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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)  
* 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   
* 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]  
* 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]
* 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. 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 pgs. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11882040 online edition]
* 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===
* [[Henry Adams|Adams, Henry]]. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=iE-pz-rhsf0C&printsec=frontcover History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson]''.  New York: Library of America, 1986.  
* [[Henry Adams|Adams, Henry]]. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=iE-pz-rhsf0C&printsec=frontcover 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; [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0qz0JCJMPjp9xrk7lF2zF07&id=LAoOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=toc&dq=bassett+%22federalist+system%22&sig=CPcsG1aOwgXiDZ7TIRpl1bKO4P0 online edition]
*  Bassett, John Spencer. ''The Federalist System, 1789-1801'' (1906) old scholarly survey; [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0qz0JCJMPjp9xrk7lF2zF07&id=LAoOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=toc&dq=bassett+%22federalist+system%22&sig=CPcsG1aOwgXiDZ7TIRpl1bKO4P0 online edition]
* Bowers, Claude G. ''Jefferson and Hamilton'' (1925), a slashing attack on Hamilton as unamerican aristocrat  
* Bowers, Claude G. ''Jefferson and Hamilton'' (1925), a slashing attack on Hamilton as unamerican aristocrat  
* [[Edward Channing|Channing, Edward]].  [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBYOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811].  Vol. 12 of The American Nation: A History, Series, edited by [[Albert Bushnell Hart]].  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906.
* Channing, Edward.  ''The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811'' (1906) [http://books.google.com/books?id=BQcOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Jeffersonian+intitle:System+intitle:1801-1811&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0 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. ''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 Jeffersonian Republicans in Power: Party Operations 1801–1809'' (1963), highly detailed party history
* Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. ''The Process of Government Under Jefferson'' (1978)
* Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. ''The Process of Government Under Jefferson'' (1978)
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===Political philosophy===
===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  [http://www.amazon.com/Declaration-Independence-Global-History/dp/0674022823/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212623939&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Banning, Lance. ''The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology'' (1978) [http://www.amazon.com/Jeffersonian-Persuasion-Evolution-Party-Ideology/dp/0801492009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195466092&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Banning, Lance. ''The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology'' (1978) [http://www.amazon.com/Jeffersonian-Persuasion-Evolution-Party-Ideology/dp/0801492009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195466092&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Beard, Charles A. ''The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy'' (1915) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=65989719 online edition]
* Beard, Charles A. ''The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy'' (1915) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=65989719 online edition]
* Becker, Carl. ''The Declaration of Independence: A Study on the History of Political Ideas'' (1922), [http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Book.php?recordID=0034 online edition]
* Brown; Stuart Gerry. ''The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison'' (1954)[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11814508 online].  
* Brown; Stuart Gerry. ''The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison'' (1954)[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11814508 online].  
* Buel, Richard. ''Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789–1815'' (1972)
* 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.  [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28656930163675 online review]
* Griswold, A. Whitney. "The Agrarian Democracy of Thomas Jefferson," ''American Political Science Review'' 60. 4 (August 1946): 657–81. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554(194608)40%3A4%3C657%3ATADOTJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I in JSTOR]
* Griswold, A. Whitney. "The Agrarian Democracy of Thomas Jefferson," ''American Political Science Review'' 60. 4 (August 1946): 657–81. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554(194608)40%3A4%3C657%3ATADOTJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I in JSTOR]
* Hardt, Michael. "Jefferson and Democracy." ''American Quarterly,'' 2007 59(1): 41-78. Issn: 0003-0678 Fulltext: [[Project Muse]]
* 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 [http://www.amazon.com/American-Scripture-Making-Declaration-Independence/dp/0679779086 excerpt and text search]
* Matthews, Richard K. ''The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson'' (1986) [http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Politics-Thomas-Jefferson/dp/0700602933 excerpt and text search] 
* Onuf, Peter. ''Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Jeffersons-Empire-Language-Nationhood-Jeffersonian/dp/0813920906/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197165718&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]  
* Onuf, Peter. ''Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Jeffersons-Empire-Language-Nationhood-Jeffersonian/dp/0813920906/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197165718&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]  
* 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, 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 [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]
* Pasley, Jeffrey L. "Politics and the Misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's Modern Reputation: A Review Essay, ''Journal of Southern History'' (Nov 2006) 72#4
* 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)  
* Peterson, Merrill D. ''The Jefferson Image in the American Mind'' (1960) [http://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Image-American-Mind/dp/0813918510/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203807519&sr=8-10 excerpt and text search]


===Primary sources===
===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
* Jefferson, Thomas.  ''Writings'' (1984, Library of America); includes Autobiography, ''Notes on the State of Virginia,'' Public and Private Papers, Addresses and Letters. 1600pp [http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-Writings-Autobiography-Addresses/dp/094045016X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203807519&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
* Jefferson, Thomas. ''Political Writings,'' edited by Joyce Appleby and  Terence Ball; Cambridge University Press, 1999 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107255488 online edition]
* Jefferson, Thomas. ''Political Writings,'' edited by Joyce Appleby and  Terence Ball; Cambridge University Press, 1999 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107255488 online edition]
*[http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/foley/ ''Jeffersonian Cyclopedia'' 9000 quotes, well arranged]
*[http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/archives/documents/frame_ih198172.htm Key Writings]
*[http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/texts/ Jefferson documents; 1700 important letters and documents]
*[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/jeffpap.htm Jefferson Writings]
*[http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jeflxx.htm Jefferson Letters]
*[http://www.constitution.org/tj/tj-categ.htm Jefferson complete writings and most letters; download the 5 meg zipped file]
*[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/index.html Jefferson Papers; 23,000 letters online from Library of Congress]

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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

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