Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables x

Notes on Contributors xi

Abbreviations xvii

Introduction xix
Francis D. Cogliano

PART I JEFFERSON’S LIFE AND TIMES 1

1 Jefferson and Biography 3
Annette Gordon-Reed

2 Jefferson’s Virginia 16
Michael A. McDonnell

3 Thomas Jefferson and A Summary View of the Rights of British North America 32
Kristofer Ray

4 The Declaration of Independence 44
Robert G. Parkinson

5 “I have known”: Thomas Jefferson, Experience, and Notes on the State of Virginia 60
Peter Thompson

6 The Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom 75
John A. Ragosta

7 A Republican Reformation: Thomas Jefferson’s Civil Religion and the Separation of Church from State 91
Johann N.Neem

8 The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson 110
Iain McLean

9 Jefferson as Party Leader 128
Todd Estes

10 A Qualified Revolution: The Presidential Election of 1800 145
Joanne B. Freeman

11 The (Federalist?) Presidency of Thomas Jefferson 164
Robert M.S. McDonald

12 From “Floating Ardor” to the “Union of Sentiment”: Jefferson on the Relationship between Public Opinion and the Executive 184
Jeremy D. Bailey

13 Jefferson and International Relations 199
Leonard J. Sadosky

14 Jefferson in Retirement 218
Andrew Burstein

PART II THEMES 235

15 Thomas Jefferson and Native Americans 237
Andrew Cayton

16 Thomas Jefferson: Planter and Farmer 253
Lucia Stanton

17 Thomas Jefferson and Slavery 271
Cassandra Pybus

18 Sally Hemings 284
Catherine Kerrison

19 Thomas Jefferson and Affairs of the Heart 301
Billy L. Wayson

20 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams 318
Richard Samuelson

21 The Libraries of Thomas Jefferson 333
Kevin J. Hayes

22 Jefferson and the Law 349
David Thomas Konig

23 Thomas Jefferson, Cosmopolitanism, and the Enlightenment 364
Hannah Spahn

24 Thomas Jefferson and the Ancient World 380
Caroline Winterer

25 Jefferson and American Democracy 397
Peter S. Onuf

26 Thomas Jefferson and Constitutionalism 419
R.B. Bernstein

27 Political Economy 439
Max M. Edling

28 Jefferson and Education 457
Cameron Addis

PART III LEGACY 475

29 History, Politics, and the Self: Jefferson’s “Anas” and Autobiography 477
Matthew E. Crow

30 “For Generations to Come”: Creating the “Definitive” Jefferson Edition 491
Barbara B. Oberg and James P. McClure

31 Preservation and Education: Monticello and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation 510
Francis D. Cogliano

32 Jefferson’s Legacy: The Nation as Interpretative Community 526
Brian Steele

33 Thomas Jefferson in the Twenty-First Century 551
Jack N. Rakove

Bibliography 567

Index 595

About the Author

Francis D. Cogliano is Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in the history of revolutionary and early national America, Cogliano is the author or editor of several books on American history, including Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy (2006) and Revolutionary America: A Political History (2000, 2009).

Reviews

A marvelous collection of authoritative and well-writtenessays on nearly every aspect of Jefferson s life and legacy.Compiling and editing the works of such a variety of scholars is noeasy task, and Frank D. Cogliano deserves the highestpraise. (Expofairs, 14 May 2013)