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University of Virginia Press

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

Titles in this Series

The Work of the Heart

The Work of the Heart

Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830

Martha Tomhave Blauvelt

Revolutionary Negotiations

Revolutionary Negotiations

Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America

Leonard J. Sadosky

The Gendered Republic

The Gendered Republic

Reimagining Identity in the New Nation

Edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover

The Star-Spangled Republic

The Star-Spangled Republic

Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation

Eran Shalev

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

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 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