Auteur: Barbara B. Oberg

‘I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all?’ Jefferson muses in this volume. His answer: ‘I do not know that it is.’ Required by custom to be ‘entirely …

Under normal circumstances, Thomas Jefferson would have had more than two months to prepare for his presidency. However, since the House of Representatives finally settled a tied electoral vote only …

In Volume 34, covering May through July 1801, the story of Thomas Jefferson’s first presidential administration continues to unfold. He quickly begins to implement his objectives of economy and effic …

For the first two months covered by this volume, Thomas Jefferson is residing at Monticello, avoiding the ‘rather sickly’ season in the nation’s capital. His mountaintop house finally has a roof and …

This volume opens on 4 March 1803, the first day of Jefferson’s third year as president. Still shaken by the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, he confronts the potential political conse …

The Louisiana Purchase dominates the months covered in this volume. Jefferson departs for Monticello to enjoy a needed respite after the busy three and a half months he has just spent in the nation’s …

In the twenty-two months covered by this volume, Jefferson spent most of his time at Monticello, where in his short-lived retirement from office he turned in earnest to the renovation of his residenc …

During the thirteen months covered by this volume, Thomas Jefferson spent more than half of his time in Philadelphia serving as vice president under President John Adams and presiding over a Senate t …

As this volume opens, partisan politics in the United States are building to a crescendo with the approach of the presidential election. Working for a Republican victory, Jefferson consults frequentl …

Building on a quarter century of scholarship following the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the Age of the American Revolution, the engagingly written essays in this volume offer an updated …

The period covered by this volume brings to a conclusion Thomas Jefferson’s first year as president. On 8 December he communicates his first annual message to Congress: peace between France and Engla …

This volume opens on 4 March 1802, the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration as the nation’s third president, and closes on 30 June. In March, a delegation of Seneca Indians comes to W …

Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and all of August and September, he resides at Monticello …

This volume opens on 13 November 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 3 March 1803, the final day of his second year as president. The central issue of these months is the closing of …

This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the pl …