Jeffersonian America

This series aims to illuminate the American republic’s formative decades by publishing the best new scholarship in the field. Younger and established scholars address the critical social, cultural, and political issues that faced the founding generations as they sought to establish a nation.

Series Editors: Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf, Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, Robert G. Parkinson
UVA Editor(s): Nadine Zimmerli

Books in this Series

The Scientist Turned Spy
The Scientist Turned Spy
André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793
Patrick Spero
Sacred Capital
Sacred Capital
Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty
Hunter Price
Empire of Commerce
Empire of Commerce
The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade
Susan Gaunt Stearns
Black Reason, White Feeling
Black Reason, White Feeling
The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition
Hannah Spahn
Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West
Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West
John Craig Hammond
The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith
The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith
Crafting Genius and Transatlantic Fame in the Romantic Era
Lucia McMahon
Replanting a Slave Society
Replanting a Slave Society
The Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Patrick Luck
Jefferson on Display
Jefferson on Display
Attire, Etiquette, and the Art of Presentation
G. S. Wilson
Rival Visions
Rival Visions
How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic
Edited by Dustin Gish and Andrew Bibby
Revolutionary Prophecies
Revolutionary Prophecies
The Founders and America’s Future
Edited by Robert M. S. McDonald and Peter S. Onuf. Afterword by Joanne B. Freeman
Jeffersonians in Power
Jeffersonians in Power
The Rhetoric of Opposition Meets the Realities of Governing
Edited by Joanne B. Freeman and Johann N. Neem
The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University
The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University
Edited by John A. Ragosta, Peter S. Onuf, and Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy
Thomas Jefferson's Lives
Thomas Jefferson's Lives
Biographers and the Battle for History
Edited by Robert M. S. McDonald
Patriotism and Piety
Patriotism and Piety
Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation
Jonathan J. Den Hartog
The Queen of America
The Queen of America
Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison
Mary Cutts. Edited by Catherine Allgor. Foreword by Cokie Roberts
Becoming Men of Some Consequence
Becoming Men of Some Consequence
Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War
John A. Ruddiman
Pulpit and Nation
Pulpit and Nation
Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America
Spencer W. McBride
Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy
Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy
Founding West Point
Robert M. S. McDonald
Confounding Father
Confounding Father
Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time
Robert M. S. McDonald
Jefferson's Body
Jefferson's Body
A Corporeal Biography
Maurizio Valsania
Blood from the Sky
Blood from the Sky
Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic
Adam Jortner
The Haitian Declaration of Independence
The Haitian Declaration of Independence
Creation, Context, and Legacy
Edited by Julia Gaffield
Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland
Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland
The Transatlantic Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood
Armin Mattes
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy
The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era
Edited by Patrick Griffin, Robert G. Ingram, Peter S. Onuf, and Brian Schoen
Sons of the Father
Sons of the Father
George Washington and His Protégés
Edited by Robert M. S. McDonald
Religious Freedom
Religious Freedom
Jefferson’s Legacy, America's Creed
John Ragosta
Amelioration and Empire
Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
Christa Dierksheide
Amelioration and Empire
Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
Christa Dierksheide
Tom Paine's America
Tom Paine's America
The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
Seth Cotlar
Cosmopolitan Patriots
Cosmopolitan Patriots
Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution
Philipp Ziesche
Collegiate Republic
Collegiate Republic
Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America
Margaret Sumner
Era of Experimentation
Era of Experimentation
American Political Practices in the Early Republic
Daniel Peart
The Citizenship Revolution
The Citizenship Revolution
Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804
Douglas Bradburn
Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions
Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions
Edited by Simon P. Newman and Peter S. Onuf
The Limits of Optimism
The Limits of Optimism
Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment
Maurizio Valsania
State and Citizen
State and Citizen
British America and the Early United States
Edited by Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf
Nature's Man
Nature's Man
Thomas Jefferson's Philosophical Anthropology
Maurizio Valsania
Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution
Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution
Michal Jan Rozbicki
Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America
Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America
Edited by Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole
Unnatural Rebellion
Unnatural Rebellion
Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution
Ruma Chopra
Contesting Slavery
Contesting Slavery
The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation
Edited by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason
Light and Liberty
Light and Liberty
Thomas Jefferson and the Power of Knowledge
edited by Robert M. S. McDonald
"Those Who Labor for My Happiness"
"Those Who Labor for My Happiness"
Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Lucia Stanton
Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History
Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History
Hannah Spahn
Unfinished Revolution
Unfinished Revolution
The Early American Republic in a British World
Sam W. Haynes
Remaking Custom
Remaking Custom
Law and Identity in the Early American Republic
Ellen Holmes Pearson
Old World, New World
Old World, New World
America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson
Edited by Leonard J. Sadosky, Peter Nicolaisen, Peter S. Onuf, and Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy
Mongrel Nation
Mongrel Nation
The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Clarence E. Walker
Revolutionary Negotiations
Revolutionary Negotiations
Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America
Leonard J. Sadosky
Empires of the Imagination
Empires of the Imagination
Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase
Peter J. Kastor and Francois Weil, eds.
Rome Reborn on Western Shores
Rome Reborn on Western Shores
Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic
Eran Shalev
Distant Revolutions
Distant Revolutions
1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
Timothy Mason Roberts
Red Gentlemen and White Savages
Red Gentlemen and White Savages
Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier
David Andrew Nichols
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Reputation and Legacy
Francis D. Cogliano
The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family
The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family
The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752–1830
Phillip Hamilton
"Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together"
"Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together"
Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775–1840
Albrecht Koschnik
The Work of the Heart
The Work of the Heart
Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830
Martha Tomhave Blauvelt
The Revolution of 1800
The Revolution of 1800
Democracy, Race, and the New Republic
Edited by James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, and Peter S. Onuf
Principle and Interest
Principle and Interest
Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt
Herbert E. Sloan
Jefferson's Empire
Jefferson's Empire
The Language of American Nationhood
Peter S. Onuf
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson
History, Memory, and Civic Culture
Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf
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