
- Onuf, Peter S. The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. (2007). 281 pp.
- Wiltse, Charles Maurice. The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Democracy (1935) online edition
Race, gender and slavery
- Dierksheide, Christa. "'The great improvement and civilization of that race': Jefferson and the 'Amelioration' of Slavery, ca. 1770–1826," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6#1 Spring 2008, pp. 165-197 in Project Muse
- Finkelman, Paul. "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery: 'Treason against the Hopes of the World,'" in Peter Onuf, ed., Jeffersonian Legacies (1993), 181–224
- Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1997)
- Helo, Ari and Onuf, Peter. "Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery." William and Mary Quarterly 2003 60(3): 583-614. Issn: 0043-5597 Fulltext: History Cooperative
- Kennedy, Roger G. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase (2003).
- Onuf, Peter S. "Every Generation Is an 'Independent Nation': Colonization, Miscegenation, and the Fate of Jefferson's Children," William and Mary Quarterly, 57 (Jan. 2000), 155–72. in History Cooperative
- Stanton, Lucia C. "'Those Who Labor for My Happiness': Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves," in Peter Onuf, ed, Jeffersonian Legacies (1993) 147–80,
- Steele, Brian. "Thomas Jefferson's Gender Frontier." The Journal of American History 95.1 (2008) :17-42 online
Historiography, memorials and reputation
- McDonald, Robert M. S. "Thomas Jefferson's Changing Reputation as Author of the Declaration of Independence: The First Fifty Years," Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 169-195 in JSTOR
- Onuf, Peter ed. Jeffersonian Legacies (1993), scholarly essays excerpt and text search
- Onuf, Peter. "The Scholars' Jefferson," William and Mary Quarterly 1993 50(4): 671-699; overview of historiography; in JSTOR
- Pasley, Jeffrey L. "Politics and the Misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's Modern Reputation: A Review Essay, Journal of Southern History (Nov 2006) 72#4
- Peterson, Merrill D. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1960) excerpt and text search
Primary sources
- Jefferson, Thomas. Writings (1984, Library of America); includes Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public and Private Papers, Addresses and Letters. 1600pp excerpt and text search
- Jefferson, Thomas. Political Writings, edited by Joyce Appleby and Terence Ball; Cambridge University Press, 1999 online edition
- Jeffersonian Cyclopedia 9000 quotes, well arranged
- Key Writings
- Jefferson documents; 1700 important letters and documents
- Jefferson Writings
- Jefferson Letters
- Jefferson complete writings and most letters; download the 5 meg zipped file
- Jefferson Papers; 23,000 letters online from Library of Congress