Thomas Jefferson Bibliography

Adams, Henry. History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson. Literary Classics of the United States, 1986.

Appleby, Joyce. Thomas Jefferson. Henry Holt & Company, 2003.

Appleby, Joyce and Hunt, Lynn and Jacob, Margaret. Telling the Truth About History. W. W. Norton, 1994.

Bailyn, Bernard. Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence. Random House, 1990.

Bedini, Silvio. Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science. McMillan, 1990.

Beran, Michael Knox. Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind. Free Press, 2003.

Bernstein, R. B. Jefferson. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Billington, James H. (ed.) Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty. Penguin Putnam, 2000.

Boorstin, Daniel. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. Henry Holt, 1948.

Brodie, Fawn. M. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. Bantam Books, 1975.

Burstein, Andrew. The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist. University Press of Virginia, 1995.

Burstein, Andrew. Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello. Basic Books, 2005.

Cerami, Charles A. Jefferson's Great Gamble. Source Books, Inc., 2003.

Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

Gaustad, Edwin S. Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson. Erdmans, 1996.

Gilman, Carolyn. Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide. Smithsonian Books, 2003.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Halliday, E. M. Understanding Thomas Jefferson. Harper Collins, 2001.

Hart, Gary. Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Hatch, Peter J. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello. University of Virginia Press, 1998.

Hofstader, Richard. The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. Vintage Books, 1989.

Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. The Library of America, 1984.

Lewis, Jan. The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia. Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time. Little Brown, 1948-1974.

Martin, Edwin. Thomas Jefferson: Scientist. Henry Schuman, 1952.

McLaughlin, Castle. Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection. University of Washington Press, 2003.

McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder. Henry Holt.

SNock, Albert J. Jefferson. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1926.

Onuf, Peter S., ed. Jeffersonian Legacies. University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Onuf, Peter and Lewis, Jan., eds. Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture. University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Onuf, Peter S. Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Peterson, Merrill D. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. University Press of Virginia, 1998.

_____. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1970.

_____. (ed.) Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986.

Sloan, Herbert E. Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. OxfordUniverstity Press, 1995.

Prothero, Stephen R. American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003.

Smith, Page. Jefferson: A Revealing Biography. McGraw-Hill, 1976.

Stein, Susan R. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. H. N. Abrams, 1993.

Stanton, Lucia and Wilson, Douglas, eds. Jefferson Abroad. Modern Library, 1999.

Stanton, Lucia. Slavery at Monticello. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1996.

Trees, Andrew. The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character. Princeton University Press, 2004.

Vidal, Gore. Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams and Jefferson. Yale University Press, 2003.

Wilkins, Roger. Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. Beacon Press, 2001.

Wills, Gary. Mr. Jefferson's Universtiy. Natonal Geographic, 2002.

Wills, Gary. Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power. Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Packet to Participants

Appleby, Joyce. "Defining His Presidency" in Thomas Jefferson, Henry Holt & Company, 2003.” in The Americans: The National Experience. Vintage Books, 1965.

Beran, Michael. "Prologue," in Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind. Free Press, 2003.” in George Washington In And As Culture, AMS Press, Inc., 2001.

Ellis, Joseph. "Why Jefferson Lives: A Meditation on the Man and the Myth" in Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. "Thomas Jefferson and the Boundaries of American Civilization in" Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty.

Hofstader, Richard. "Thomas Jefferson: The Aristocrat as Democrat," in Hofstader, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. Vintage, 1989,

Lewis, Jan. "The White Jeffersons" in Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture. University Press of Virginia, 1999

Onuf, Peter. "To Declare Them A Free And Independent People," in Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Sloan, Herbert. "Introuction" to Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt.

Stanton, Lucia. "Preface" in Jefferson Abroad. Modern Library, 1999.

Videos

Jefferson's Blood. Frontline Documentary: Clay Jensinson Video

C-Span Interview with Annette Gordon-Reed

Thomas Jefferson. A Film by Ken Burns

Jefferson in Paris

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