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Documentary Editions and Publications

Collected Papers Editions

Boyd, Julian P., et al, eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Vols. 1-. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950- LC Call Number: E 302 .J442 1950a

Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. The Works of Thomas Jefferson. 12 vols. New York; London: G.P. Putnam's Sons and The Knickerbocker Press, 1904. LC Call Number: E302 .J472

Peterson, Merrill, ed. Thomas Jefferson. Writings. New York: The Library of America, 1984. LC Call Number: E302 .J442 1984

Peterson, Merrill, ed. The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, c1993. LC Call Number: E302 .J442 1993c

Peterson, Merrill, ed. Thomas Jefferson. Public and Private Papers. New York: The Library of America, 1990. LC Call Number: E302 .J442 1990

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson , ed. The Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 4 vols. London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829; Charlottesville: F. Carr, and Co., 1829. LC Call Number: E302 .J46

Special Editions

Adams, Dickinson W., and Ruth W. Lester, eds. Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: "The Philosophy of Jesus" and "The Life and Morals of Jesus". The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. LC Call Number: BS2549 .J5 J43 1983

Bear, James A., Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. 2 Vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, with Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings. c1953; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976. LC Call Number: S451 .V8 J4 1976

Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824. With Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1944. LC Call Number: SB479 .J4

Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1988. LC Call Number: E322 .A4 1988

Chinard, Gilbert, ed. The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1926. LC Call Number: E302 .J442 1997

Howell, Wilbur Samuel, ed. Jefferson's Parliamentary Writings: "Parliamentary Pocket-Book" and A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. LC Call Number: KF4982 .J44 1988

McLaughlin, Jack, ed. To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Letters to a President. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. LC Call Number: E332.86 1991

Peden, William, ed. Thomas Jefferson. Notes on Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1955. LC Call Number: F230 .J5102 1955

Randolph, Sarah N. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. Randolph. c1871; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978. LC Call Number: E332.25 .R2 1978

Sawvel, Franklin B., ed. The Anas of Thomas Jefferson. 1903; New York: Da Capo Press, 1970. LC Call Number: E310 .J45 1970

Smith, James Morton, ed. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. 3 Vols. c1994; New York: Norton, 1995. LC Call Number: E332.88 .M33 1995

Wilson, Douglas L. , ed. Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. LC Call Number: E332.9 .C6 J44 1989

Wilson, Douglas L., ed. Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming.

Wilson, Douglas L, and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. Jefferson Abroad. Modern Library Edition. New York: Modern Library, 1999. LC Call Number: E332.45 .J44 1999

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Biographies and Essays

Albro, Sylvia R. and Holly H. Krueger. "The History, Examination and Conservation Treatment of the Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Institute of Paper Conservation, 6-9 April 1997, Jane Eagan, ed.. London: IPC, 1998

Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson, Statesman of Science. New York: Macmillan, 1990. LC Call Number: E332.2 .B37 1990

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. With a new preface. c1948; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1993. LC Call Number: B878 .B6 1993

Brodie, Fawn. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. New York: Norton, 1974. LC Call Number: E332 .B787

Bush, Alfred L. The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, Virginia: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1987. LC Call Number: 1962 Edition, N7628.J4 V58

Burstein, Andrew. The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. LC Call Number: E332 .B96 1996

Cunningham, Noble E. The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye: Portraits for the People, 1800-1809. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981. LC Call Number: N7628 .J4 C86

Cunningham, Noble E. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1987. LC Call Number: E332 .C95 1987

Dos Passos, John. The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson. Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. LC Call Number: E332 .D6

Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. LC Call Number: E332.2 .E45 1997

Ellis, Joseph J. "American Sphinx: The Contradictions of Thomas Jefferson." Civlization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress. November-December, 1997. LC Call Number: AS30 .C48

Hellenbrand, Harold. The Unfinished Revolution: Education and Politics in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson. Newark: University of Delaware Press ; London: Associated University Presses, c1990. LC Call Number: E332.2 .H45 1990

McKitrick, Eric. "The View from Jefferson's Camp,"The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1970. LC Call Number: AP2 .N6552

Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time. 6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948-1981. LC Call Number: E332 .M25

Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, Published with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, c1991. LC Call Number: E332.2 .M54 1991

Onuf, Peter S., ed. Jeffersonian Legacies. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993. Contents:

  • The Religious Pilgrimage of Thomas Jefferson, by Paul K. Conkin
  • Jefferson and the Republic of Letters, by Douglas L. Wilson
  • 'The Blessings of Domestic Society': Thomas Jefferson's Family and the Transformation of American Politics, by Jan Lewis
  • 'Those Who Labor for My Happiness': Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves, by Lucia C. Stanton
  • Jefferson and Slavery: 'Treason Against the Hopes of the World,' by Paul Finkelman
  • The Intellectual Reconstruction of Virginia in the Age of Jefferson, by Jack P. Greene
  • Putting Rights Talk in Its Place: The Summary View Revisited, by Stephen A. Conrad
  • 'The Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living,' by Herbert Sloan
  • Thomas Jefferson and the American Democratic Experience: The Origins of the Partisan Press, Popular Political Parties, and Public Opinion, by Michael Lienesch
  • Jefferson's Union and the Problem of Internal Improvements, by John Lauritz Larson
  • Jefferson and American Foreign Policy, by Walter Lafeber
  • The Trials and Tribulations of Thomas Jefferson, by Gordon S. Wood
  • The Strange Career of Thomas Jefferson: Race and Slavery in American Memory, 1943-1993, by Scot A. French and Edward L. Ayers

Onuf, Peter S. "The Scholars' Jefferson," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, L:4 (October 1993), 671-699. LC Call Number: F221 .W71

Peterson, Merrill. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. c1960; Charlotteville: University Press of Virginia, 1998 LC Call Number: E332.2 .P4 1998

Peterson, Merrill. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. LC Call Number: E332 .P45

Peterson, Merrill. Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. LC Call Number: E 332 .T43 1986

Randall, Henry S. The Life of Thomas Jefferson. 3 vols. New York: Derby and Jackson, 1858; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1888. LC Call Number: E332 .R19

Sheldon, Garrett Ward. The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. LC Call Number: E332.2 .S54 1991

Sloan, Herbert E. Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. LC Call Number: HJ8032.A2 S55 1995

Stuart, Reginald C. The Half-Way Pacifist: Thomas Jefferson's View of War. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1978. LC Call Number: E332.2 .S87

Wallace, Anthony F. C. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. LC Call Number: E93 .W18 1999

Wilson, Douglas L. Jefferson's Books. Monticello Monograph Series. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1986. LC Call Number: Z997 .J48 1996

Wilson, Douglas L. "Thomas Jefferson and the Character Issue," The Atlantic Monthly, 270:5 (November 1992), 57-74. LC Call Number: AP2 .A8

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Monticello

Bear, James A., ed. Jefferson at Monticello. Containing "Memoirs of a Monticello Slave," as Dictated to Charles Campbell by Isaac. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967. LC Call Number: E332.15 .B4

Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. LC Call Number: E332.2 .G67 1997

Langhorne, Elizabeth Coles. Monticello, a Family Story. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. LC Call Number: E332.74 .L36 1987

Lewis, Jan, and Peter S. Onuf, eds. Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. LC Call Number: E332.2 .S24 1999

McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello, the Biography of a Builder. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. LC Call Number: E332.2 .M43 1988

Peterson, Merrill, ed. Visitors to Monticello. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. LC Call Number: E332.74 .V57 1989

Stanton, Lucia. Slavery at Monticello. Monticello Monograph Series. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1996. LC Call Number: E332.2 S73 1996

Stein, Susan R. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. New York: H.N. Abrams, in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation,1993. LC Call Number: E332.2 .S84 1993

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Books for Young Readers

Barrett, Marvin. Meet Thomas Jefferson. New York: Random House, 1989. LC Call Number: E332.79 .B3 1989

Bober, Natalie S. Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain. New York: Atheneum, 1988. LC Call Number: E332.79 .B63 1988

Stefoff, Rebecca. Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United States. Ada, Oklahoma: Garrett Educational Corporation, 1988. LC Call Number: E332.79 .S73 1988

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The Colonial Period

Dewey, Frank L. Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. LC Call Number: KF363.J4 D48 1986

Kimball, Marie. Jefferson: The Road to Glory, 1743 to 1776. c1943; New York: Greenwood Press, 1977. LC Call Number: E332 .K5 1977

McColley, Robert. Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia. c1964; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. LC Call Number: E445 .V8 M12 1973

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The American Revolution

Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Charlottesville: Distributed by University Press of Virginia, c1988. LC Call Number: E263.V8 S45 1988

The Declaration of Independence

Boyd, Julian. The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of a Text. Ed. by Gerard W. Gawalt. Rev. ed. Charlottesville, Va.: International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello in Association with the Library of Congress, 1999. LC Call Number: E221 .B69 1999.

Fliegelman, Jay. Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. LC Call Number: E332.2 .F55 1993

Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Knopf, 1997. LC Call Number: E221 .M24 1997

Wills, Garry. Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978. LC Call Number: E221 .W64

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The Early Republic

Adams, William Howard. The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1997. LC Call Number: E332.45 .A32 1997

Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. LC Call Number: E99. O3 A46 1996

Bailyn, Bernard. "Thomas Jefferson: No American Should Come to Europe under 30 Years of Age." In Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence. New York: Knopf, 1990. LC Call Number: E208 .B2 1990

Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. LC Call Number: E302.1 .B2

Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power: Party Operations, 1801-1809. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1963. LC Call Number: JK 2316 .C82

Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Process of Government under Jefferson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. LC Call Number: JK180 .C86

Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. LC Call Number: E310 .E45 1993

Ellis, Richard E. The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. LC Call Number: KF5130 .E44

Johnstone, Robert M., Jr. Jefferson and the Presidency, Leadership in the Young Republic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. LC Call Number: E331 .J69

Kaplan, Lawrence S. Jefferson and France: An Essay on Politics and Political Ideas. c1967; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. LC Call Number: E332.45 .K3 1980

Koch, Adrienne. Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration. c1950; Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1986. LC Call Number: E332.2 .K63 1986

Levy, Leonard Williams. Jefferson & Civil Liberties: The Darker Side. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, c1963; Reprint, Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1989. LC Call Number: KF4749 .L484 1989

McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c1976. LC Call Number: E331 .M32

Matthews, Richard K. The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c1984. LC Call Number: E332.2 .M37 1984

Mayer, David N. The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. LC Call Number: E332.2 .M38 1994

Miller, Charles A. Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. LC Call Number: E 332.2 .M53 1988

Rice, Howard C. L'Hotel de Langeac, Jefferson's Paris Residence. Monticello: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1947. LC Call Number: NA7348 .P2 R5 1948

Sheehan, Bernard W. Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1973. LC Call Number: E93 .S54

Spivak, Burton. Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. LC Call Number: E331 .S68

Tucker, Robert W., and David C. Hendrickson. Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. LC Call Number: E332.45 .T83 1990

Sisson, Dan. The American Revolution of 1800. New York, Knopf, 1974. LC Call Number: E310 .S57 1974

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Related Web Sites

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Jamestown Rediscovery, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Foundation

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive, University of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, [manuscript], [1781-1784], Massachusetts Historical Society

University of Virginia Press

Virginia Records Selected Bibliography

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