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.
Titles in this Series

The Work of the Heart
Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830
Martha Tomhave Blauvelt

Revolutionary Negotiations
Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America
Leonard J. Sadosky

The Gendered Republic
Reimagining Identity in the New Nation
Edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover

The Star-Spangled Republic
Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation
Eran Shalev

The Scientist Turned Spy
André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793
Patrick Spero

Sacred Capital
Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty
Hunter Price

Empire of Commerce
The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade
Susan Gaunt Stearns

Black Reason, White Feeling
The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition
Hannah Spahn

Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West
John Craig Hammond

The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith
Crafting Genius and Transatlantic Fame in the Romantic Era
Lucia McMahon

Replanting a Slave Society
The Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Patrick Luck

Jefferson on Display
Attire, Etiquette, and the Art of Presentation
G. S. Wilson

Rival Visions
How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic
Edited by Dustin Gish and Andrew Bibby

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
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
Edited by John A. Ragosta, Peter S. Onuf, and Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy

Thomas Jefferson's Lives
Biographers and the Battle for History
Edited by Robert M. S. McDonald

Patriotism and Piety
Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation
Jonathan J. Den Hartog

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
Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War
John A. Ruddiman

Pulpit and Nation
Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America
Spencer W. McBride

Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy
Founding West Point
Robert M. S. McDonald

Confounding Father
Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time
Robert M. S. McDonald

Jefferson's Body
A Corporeal Biography
Maurizio Valsania

Blood from the Sky
Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic
Adam Jortner

The Haitian Declaration of Independence
Creation, Context, and Legacy
Edited by Julia Gaffield

Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland
The Transatlantic Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood
Armin Mattes

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
George Washington and His Protégés
Edited by Robert M. S. McDonald

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
The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
Seth Cotlar

Cosmopolitan Patriots
Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution
Philipp Ziesche

Collegiate Republic
Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America
Margaret Sumner

Era of Experimentation
American Political Practices in the Early Republic
Daniel Peart

The Citizenship Revolution
Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804
Douglas Bradburn

Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions
Edited by Simon P. Newman and Peter S. Onuf

The Limits of Optimism
Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment
Maurizio Valsania

State and Citizen
British America and the Early United States
Edited by Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf

Nature's Man
Thomas Jefferson's Philosophical Anthropology
Maurizio Valsania

Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution
Michal Jan Rozbicki

Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America
Edited by Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole

Unnatural Rebellion
Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution
Ruma Chopra

Contesting Slavery
The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation
Edited by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason

Light and Liberty
Thomas Jefferson and the Power of Knowledge
edited by Robert M. S. McDonald

"Those Who Labor for My Happiness"
Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Lucia Stanton

Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History
Hannah Spahn

Unfinished Revolution
The Early American Republic in a British World
Sam W. Haynes

Remaking Custom
Law and Identity in the Early American Republic
Ellen Holmes Pearson

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
The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Clarence E. Walker

Empires of the Imagination
Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase
Peter J. Kastor and Francois Weil, eds.

Rome Reborn on Western Shores
Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic
Eran Shalev

Distant Revolutions
1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
Timothy Mason Roberts

Red Gentlemen and White Savages
Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier
David Andrew Nichols

Thomas Jefferson
Reputation and Legacy
Francis D. Cogliano

The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family
The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752–1830
Phillip Hamilton

"Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together"
Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775–1840
Albrecht Koschnik

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
Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt
Herbert E. Sloan

Jefferson's Empire
The Language of American Nationhood
Peter S. Onuf

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson
History, Memory, and Civic Culture
Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf