Reference: 422
Author: Faber, Doris
Title: "Jane Randolph Jefferson"
Publication: Mothers of American Presidents
Publisher: New American Library
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1968)
Extent: 232-35.

Notes: Sketchy, dwelling upon TJ's apparent "coldness" toward his mother.

Reference: 2224
Author: Fabian, Bernhard
Title: "Jefferson's Notes on Virginia: The Genesis of Query xvii, The different religions received into that State?"
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 12
Date: (1955)
Extent: 124-38

Notes: TJ's plea for religious liberty in this section embodies the substance of the argument of 1776 in support of his Resolutions for Disestablishing the Church of England and for Repealing Laws Interfering with Freedom of Worship.

Reference: 1243
Author: Fagan, Brian M.
Title: “The First American Archaeologist,” in Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries .
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1996)
Extent: 383-86.

Notes: Brief note on TJ as pioneering stratigraphic excavator, with the relevant passage from Notes describing the exploration of the Indian mound. “A century was to pass before archaeological examinations were reported so thoroughly.

Reference: 1591
Author: Fahey, John H.
Title: The Principles of Thomas Jefferson and Their Application to Present Day Problems
Publisher: National Broadcasting Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1931)
Extent: pp. 25

Notes: An address on the anniversary of TJ's birth; TJ was an antimonopolist and opposed the concentration of economic power.

Reference: 2780
Author: Fahy, Everett P., Jr.
Title: "The Sully Portrait of Jefferson."
Publication: Univ. of Virginia Magazine
Volume: 124
Date: (1962)
Extent: 22-24

Notes: History of Sully's two portraits, the life study and the full length portrait.

Reference: 1158
Author: Fairbanks, Rick
Title: “The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The Role of Theological Claims in the Argument of the Declaration of Independence,”
Publication: Journal of Law and Religion
Volume: 11
Date: (1995)
Extent: 551-589.

Notes: Argues that the Declaration reveals an unresolved tension “between Jefferson's naturalism and his desire to use traditional theological notions. ” However, the Declaration is not based on Judeo-Christian principles, nor is it a wholly secular document. This tension undermines subsequent attempts to interpret the Declaration as essentially one or the other. Pays particular attention to refuting arguments put forward by Michael McConnell.

Reference: 2781
Author: Fairley, Margaret Tynes
Title: Mr. Jefferson and the Crocus
Publication: The Author
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1952)
Extent: pp. 12

Notes: Contains four poems on TJ.

Reference: 141
Author: Falk, Richard
Title: "Beyond Internationalism"
Publication: The End of the World Order: Essays on Normative International Relations
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Place of Publication: Princeton:
Date: (1983)
Extent: 105-41.

Notes: Argues that "the Jeffersonian perspective on America's role in the world is suggestive, although no more than that, for those who favor a value-oriented foreign policy with roots in the historical past and that can yet respond to likely discontinuities in the probable future." TJ placed his hopes and faith in an America dedicated to liberty as well as to independence. His importance today, symbolic rather than literal, owes to his recognition of the dangers in the materialist cult of progress, of the need for a balanced social and economic order in which rural, agrarian patterns are not displaced by urban and industrial modes, and of the need to trust people to care for themselves.

Reference: 725
Author: Falkowski, James E.
Title: "Secessionary Self-Determination: A Jeffersonian Perspective."
Publication: Boston University International Law Journal
Volume: 9
Date: (1991)
Extent: 209-42

Notes: Examines the historical development of the doctrine of self-determination of peoples, and finds that in the American perspective it has been profoundly influenced by TJ. Argues that natural law theory shows how to resolve the dilemma between the right of all peoples to political self-determination and the principle in international law that the territorial integrity of states should be respected. Not particularly informative about TJ.

Reference: 1244
Author: Fanning, Kathryn
Title: “American Temples: Presidential Memorials of the American Renaissance.”
Publication: Ph. D. dissertation, University of Virginia
Publication: DAI-A 57/08, 3299
Date: (1996)
Extent: Pp. 533.

Notes: Study of the memorials built for American Presidents between 1890 and 1940, including Grant, McKinley, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harding, and TJ. Finds that these memorials were different from earlier and later monuments and expressed a turn-of-the-century faith that the promise long inherent in western civilization was coming to maturity in America. Additionally, in view of the absence of a long history for the United States, these memorials created the illusion of a timeless heritage. Concludes with a consideration of the controversy surrounding the Jefferson Monument and how it signaled the eventual rejection of such monuments.

Reference: 423
Author: Faris, John T.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Statesman"
Publication: Makers of Our History
Publisher: Ginn
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1917)
Extent: 68-79.

Notes: School text; only one paragraph on his presidency.

Reference: 1592
Author: Farley, James A.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Federal Judiciary; Address ... Before the Alumni Boston University Law School, April 22, 1937
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1937)
Extent: pp.8

Notes: Also in Congressional Record of May 3, 1937. The New Deal version of TJ's opposition to courts.

Reference: 2225
Author: Farnell, Robert Stewart
Title: "Positive Valuations of Politics and Governments in the Thought of the Five American Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Cornell Univ
Date: (1970)
Extent: pp. 238

Notes: TJ valued politics and was eager to give American citizens the chance to participate in politics at various levels, but he was decidedly "less enthusiastic in his valuation of government." DAI 31/09A, p. 4853.

Reference: 424
Author: Farnum, George R
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Apostle of Democracy."
Publication: Lawyer
Volume: 6
Date: (1942)
Extent: 13-14

Notes: An inspiration to loyal Americans.

Reference: 1330
Author: Farrell, James M.
Title: "The Speech Within: Trope and Performance in Daniel Webster's Eulogy to Adams and Jefferson" in Rhetoric and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century America , ed. Thomas W. Benson.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Place of Publication: East Lansing
Date: (1997)
Extent: 15-37.

Notes: Analysis of the rhetorical function of Webster's fictional speech that he credits to Adams at the 1776 Congress. It creates a counterbalance to his portrayal of TJ as the author of the Declaration, giving equal if not greater credit to Adams as the orator who persuaded Congress to accept the Declaration. Uses the rhetorical theory of Kenneth Burke to examine Webster's eulogy and its impact on historiography and national consciousness.

Reference: 2783
Author: Farrison, W. Edward
Title: "Clotel, Thomas Jefferson, and Sally Hemings."
Publication: College Language Association Journal
Volume: 17
Date: (1973)
Extent: 147-74

Notes: Good account of the development of the "Black Sal" legend and of the subsequent history of the Hemings family, but does not always treat sources critically.

Reference: 2784
Author: Farrison, William Edward
Title: "Introduction"
Publication: Clotel; or The President's Daughter, William Wells Brown
Publication: Citadel
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1969)
Extent: 7-11

Notes: Chronology of Clotel indicates TJ could not be father of Clotel or Althea.

Reference: 2785
Author: Farrison, W. Edward
Title: "Origins of Brown's Clotel."
Publication: Phylon
Volume: 15
Date: (1954)
Extent: 347-54

Notes: One source of William Wells Brown's novel was the Callender scandal about Sally Hemings.

Reference: 1329
Author: Faulkner, Robert K. M.
Title: "Jefferson and the Enlightened Science of Liberty"
Publication: Reason and Republicanism , ed. McDowell and Noble
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication: Lanham MD.
Date: (1997)
Extent: 31-52.

Notes: Argues that TJ's liberalism, based on Enlightenment commitment to science and liberty, "instructs in taking practical care of modern peoples," unlike modern critiques of the Enlightenment that are disabled because they are "obsessed with critical thinking." Sees science and liberty as mutually supportive in TJ's thought, growing out of a Lockean position and leading to support of a thinker like P. J. G. Cabanis, and not two separate strands. Rejects arguments that attempt to root Jeffersonian liberalism in the tradition of English Whig country party opposition, medieval natural law, classical thought, or a tradition of Western rationalism going back to Socrates. Somewhat incoherent argument and doesn't succeed in its apparent intention to justify the modern relevance of TJ's liberalism, as much as we might admire the intention.

Reference: 2786
Author: Faulkner, William Harrison
Title: "The University of Virginia; Thomas Jefferson Architect."
Publication: Indoors and Out
Volume: 3
Date: (1906)
Extent: 103-13

Notes: Illustrated account of TJ's plans.

Reference: 1593
Author: Fauntleroy, Cornelius H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Purchase of Louisiana."
Publication: The Commonwealth Magazine (St. Louis)
Volume: 2
Date: (1902)
Extent: 5-14

Notes: TJ's action was not the outcome of base commercialism nor of imperialism but of a sense of national self-preservation.

Reference: 2787
Author: Faust, Joan Lee
Title: "The Gardens at Monticello."
Publication: Americana
Volume: l
Date: (1973)
Extent: 6-8

Notes: Brief account of the flower gardens; illustrated.

Reference: 876
Author: Favretti, Rudy J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's `Ferme Ornée' at Monticello."
Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Volume: 103
Date: (1993)
Extent: 17-29.

Notes: TJ was the first in Virginia, if not all the colonies, to build on top of a mountain. His plans followed the contours of the land and used ideas of English landscape architects, whose books were in his library. He followed contemporary Virginia plantation practice by laying out zones of use, with ornamental gardens, then orchards and vegetable gardens, finally fields and pastures laid out in receding order from the plantation house at the center. TJ separated his zones of use by the roads of the various roundabouts that circled the hill; these roads were determined both by ease of use and by aesthetic considerations. Discusses the flower gardens and the ornamental grove, where TJ's plantings were selected for varying foliage texture and color as well as for the quality of their shade.

Reference: 142
Author: Fender, Stephen
Title: "The Declaration of Independence"
Publication: American Literature in Context, 1620-1830
Publisher: Methuen,
Place of Publication: London:
Date: (1983)
Extent: 97-121.

Notes: Observes that George III is arraigned as the emperor of dullness and reads Pope's Dunciad not as an influence per se but as an intertextual reference. Contends that "this intertextual reference to Augustan satire is the rhetorical equivalent of the Declaration's appeal to natural law," lifting the argument to a disinterested standard of order and chaos. Follows with a more conventional account of TJ's intellectual sources in Locke and the common sense philosophers and discusses themes of natural rights, liberty, etc.

Reference: 426
Author: Fenner, Mildred Sandison and Eleanor Fishburn
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Educator."
Publication: National Education Association Journal
Volume: 32
Date: (1943)
Extent: 99-100

Notes: Colorful but not very informative.

Reference: 427
Author: Fenner, Mildred Sandison and Eleanor C. Fishburn
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Pioneer American Educators
Publisher: National Education Association
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1944)
Extent: 9-16

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 194
Author: Ferguson, Robert A.
Title: "Mysterious Obligation: Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia"
Publication: Law and Letters in American Culture
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Place of Publication: Cambridge:
Date: (1984)
Extent: 34-58.

Notes: Rejecting descriptions of Notes as haphazard or unstructured, the author claims that TJ asserted his control over personal difficulties and national uncertainties by submerging them in a developmental sense of country. The legal philosophy of the Enlightenment from Grotius through Blackstone valued incremental structures of knowledge which gave TJ a structural and discursive model. Grotius's insistence upon separating discussion of instituted or positive law from treatment of natural law, accepted as a central premise in important works by Pufendorf and Burlamaqui, guided TJ's rearrangement and restructuring of Marbois's original set of queries. Behind the division between natural phenomena and social events lies a confidence in the power of natural law to provide a unifying context, and, in turn, behind this confidence in the ordering power of law lurk TJ's profound anxieties which are the "prevailing mood" of the text. Claims that TJ more than any other American in his generation insured "that a conception of higher law would dominate political discourse." The best essay on the imaginative consequences of TJ's legal knowledge.

Reference: 319
Author: Ferguson, Robert A.
Title: "`We Hold These Truths' Strategies of Control in the Literature of the Fathers"
Publication: Reconstructing American Literary History, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Volume: Harvard English Studies 13.
Date: (1986)
Extent: 1-28.

Notes: Asserting that "Silence is the vital interstice in a consensual literature," explores the way TJ, Franklin, Adams and others impose the text as higher reality in the interest of exerting hegemonic control in their society. The interpenetration of language, belief, and power becomes a means to control that which cannot be written about. TJ discussed passim suggestively if perhaps a bit glibly at times.

Reference: 428
Author: Ferguson, John and Tim Benton
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Open University Press
Place of Publication: Bletchley
Date: (1972)
Extent: pp. 79

Notes: British; prepared for the Age of Revolution Course Team.

Reference: 2788
Author: Ferguson, Eugene S.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Dry Docks."
Publication: American Neptune
Volume: 11
Date: (1951)
Extent: 108-14

Notes: Details, both technical and political, on TJ's proposal to build a covered drydock at Washington large enough to hold 12 Constitution-class frigates.

Reference: 2789
Author: Ferguson, Henry N.
Title: "The Man Who Saved Monticello."
Publication: American History Illustrated
Volume: 14
Date: (1980)
Extent: 20-27

Notes: On TJ, Monticello, and Uriah Phillips Levy's acquisition and renovation of it.

Reference: 2790
Author: Ferguson, Robert A.
Title: "'Mysterious Obligation': Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia."
Publication: American Literature
Volume: 52
Date: (1980)
Extent: 381-406

Notes: Argues that TJ's Notes is an attempt to control the chaos he felt to be around him in the early 1780's, and to understand its coherent structure we must recognize the way in which it "turns upon English common law and the great, humanistic legal compendia of the Enlightenment." Suggestive.

Reference: 1245
Author: Ferling, John E.
Title: “1796: The First Real Election,”
Publication: American History
Volume: 31
Date: (November/December, 1996)
Extent: 24-28, 65-66.

Notes: Discussion of the election of 1796, the first in which a party system played a role. Adams considered himself, and was considered by others, as the “heir apparent” to Washington, after the latter decided to retire from the presidency in 1796. TJ did not seek office, but neither did he say he would not accept the nomination. Hamilton and some other Federalists quietly tried to support Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina.

Reference: 1594
Author: Ferris, D. H.
Title: "Jefferson Made to Order."
Publication: Georgia Review
Volume: 10
Date: (1956)
Extent: 131-46

Notes: The New Dears "suggestion that Mr. Jefferson was a liberal is, of course, merely an absurd and very juvenile bit of apocrypha."

Reference: 2226
Author: Fesperman, Francis I.
Title: "Jefferson's Bible."
Publication: Ohio Journal of Religious Studies
Volume: 4
Date: (1976)
Extent: 78-88

Notes: Intelligent examination of TJ's beliefs, based upon a thoughtful discussion of The Life and Morals of Jesus. Places TJ somewhere between Priestley and Paine.

Reference: 429
Author: Fetter, Frank Whitson
Title: "The Revision of the Declaration of Independence in 1941."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 31
Date: (1974)
Extent: 133-38

Notes: Explains how and why the text of the Declaration was altered when it was inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in 1941.

Reference: 877
Author: Fields, Wayne
Title: "Jefferson's Second Home."
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 44
Date: (April, 1993)
Extent: 104-113.

Notes: On Poplar Forest and the restoration work underway there, with illustrative photos by Jill Enfield.

Reference: 430
Author: Fields, Joseph Edward
Title: "Birthplace of the Declaration."
Publication: Manuscripts
Volume: 7
Date: (1955)
Extent: 140-44

Notes: On the house where TJ drafted the Declaration.

Reference: 195
Author: Filippi, Mario
Title: "Jefferson y la Expansion de los EEEU."
Publisher: Historia y Vida [Spain].
Volume: 17
Date: (September, 1984)
Extent: 109-25.

Notes: Describes the westward development of the United States from settlement of the first English colonies. Portrays TJ as a central figure in encouraging U. S. expansion into the territory it now occupies. For a popular audience.

Reference: 878
Author: Filler, Martin
Title: "Designing President."
Publication: House and Garden
Volume: 165
Date: (April, 1993)
Extent: 112-19, 174.

Notes: The design and furnishing of Monticello. Illustrated.

Reference: 879
Author: Fineberg, Stephen
Title: "From improbus to impius : Jefferson and Buckingham's Epitaph."
Publication: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume: 26
Date: (1993)
Extent: 595-606.

Notes: Discusses TJ's (mis)quotation in his literary commonplace book of the Duke of Buckingham's epitaph. TJ knew Buckingham's revisions of Shakespeare and quoted from his two plays made out of Julius Caesar . Notes that the Buckingham epitaph occurs in the context of other quotations about the appropriate response to fate, a recurring concern in the commonplace book. TJ's conscious or unconscious revision of Buckingham's language points to his rejection of positions that depend upon revealed truth rather than on reason and a sense of one's responsibilities to others.

Reference: 880
Author: Fineberg, Stephen
Title: "The Music of Jefferson's Greek"
Publication: Classical Journal
Volume: 88
Date: (1993)
Extent: 359-74.

Notes: Well-informed study of TJ's interest in Greek language based upon an examination of his Greek Grammar, now in a private collection, his letter of Nov. 28, 1786, to Mme. de Tott, and his metaphoric reference to the “music” of the Greek language. The grammar was possibly originally Peter Jefferson's, and TJ used it as early as 1752; it also contains annotations in his mature hand, suggesting that he used it later in life as well. The section on Greek prosody is heavily annotated, and he apparently referred to it when he drafted a note on Greek prosody for Mme. de Tott. TJ's interest in the sound of Greek revived during his Paris years when he met several native Greeks and heard modern Greek.

Reference: 488
Author: Fink, Beatrice
Title: "Jefferson's Palatable Pleasures"
Publication: Voyage et Tourisme en Bourgogne, ed. Baridon et Chevignard
Publisher: Éditions universitaires de Dijon. Publications de L'Université de Bourgogne
Place of Publication: Dijon:
Volume: LXVI.
Date: (1988)
Extent: 131-40.

Notes: Discusses TJ's interests in food and wine, noting his efforts to introduce olive trees to America, his consistent interest in extending the range of comestible possibilities, and his use of the dinner table as a site for conversation and social bonding. TJ supposedly became aware of possibilities for the latter during his years in France.

Reference: 881
Author: Finkelman, Paul
Title: "Jefferson and Slavery: Treason Against the Hopes of the World," in Jeffersonian Legacies , ed. Onuf.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1993)
Extent: 181-221.

Notes: Argues that because TJ was the author of the Declaration of Independence he is required to be the leader of the best in his generation and able to transcend his economic interests and sectional background to implement the ideals he articulated. By this standard, TJ obviously failed. Claims that from 1769 on TJ learned not to open discussions of slavery that “might lead to unpleasant confrontations with his colleagues. His unwillingness to permit free blacks to remain in a republican, white society come because he was “Blinded by negrophobia and notions of black inferiority. ” Not only did TJ not lead his generation, he bore a great responsibility for the failure of the nation to realize its ideal of liberty for all. An extreme argument, making the worst case against TJ; reads a bit more like a prosecutorial indictment (complete with “fictitious” accounts of TJ's supposed motives and thoughts) than a balanced assessment. Nevertheless, it makes a case that needs to be stated, if only to be rebutted or modified.

Reference: 1053
Author: Finkelman, Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery: The Myth Goes On"
Publication: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume: 102
Date: (1994)
Extent: 193-228.

Notes: Criticizes historians speaking to both professional and popular audiences who have written of TJ in nearly hagiographic terms, especially for their failure to deal either honestly or rigorously with TJ's racism and involvement with slavery. Sees TJ as a deeply flawed even when judged against his own words and the standards of his time. Points out that TJ, despite his few criticisms of slavery, did nothing to bring it to an end. Condemns him finally for his “hatred of free blacks, his utter inability to understand the humanity of his slaves, and his unrestrained spending habits” that kept him dependent on the labor of others. The specific historiographic critique is shrewd and persuasive; this is a better essay than the author's 1993 essay to the same effect. However, there seems to be little if any understanding of TJ's life-long struggle with debt and its effect on his ownership of slaves; note Herbert Sloan's 1995 volume on this topic and its rather different analysis of TJ's spending. Also, in describing the standards of TJ's time, insufficient attention is paid to the full range of opinions about slavery: see Jon Kukla's essay in the same issue of this journal.

Reference: 431
Author: Finkelnburg, Gustavus A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Lawyer."
Publication: American Law Review
Volume: 39
Date: (1905)
Extent: 321-29

Notes: Surveys TJ's career as a lawyer; his belief in a "higher law" is evidence that he lived in "the romantic period of our history."

Reference: 1220
Author: Finkleman, Paul
Title: Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson .
Publisher: M. E. Sharpe
Place of Publication: Armonk, NY.
Date: (1996)
Extent: pp. xi, 227.

Notes: Argues for the central role of slavery in the era of the founding, including a neo-Garrisonian analysis of the Constitution as a pro-slavery document, a rejection of the prohibition of slavery clause in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 as mostly window-dressing, and two chapters on TJ's failure to act on his professed anti-slavery principles and on the failure of later historians to call his hypocrisy to account. Although this study is valuable for spotlighting the importance of slavery in the debates at the founding, it ignores almost every other issue or subordinates them to the one issue of slavery, and it does not make any effort to consider how variously the world might have looked to people of the founding generation. The two chapters on TJ are revisions of the author's 1993 and 1994 essays.

Reference: 436
Author: Firestone, Linda and Whit Morse
Title: The Firestone/Morse Guide to Jefferson's Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County
Publication: Good Life Publishers
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1977)
Extent: pp. 151

Notes: First 45 pages cover TJ, Monticello, and the Jeffersonian foundation of the Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 1595
Author: Fish, Carl Russell
Title: "Jefferson's Policy as to Public Office, 1801-1809"
Publication: The Civil Service and the Patronage
Publisher: Longmans Gree
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1905)
Extent: 29-51

Notes: Claims TJ was so clever in satisfying his own followers and in not alienating the masses of the opposition that patronage ceased to be an issue by 1809.

Reference: 462
Author: Fisher, Leonard Everett
Title: Monticello.
Publisher: Holiday House,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1988)
Extent: n.p.

Notes: Juvenile. Describes the planning, construction, and occupancy of TJ's dream home. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by the author.

Reference: 1596
Author: Fisher, Louis
Title: "The Efficiency Side of Separated Powers."
Publication: Journal of American Studies
Volume: 5
Date: (1971)
Extent: 113-31

Notes: Contends that TJ and other founding fathers advocated the principle of separation of powers not out of fear of executive power so much as out of a wish for greater administrative efficiency.

Reference: 2227
Author: Fisher, George P.
Title: "Jefferson and the Social Compact Theory."
Publication: American Historical Association Annual Report for 1893
Date: (1983)
Extent: 165-77

Notes: Contends that TJ enunciates Lockean social compact theory in the Declaration but offers a much more radical, "almost anarchical" version in his later statements about the earth belonging to the living.

Reference: 2228
Author: Fisher, Sydney George
Title: "The Twenty-eight Charges Against the King in the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: PMHB
Volume: 31
Date: (1907)
Extent: 257-303

Notes: Discusses the historical basis for the charges.

Reference: 2791
Author: Fisher, Marvin
Title: "An Answer to Jefferson on Manufactures."
Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 61
Date: (1962)
Extent: 345-53

Notes: Argues that the best answer to TJ's Query xix in Notes is found in the

Reference: 433
Author: Fishwick, Marshall
Title: "Dinner with Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: Ford Times
Volume: 66
Date: (1973)
Extent: 22-27

Notes: TJ as host.

Reference: 434
Author: Fishwick, Marshall
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Gentlemen of Virginia
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1961)
Extent: 125-43

Notes: Anecdotal.

Reference: 435
Author: Fiske, John
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Conservative Reformer"
Publication: Essays Historical and Literary
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1902)
Extent: 1:143-81

Notes: TJ is "the earnest but cool-headed representative of the rural English free-holders that won magna Charta and overthrew the usurpations of the Stuarts."

Reference: 196
Author: Fitch, James Marston
Title: "The Lawn: America's Greatest Architectural Achievement."
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 35
Date: (June/July, 1984)
Extent: 49-64.

Notes: Discusses TJ's architectural plans for the University of Virginia; TJ viewed architecture as both utilitarian and as a civilizing force. Well-illustrated, including frontal photographs of each of the ten pavilions.

Reference: A21
Author: Fitch, James Marston
Title: "Architects of Democracy: Jefferson and Wright"
Publication: Architecture and the Esthetics of Plenty
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1961)
Extent: 31-45.

Notes: Somewhat paradoxically praises TJ and Monticello for being "astonishingly modern" and defends him for using a classical idiom because "there was no need for novelty in architectural expression." Suggests one aspect of modern design in Monticello is the displacement of stairways and service routes from the center of the house. Sees TJ and Wright as sharing "a vision of the extended potentials of culture, a determination to employ it for the enrichment of the lives of their countrymen."

Reference: A22
Author: Fitch, James Marston
Title: "Jefferson, Good Genii of American Building"
Publication: American Building: The Forces That Shape It
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Place of Publication: Boston:
Date: (1948)
Extent: 31-37.

Notes: Focuses on TJ as architectural critic and guide; describes his vision of the university buildings as modern, functional, and ambitious. Suggests that he wished building in the new republic to be sound because that would increase social wealth, and he wanted it to be beautiful because "it shows so much--that is, the world would see our building and judge us by it." In the subsequent section on "The Roman Idiom" credits TJ's "pervasive and kindly genius" for encouraging a whole school of great American architects.

Reference: 1597
Author: Fitch, Robert E.
Title: "The American President as Philosopher-King."
Publication: New Republic
Volume: 135
Date: (1956)
Extent: 11-13

Notes: TJ's portrayal of George Washington suggests Eisenhower.

Reference: 700
Author: Fitzgerald, Carol B.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: A Bibliography.
Publisher: Meckler Publishing,
Date: (1991)

Notes: Volume 3 in "Meckler's Bibliographies of the Presidents of the U. S." Fairly basic and relatively limited. Useful for students.

Reference: 2792
Author: Fitzhugh, Thomas, ed.
Title: Letters of Thomas Jefferson Concerning Philology and the Classics
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1919)
Extent: pp. 75

Notes: About TJ's opinions on study of the classics and his educational plans for Virginia. "Reprinted from the Alumni Bulletin for April, 1918, October, 1918, and January and April, 1919."

Reference: 1021
Author: Fitzmorris, Bob, dir
Title: The Bill of Rights and Beyond: Thomas Jefferson's Perspective .
Publisher: Community Video Center
Place of Publication: Pikes Peak Library District
Date: (1994)
Extent: running time 121 min.

Notes: VHS videocassette, produced by Steven Antonuccio and Dave Rickert. TJ, as portrayed by Clay Jenkinson, talks about the Bill of Rights from a historical perspective in order to set the stage for panel discussions moderated by Bernard A. Margolis.

Reference: 249
Author: Fitzpatrick, James K.
Title: "Hamilton v. Jefferson"
Publication: God, Country, and the Supreme Court
Publisher: Regnery,
Place of Publication: Chicago:
Date: (1985)
Extent: 21-44.

Notes: Out of concern that America is becoming increasingly "de-Christianized" by liberal, secularist intellectuals, the "ACLU mentality," etc. argues that the First Amendment was really intended to promote freedom for religion. In this context, however, does not confront TJ's ideas about religious freedom and the wall of separation, but instead tries to rescue him for the conservative position as one determined to safeguard society against radical change. Unlike Hamilton, however, he was unwilling to admit the necessity for moral leadership and example of an elite. Relies primarily on secondary sources.

Reference: 438
Author: Fitzpatrick, F. B.
Title: "Helps for Grade Teachers: The Higher Grades. Things Worth Knowing about Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Extent: 365-66

Notes: Questions and answers.

Reference: 1598
Author: Fitzpatrick, John C.
Title: "The Manuscript from Which Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 55
Date: (1921)
Extent: 363-67

Notes: Rpt. in his The Spirit of the Revolution.... Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Describes a mss. in TJ's hand, endorsed "Constitution of Virginia first ideas of Th: J. communicated to a member of the Convention."

Reference: 1599
Author: Flanders, Henry
Title: "A Glance at Two of Our Presidents."
Publication: Lippincott's Magazine
Volume: 2
Date: (1868)
Extent: 261-71

Notes: Compares TJ and Adams as representative men of the American Revolution whose characters and careers bear closely on the origin of political parties in the U. S.

Reference: 829
Author: Fleigelman, Jay
Title: Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance .
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Place of Publication: Stanford
Date: (1993)
Extent: pp. xviii, 268.

Notes: Discusses the Declaration in the context of a new rhetorical ideal that emerged in the later eighteenth-century in which speakers were expected less narrowly to convince their audiences with their rational arguments than to engage their sympathy by performatively enacting thoughts and feelings as part of their delivery. Examines along the way TJ's interest in contemporary rhetorical and oratorical theory, his interest in Ossian, his rivalry with Patrick Henry, and his interest in music. An engaging book, written as one long statement without separate chapter divisions, it imitates to some extent the form it describes.

Reference: 406
Author: Fleming, Thomas
Title: "A Voice From Paris."
Publication: Boys Life.
Volume: 77
Date: (August 1987)
Extent: 12.

Notes: TJ disagrees with Madison, but finally gains his object with the Bill of Rights.

Reference: 1246
Author: Fleming, Thomas
Title: “Thomas Jefferson's Declaration,”
Publication: Boys' Life
Volume: 86
Date: (July, 1996)
Extent: 7.

Notes: Brief biographical note. TJ “meant all people had an equal right to be free and happy. ”

Reference: 439
Author: Fleming, Anne Taylor
Title: "Jefferson Swindle."
Publication: Newsweek
Volume: 85
Date: (1975)
Extent: 11

Notes: Accuses TJ of spoiling Americans by leading them to expect happiness as a birthright. Silly.

Reference: 440
Author: Fleming, Thomas
Title: "At Home With Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: Reader's Digest
Volume: 90
Date: (1968)
Extent: 170-76

Notes: Monticello described.

Reference: 441
Author: Fleming, Thomas
Title: "Jefferson at Monticello."
Publication: Boys' Life
Volume: 65
Date: (1975)
Extent: 32-35

Notes: no note

Reference: 442
Author: Fleming, Thomas
Title: The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Morrow
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1969)
Extent: 409

Notes: Popular biography; nothing new.

Reference: 443
Author: Fleming, Thomas
Title: "Monticello's Long Career: From Riches to Rags to Riches."
Publication: Smithsonian
Volume: 4
Date: (1973)
Extent: 62-69

Notes: Account of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation's successful effort to acquire and restore Monticello.

Reference: 444
Author: Fleming, Thomas J
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Grossett and Dunlap
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1971)
Extent: pp. 182

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 445
Author: Fleming, Thomas
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's New England Granddaughter."
Publication: Yankee
Volume: 41
Date: (1977)
Extent: 65-67, 140-48

Notes: On Ellen Randolph Coolidge.

Reference: 1600
Author: Fleming, Thomas J.
Title: "'A Scandalous, Malicious and Seditious Libel."'
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 19
Date: (1967)
Extent: 22-27, 100-06

Notes: Jeffersonian prosecution of Harry Croswell for libel; he was editor of the Federalist journal, The Wasp, of Hudson, N. Y. and was defended in court by Hamilton.

Reference: 2793
Author: Flexner, James Thomas
Title: "The Great Columbian Federal City."
Publication: American Art Journal
Volume: 2
Date: (1970)
Extent: 30-45

Notes: The general assumption that the plan of Washington, D. C. results from the cooperation of TJ and L'Enfant is wrong; TJ looked on disapprovingly and was pleased when L'Enfant was discharged.

Reference: 1601
Author: Flood, Lawrence G. and Jean Grossholtz
Title: "The Man on the Nickel: Does He Make Any Sense?"
Publication: Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly
Volume: 59
Date: (1975)
Extent: 88-91

Notes: Examines the contemporary relevance of TJ's political ideas. Many of them no longer apply and the only way to have equality as he wished is to contradict the principles of individualism and the right to acquire and own property. Attempts to be provocative, but not very thoughtful.

Reference: 171
Author: Flores, Dan L.
Title: Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman & Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press,
Place of Publication: Norman:
Date: (1984)
Extent: xx, 386.

Notes: The editor's introduction ( 3-90) describes fully TJ's interest in exploring the southern parts of the Louisiana Purchase and his negotiations with William Dunbar and Thomas Freeman to bring this about. Discusses as well his interest in natural history and his difficulty in finding competent naturalists to record material in this region. Informative about responses of the Spanish authorities who defined the southern borders of the Louisiana territory rather differently and were nervous about the activities of Aaron Burr. The author describes the limited geographical knowledge concerning the head of the Red River and notes that the Americans generally assumed it rose somewhere near Santa Fe and could open direct trade with that Spanish possession. Describes the 1806 expedition to explore the Red River by arranging in chronological order material from the journal and reports of Freeman and Peter Custis (the expedition's naturalist). Thoroughly annotated; a major source for this aspect of TJ's interest in the West.

Reference: 1602
Author: Flores, Dan L.
Title: "Rendezvous at Spanish Bluff: Jefferson's Red River Exploration."
Publication: Red River Valley Historical Review
Volume: 4
Date: (1979)
Extent: 4-26

Notes: Good account of plans to explore the Red River, particularly the freeman expedition of 1806; suggests that Spanish opposition here and the capture of Pike in 1807 put an end to TJ's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.

Reference: 446
Author: Flower, B. O.
Title: "Jefferson's Service to Civilization During the Founding of the Republic."
Publication: Arena
Volume: 29
Date: (1903)
Extent: 500-18

Notes: TJ established "the reign of popular government and robust Americanism."

Reference: 447
Author: Flower, Milton E.
Title: "Letter from Henry S. Randall to James Parton on Jefferson and the 'Dusky Sally Story"'
Publication: James Parton, The Father of Modern Biography
Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Durham, NC
Date: (1951)
Extent: 236-39

Notes: Prints in full the letter accusing Peter Carr of being Sally Hemings' lover; Randall's authority was Thomas Jefferson Randolph.

Reference: 1603
Author: Floyd, Mildred D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Atlanta Univ
Place of Publication: Atlanta
Date: (1951)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 726
Author: Fohlen, Claude.
Title: "Une Amitié née de la Révolution: Franklin et Jefferson," in
Publication: eds. Gerard Hugues and Daniel Royot, Benjamin Franklin: Des Lumières a Nos Jours.
Publisher: Didier
Place of Publication: Lyon
Date: (1991)
Extent: 33-41.

Notes: Compares Franklin and TJ as the initiators of Franco-American diplomatic relations and as men of the Enlightenment. Franklin cannily affected a simplicity and variously exercised his seductive talents on the ladies of Paris, the officers of the King, and the people at large. TJ was cooler, more aristocratic, a diplomatist better suited to the particular years he was in residence. Although they had a common interest in science, Franklin was more interested in the physical sciences, TJ in the natural sciences.

Reference: 768
Author: Fohlen, Claude
Title: Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Nancy
Place of Publication: Nancy, France
Date: (1992)
Extent: pp. viii, 223.

Notes: In French. Biography of TJ, detailed and well-written. Sees TJ as the founding father who is most emblematic of American history, the founder of American democracy and the visionary of its expansion. Tries to place TJ in the context of his times, and thus tends to be a bit too apologetic of his record on slavery, for example, and also positions the story of his life in the context of the work of other biographers. Especially detailed about TJ in France.

Reference: 1102
Author: Fohlen, Claude
Title: Jefferson à Paris, 1784-1789 .
Publisher: Perrin
Place of Publication: Paris
Date: (1995)
Extent: pp. 227.

Notes: Account of TJ in Paris, with focus on people he met, places he lived, sites he visited. Well-written and informative, but more useful for readers of French, since Anglophone readers will more conveniently find essentially the same material in the work of William Howard Adams and Howard Rice. In French.

Reference: 1604
Author: Fohlen, Claude
Title: "Jefferson et l'Achat de la Louisiane."
Publication: Histoire
Volume: 5
Date: (1978)
Extent: 75-77

Notes: Review article on DeConde's This Affair of Louisiana.

Reference: 1605
Author: Fohlen, Claude
Title: "Jefferson et la France."
Publication: Revue des Travaux de l'Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques et Comptes Rendus de ses Seances
Volume: 129
Date: (1976)
Extent: 553-67

Notes: Discusses TJ's attitudes toward France; claims he was the only one of the founding fathers to remain a friend of France, largely because of his experiences while minister there.

Reference: 448
Author: Foley, John P.
Title: "Outdoor Life of the Presidents. No. 2. Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Outing
Volume: 13
Date: (1889)
Extent: 250-59

Notes: Sketch of TJ as horseman, gardener, natural historian.

Reference: 1606
Author: Foley, William E. and Charles David Rice
Title: "Visiting the President: An Exercise in Jeffersonian Indian Diplomacy."
Publication: American West
Volume: 16
Date: (1979)
Extent: 4-15, 56

Notes: Account of visits by Indian delegates; argues that TJ's philanthropic attitudes toward the Indians were negated by the distance between white and Indian cultures. Illustrated by Saint-Memin portraits and with a note on him.

Reference: 2229
Author: Foley, John P., ed.
Title: The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.
Publisher: Funk and Wagnalls
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1900)
Extent: pp. xxii, 1009

Notes: TJ's statements on practically everything, referenced to the Washington edition of 1853-54 and the Ford edition of 1892-97. An after-dinner speaker's delight.

Reference: 2794
Author: Foley, Donald J.
Title: "Two Presidents Who Loved to Garden."
Publication: Horticulture
Volume: 29
Date: (1951)
Extent: 43

Notes: Note on TJ and Washington as gardeners.

Reference: 658
Author: Foner, Philip S.
Title: "The Ideologist of American Democracy" in
Publication: Thomas Jefferson, Selections from His Writings
Publisher: International Publishers,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1943)
Extent: pp. 7-38.

Notes: Enlists TJ in the Allies' war effort against the Axis powers. "Jefferson's relation to Russia and England during the period of Napoleonic aggression" support the claim that he believed in "the international unity of interest of democratic nations." His changing positions are not signs of hypocrisy or insincerity, but "As circumstances and times changed so did Jefferson." TJ as a "progressive" ideologue.

Reference: 2230
Author: Foote, Henry Wilder
Title: "Introduction"
Publication: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. By Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Beacon Press
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1951)
Extent: 7-32

Notes: Discusses Priestley's influence on TJ's views and the evolution of the Life and Morals out of the Syllabus of 1803. Useful.

Reference: 2231
Author: Foote, Henry Wilder
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Champion of Religious Freedom Advocate of Christian Morals
Publisher: Beacon Press
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1947)
Extent: pp.ix,70

Notes: Surveys TJ's religious opinions and asserts he adopted Unitarian views late in life and would have joined a Unitarian church if Joseph Priestley had come to Charlottesville. Rpt. Boston: Beacon Press, 1960, under the title The Religion of Thomas Jefferson.

Reference: 2232
Author: Foote, Henry Wilder
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Social Reformer
Publisher: Beacon Press
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1947)
Extent: pp. 15

Notes: Survey points out the importance of an educated citizenry for TJ's trust in democratic reform.

Reference: 1607
Author: Force, Gerald, comp.
Title: The Jefferson Drafts of the Declaration of Independence in Facsimile
Publisher: Acropolis Books
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1963)
Extent: pp. (12)

Notes: Facsimile of the rough draft and fragments, together with the Dunlap broadside; annotated, but not significant.

Reference: 883
Author: Ford, Gary D.
Title: "The State of Jefferson's Virginia"
Publication: Southern Living
Volume: 28
Date: (April, 1993)
Extent: 88-95.

Notes: Biographical sketch that emphasizes the places in Virginia associated with TJ: Shadwell, Tuckahoe, Williamsburg, Richmond, Poplar Forest, and Monticello. Reports conversations with archaeologists, architectural historians, and conservators at these sites.

Reference: 449
Author: Ford, Paul Leicester
Title: "The French Revolution and Jefferson."
Publication: The Nation
Volume: 61
Date: (1895)
Extent: 61

Notes: Prints letter of October 28, 1795 to James Madison.

Reference: 450
Author: Ford, Paul Leicester
Title: "Jefferson in Undress."
Publication: Scribner's Magazine
Volume: 12
Date: (1892)
Extent: 509-16

Notes: Uses extracts from TJ's account books in a discussion of his private life.

Reference: 451
Author: Ford, Paul Leicester
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: A. W. Elson
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date: (1904)
Extent: pp.37

Notes: Introduction, followed by texts of 1st inaugural address, Declaration of Independence, and A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom. "Recognition of the principles for which he fought does not, however, imply endorsement of his methods and instruments."

Reference: 452
Author: Ford, Worthington C.
Title: "Letter to Samuel Adams. Is It Jefferson's?"
Publication: The Nation
Volume: 70
Date: (1900)
Extent: 298-99

Notes: Ford inquires about the authenticity of a letter known only in a late transcription.

Reference: 453
Author: Ford, Worthington C., ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson Correspondence Printed from the Originals in the Collections of William K. Bixby
Publisher: Privately Printed
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1916)
Extent: pp. xiv, 322

Notes: no note

Reference: 1608
Author: Ford, Paul Leicester
Title: "Jefferson's Drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798."
Publication: The Nation
Volume: 62
Date: (1896)
Extent: 156

Notes: Compares what purports to be TJ's rough draft and the fair copy of the Resolutions.

Reference: 1609
Author: Ford, Worthington C.
Title: "The Federal Constitution in Virginia, 1787-1788."
Publication: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Volume: 2nd Ser. 17
Date: (1902)
Extent: 450-510

Notes: Includes letters of Edward Carrington and others to TJ and Madison concerning ratification of the Constitution; no notes.

Reference: 1610
Author: Ford, Worthington C.
Title: "Jefferson and the Newspaper."
Publication: Records of the Columbia Historical Society
Volume: 8
Date: (1905)
Extent: 78-111

Notes: Claims that TJ was weak in controversial writing and incompetent to reply to Hamilton's pseudonymous papers, so he encouraged Freneau, Duane, and Callender. Eventually he turned his back on the malignancy of the press which he had encouraged.

Reference: 1611
Author: Ford, Worthington C.
Title: "Jefferson's Constitution for Virginia."
Publication: The Nation
Volume: 51
Date: (1890)
Extent: 107-09

Notes: Describes TJ's 1776 proposal.

Reference: 1612
Author: Ford, Worthington C.
Title: "Letters of James Cheatham, 1801-1807, Taken From the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress."
Publication: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Volume: 3rd ser. 1
Date: (1907)
Extent: 41-64

Notes: Short introduction to letters from a Republican pamphleteer.

Reference: 1613
Author: Ford, Worthington C., ed.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and James Thomson Callender."
Publication: New England Genealogical Register
Volume: 50
Date: (1896)
Extent: 321-33, 445-58; 51(1897), 19-25, 153-58, 323-28

Notes: Brief introduction followed by correspondence relevant to the TJ-Callender relationship, including letters from Callender to TJ, letters to and from Madison, Monroe, and Abigail Adams. Rpt. Brooklyn Historical Printing Club, 1897. pp. 45.

Reference: 2233
Author: Ford, John Cuthbert
Title: "The Natural Law and 'the Pursuit of Happiness."
Publication: Notre Dame Lawyer
Volume: 26
Date: (1951)
Extent: 429-61

Notes: Examines the origins and implications of the phrase in the Declaration and compares it as a statement of natural law right to scholastic theory.

Reference: 2795
Author: Ford, Paul Leicester
Title: "Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."
Publication: Nation
Volume: 58
Date: (1894)
Extent: 80-81, 98-99

Notes: Discusses TJ's early revisions of the Notes.

Reference: 2796
Author: Ford, Susan
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on the Classics."
Publication: Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics
Volume: 6
Date: (1967)
Extent: 116-32

Notes: Editorial comment stringing together bits on the classics from their correspondence.

Reference: 1159
Author: Forer, Bruce
Title: "Truth Is Not Self-Evident"
Publication: Entertainment Weekly
Date: (April 7, 1995)
Extent: 62.

Notes: Interview with Gary Hart that discusses media coverage, public figures, and private behavior, sparked by the recent Jefferson film.

Reference: 454
Author: Forman, S. E.
Title: The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions Compiled From State Papers and from His Private Correspondence
Publisher: Bowen-Merrill
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date: (1900)
Extent: pp. 474

Notes: Short biography, followed by a selection of TJ's writings arranged alphabetically by topic.

Reference: 1614
Author: Forman, Sidney
Title: "Thomas Jefferson on Universal Military Training."
Publication: Military Affairs
Volume: 11
Date: (1947)
Extent: 177-78

Notes: Quotes TJ's letter to Monroe, June 18, 1813, on "the necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier." That and his comments on military training in the Rockfish Gap Report show that he would not be opposed to universal military training in spite of his opposition to European militarism.

Reference: 2234
Author: Forrest, W. M.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Religious Freedom."
Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Extent: 355-57

Notes: Argues that the greatest enemy to religious freedom has been the pulpit; TJ in his defense of religious freedom found his greatest opposition there.

Reference: 455
Author: Forsyth, John
Title: Eulogium on Adams and Jefferson, Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Augusta
Publisher: Brantly and Clarke
Place of Publication: Augusta, Ga.
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 8

Notes: no note

Reference: 407
Author: Fortune, Brandon Brame
Title: "Portraits of Virtue and Genius: Pantheons of Worthies and Public Portraiture in the Early American Republic, 1780-1820." Ph.D. dissertation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Publication: DAI 1564-A.
Volume: 48
Date: (1987)
Date: (1987)
Extent: 565.

Notes: Considers collections of portraits as republican pantheons which at once bestowed honor on various worthies and held them up for emulation. American pantheons often aggrandized eminent sitters through severe, self-effacing formats even as they emphasized accuracy of countenance rather than "improved" portrayals. Pays special attention to five important collections of faces, TJ's assemblage of portraits, Trumbull's Declaration of Independence scene, Charles Willson Peale's gallery, Joseph Delaplaine's collection, and the New York City Hall pantheon. Chapter four takes up the question of supposed American degeneracy (the Buffon thesis).

Reference: 250
Author: Foshee, Andrew
Title: "Jeffersonian Political Economy and the Classical Tradition: Jefferson, Taylor, and the Agrarian Republic."
Publication: History of Political Economy
Volume: 17
Date: (1985)
Extent: 523-50.

Notes: Argues that examination of TJ's and John Taylor's writings reveal essentially the same model of agrarian political economy which is found in Greek and Roman literature. Claims neither abandoned his classical republican heritage, but TJ ultimately saw what Taylor would not: Madison's version of political economy with more room for domestic commerce and manufactures would be necessary to secure the republic. Agrees with Drew McCoy's analysis, described as an attempt to reconcile the positions of Joyce Appleby and J. G. A. Pocock. Claims for the essentiality of the classical model are not well considered and are supported rather more by appeals to the authority of other scholars of a conservative bent than by thoughtful argument.

Reference: 11
Author: Foster, W. E.
Title: "Jefferson's Administrations."
Publication: Providence Public Library Monthly Reference Lists
Volume: 3
Date: (1883)
Extent: 21-22

Notes: no note

Reference: 456
Author: Foster, Sir Augustus John
Title: Jeffersonian America: Notes on the United States of America, Collected in the Years 1805-6-7 and 11-12.
Publication: Edited with an Introduction by Richard Beale Davis.
Publisher: Huntington Library
Place of Publication: San Marino, Cal.
Date: (1954)
Extent: pp.xx,356

Notes: British diplomat visits Monticello, pp. 143-61; TJ discussed there and passim. Interesting but predictably biased.

Reference: 1615
Author: Foster, John W.
Title: "The Administration of Jefferson"
Publication: A Century of American Diplomacy, Being a Brief Review of the Foreign Relations of the United States
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1900)
Extent: 185-232

Notes: Gossipy account of diplomatic affairs.

Reference: 2235
Author: Foster, Franklin P.
Title: The World War, Jefferson and Democracy
Publication: The History Club
Place of Publication: Anderson, Ind.
Date: (1917)
Extent: pp. 58

Notes: World War I "reveals the march of Jefferson's ideals." Exposition of TJ's democracy for which the world is to be made safe.

Reference: 1616
Author: Fouts, Levi N.
Title: "Jefferson the Inventor and His Relation to the Patent System."
Publication: Journal of the Patent Office Society
Volume: 4
Date: (1922)
Extent: 316-31

Notes: Circumstantial account of TJ's establishment of the Patent Office.

Reference: 2236
Author: Fowler, Samuel
Title: "The Political Opinions of Jefferson."
Publication: North American Review
Volume: 101
Date: (1865)
Extent: 313-35

Notes: Review essay on Randall's biography. An Hegelian critique of TJ, claiming that for all of his great services and talents, his flaw was his commitment to individualism. Upon the "doctrine of state rights and local self-government ... will defend his reputation as statesman and philosopher." But "This is the day of great nations.... We are at an immeasurable distance from the times when Jefferson could describe us as 'one nation towards others, separate governments among ourselves."'

Reference: 2798
Author: Fox, Mary Virginia
Title: Treasure of the Revolution
Publisher: Abingdon
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1961)
Extent: pp. 191

Notes: Juvenile fiction; protagonists are fictional Randolph cousins of TJ during the British invasion of Virginia.

Reference: 659
Author: Francis, Carrie Isabelle
Title: "The Early Political, Economic and Social Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: M.A. Thesis.
Publisher: University of Chicago
Date: (1932)
Extent: pp. 54.

Reference: 320
Author: Frank, Willard C., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Religious Journey."
Publication: Religious Humanism
Volume: 20
Date: (Winter, 1986)
Extent: 8-17.

Notes: Claims TJ's changing conception of God passed through three broad phases: an Anglican phase in which he was raised, a deist phase from his college years until his fifties, and a final moralist phase "under the deep influence of Unitarians and Universalists." Mostly conventional sketch, a bit simplistic, particularly when it tries too hard to make TJ an upper case U Unitarian.

Reference: 87
Author: Frankel, Jeffrey A.
Title: "The 1807-1809 Embargo against Great Britain."
Publication: Journal of Economic History
Volume: 42
Date: (1982)
Extent: 291-308.

Notes: Opposes conventional views that the Embargo was an economic failure and demonstrates that the Embargo's effect was to lower the real value of consumption in Britain more than in the U. S. Britain was less able to supply agricultural products previously imported from the U. S. than the U.S. was to make up the loss in manufactured goods coming the other way. The Embargo failed, the author contends, not for economic reasons but political ones. Britain was united in opposition to Napoleon, whereas Federalist opposition to TJ and his Embargo grew. An economic analysis, not on TJ directly, but of interest to anyone seeking to understand, and perhaps to justify, his notions about the use of embargoes.

Reference: 457
Author: Frankfurter, Felix
Title: The Permanence of Jefferson
Publication: The Jefferson Bicentennial, 1743-1943. A Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Library of Congress
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1943)
Extent: 3-12

Notes: Declares that TJ should be treated as a source of energy for American democracy and not as a book of rules for specific situations.

Reference: 660
Author: Franklin, Rachel Elaine
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest." M.A. thesis, Middle Tennessee State University
Publisher: MAI 28/03, p. 362.
Date: (1989)
Extent: Pp. 180.

Notes: Examines TJ's design and use of Poplar Forest, including both its functional and symbolic roles.

Reference: 1617
Author: Franklin, John Hope
Title: "The Dream Deferred"
Publication: Racial Equality in America
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date: (1976)
Extent: 3-36

Notes: Argues that TJ's racism and failure to act unequivocally in opposition to slavery demonstrate that "the ideology of the American Revolution was not really egalitarian."

Reference: 1618
Author: Franklin, Mitchell
Title: "The Place of Thomas Jefferson in the Expulsion of Spanish Medieval Law from Louisiana."
Publication: Tulane Law Review
Volume: 16
Date: (1942)
Extent: 319-38

Notes: Explains why TJ was ready to send troops to back up Gov. Claiborne's veto of the proposed legal system of 1806, supposedly because it claimed a "democratic" right to own slaves.

Reference: 2237
Author: Franklin, Francis
Title: "The Democratic Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Heritage of Jefferson
Publisher: International Publishers
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1944)
Extent: 40-48

Notes: Contends Marxism is a perfected form of Jeffersonian democracy; "Lenin, in a more advanced age than that of Jefferson, voiced Jefferson's faith in democracy with his great slogan, 'Through democracy to socialism." '

Reference: 549
Author: Franzosa, Susan Douglas
Title: "Schooling Women in Citizenship."
Publication: Theory into Practice
Volume: 27
Date: (Fall, 1989)
Extent: 275-81.

Notes: Attempts to show that civic education in America has both socialized students to accept existing social arrangements and also aspired to educate them to assume the role of citizens. Discusses TJ's Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge and points out the assumption that women would not be fully participating citizens limited their educational opportunities, even though TJ was in advance of many of his contemporaries in calling for even a minimum of public-supported schooling for women.

Reference: 2799
Author: Frary, Ihna Thayer
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Architect and Builder
Publisher: Garrett and Massie
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1931)
Extent: pp. xv, 139

Notes: Discusses TJ's architecture with perhaps more enthusiasm than scholarship. Numerous illustrations. Rpt. 1939, 1950.

Reference: 2800
Author: Frary, Ihna T.
Title: "Virginia's Greatest Architect."
Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 2
Date: (1935)
Extent: 7-9

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 2801
Author: Fraser, Alexander David
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Field Archaeologist."
Publication: Fine Arts, Dedicated to Artistic Virginia
Volume: 2
Date: (1935)
Extent: 3-4, 15

Notes: Account of TJ's excavation of an Indian mound.

Reference: 661
Author: Freehling, William W.
Title: "Conditional Termination in the Early Republic" in
Publication: The Road to Disunion: Vol. I, Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1990)
Extent: pp. 121-143.

Notes: Sharply critical view of TJ's stance on slavery and its consequences. TJ described as a master of self-deceit who avoided the unpleasant reality of slavery while timidly decrying it. By loading the imposible burden of removal onto the question of freeing slaves, he made emancipation practically impossible. Succeeding chapters on "The Missouri Compromise" and "Class Revolt in Virginia" also have relevant pages on Jefferson.

Reference: 2238
Author: Freehling, William W.
Title: "The Founding Fathers and Slavery."
Publication: AHR
Volume: 77
Date: (1972)
Extent: 81-93

Notes: Emphasizes the positive side of TJ's position toward slavery in response to attacks on his failure to take a more aggressive position on abolition. Argues that TJ and his contemporaries set in motion the process leading toward abolition, even if in trying to have it both ways, TJ also gave informal sanction to the lower South's worst racial fears and helped to deepen those fears.

Reference: 884
Author: Freeman, Joanne
Title: "Slander, Poison, Whispers, and Fame: Jefferson's Anas and Political Gossip in the Early Republic."
Publication: M. A. thesis. University of Virginia,
Date: (1993)

Notes: See Freeman's 1995 essay in Journal of the Early Republic .

Reference: 1160
Author: Freeman, Joanne B.
Title: "Slander, Whispers, and Fame: Jefferson's `Anas' and Political Gossip in the Early Republic"
Publication: Journal of the Early Republic
Volume: 15
Date: (1995)
Extent: 25-58.

Notes: Uses a long-overlooked record that seems to have been a table of contents for the "Anas" in order to discuss them as a record of the political culture of the early 1790's. Penetrating discussion of the role of gossip in this culture and its function in party formation. Analyzes the "rules" of political gossip, its exchange practices, and its intended uses. Argues that by "choosing not to publish the `Anas' Jefferson remained comfortably detached from political conflict, a passive conversationalist." Suggestive and informative essay.

Reference: 458
Author: Freidel, Frank
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Third President 1801-1809
Publication: Our Country's Presidents
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1966)
Extent: 30-37

Notes: no note

Reference: 251
Author: French, Hannah D.
Title: "Notes on American Bookbindings: The March-Milligan Connection, or, Second Thoughts about John March as a Binder for Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Volume: 95
Date: (1985)
Extent: 161-63.

Notes: Sowerby's identification of over 150 books bound for TJ by John March between 1801 and 1807 is at least partly erroneous. March died June 2, 1804, and John Milligan, who did a great deal of binding work for TJ, was the administrator of his estate and seems likely to have used March's tools.

Reference: 885
Author: French, Scot A. and Edward L. Ayers
Title: "The Strange Career of Thomas Jefferson: Race and Slavery in American Memory, 1943-1993," in Jeffersonian Legacies , ed. Onuf.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1993)
Extent: 418-456.

Notes: Discusses debates since 1943 (and the dedication of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington) over TJ's place in America's involvement in slavery and its continuing difficulties with race as part of a larger struggle over cultural authority. White male scholars have been challenged by women and African-Americans, professional historians by journalists, imaginative writers, descendants of Monticello's slaves, including those who trace their descent from Sally Hemings. Includes an account of the appearance at the Jefferson Legacies conference in 1993 of Robert H. Cooley III, who traced his ancestry to Sally Hemings and TJ and challenged historians to recognize the truth of his family's oral tradition.

Reference: 252
Author: Fretz, T.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: America's First Horticulturalist?"
Publication: HortScience
Volume: 20
Date: (June, 1985)
Extent: 344-46.

Notes: The answer is yes; surveys TJ's gardening and farm interests, but adds nothing new.

Reference: 1331
Author: Freund, Charles Paul
Title: "St. Thomas's Dumbbell"
Publication: Reason
Volume: 29
Date: (November, 1997)
Extent: 19.

Notes: On "relics" that can be purchased from the Monticello Gift Collection, in a catalogue issued by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, such as a replica of a dumbbell that TJ used for exercise after breaking his wrist.

Reference: 1619
Author: Freund, Rudolph
Title: "John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the Nature of Land Holding in America."
Publication: Land Economics
Volume: 24
Date: (1948)
Extent: 107-19

Notes: Claims Adams conceived of land tenure as basically personal in nature, depending on contracts between individual agents. TJ denied that the English King ever had a right to grant land in the colonies and held that Americans possessed their land in absolute domain like their Saxon forefathers.

Reference: 459
Author: Frey, Herman S.
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: For the Author
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp.8

Notes: no note

Reference: 1620
Author: Fried, Albert, ed.
Title: The Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian Traditions in American Politics; A Documentary History
Publisher: Doubleday Anchor
Place of Publication: Garden City, N.Y.
Date: (1968)
Extent: pp. xii, 581

Notes: Collection of documents illustrating the fortunes of the Jeffersonian politics of equality and human rights vs. property rights and limitless economic opportunity.

Reference: 1621
Author: Friedenwald, Herbert
Title: "The Declaration of Independence."
Publication: International Monthly
Volume: 4
Date: (1901)
Extent: 102-21

Notes: Analyzes text of the Declaration; suggests that TJ touches all the colonies in the course of the list of grievances, establishing a common interest in independence.

Reference: 1622
Author: Friedenwald, Herbert
Title: The Declaration of Independence, An Interpretation and an Analysis
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1904)
Extent: pp.xii, 299

Notes: Readable but dated account of the historical background of the Declaration, its composition and acceptance, its philosophical background (Lockean), and the nature of the grievances it claims.

Reference: 460
Author: Friederech, Werner P
Title: Der Philosoph der Revolution: Thomas Jefferson
Publication: Werden und Wachsen der U.S.A. in 300 Jahren
Publisher: A Francke
Place of Publication: Bern
Date: (1939)
Extent: 48-54

Notes: no note

Reference: 461
Author: Friedman, Daniel
Title: Meet Rob Coles
Publication: Albemarle Monthly
Volume: 2
Date: (1979)
Extent: 12-16

Notes: Report on a descendant of TJ who acts his ancestor in a play "Meet Thomas Jefferson"

Reference: 462
Author: Friis, Herman R.
Title: Baron Alexander von Humboldt's Visit to Washington, D.C., June 1 through June 13, 1804
Publication: Records of the Columbian Historical Society. 1960-62
Publication: The Society
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1963)
Extent: 1-35

Notes: Detailed account of Humboldt's visit and meeting with TJ

Reference: 2802
Author: Friis, Herman R.
Title: "Alexander von Humboldt's Uesuch in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika Vom 20. Mai bis zum 30. Juni 1804"
Publication: Alexander von Humboldt: Studien zu seiner unwersalen Geisteshaltung, ed. Joachim Schultze
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter Co.
Place of Publication: Berlin
Date: (1959)
Extent: 142-95

Notes: Argues strongly that Humboldt did not visit TJ at Monticello.

Reference: 769
Author: Frisch, Morton J.
Title: The Hamilton-Madison-Jefferson Triangle.
Publisher: John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs
Place of Publication: Ashland OH.
Date: (1992)
Extent: pp. viii, 39.

Notes: Examines the positions of TJ, Madison, Hamilton on constitutional issues in the new republic. Sees the issues in terms of the need to strike balances between government power and individual liberty, and sees TJ as an ideologue who did not understand the role of powr in maintaining a regime for liberty. Madison, vulnerable to being seduced by TJ, did not become simply a Jeffersonian and represents a third position between TJ and Hamilton. Discusses the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the Louisiana Purchase in light of debates about the Constitution, the latter showing a connection between TJ's adherence to abstract principle and flirtation with illegal executive prerogative when special circumstances arose.

Reference: 1332
Author: Frisch, Morton J.
Title: "Jeffersonianism and the New Deal"
Publication: Reason and Republicanism , ed. McDowell and Noble
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication: Lanham MD.
Date: (1997)
Extent: 205-218.

Notes: Does not see much genuine Jeffersonian legacy in the New Deal, whose fundamental impulse was toward economic redistribution, as in the Social Security Act. "Welfarism" replaced the "pursuit of happiness." Agrees with Merrill Peterson's claim that "the New Deal killed the Jeffersonian philosophy as a recognizable and usable tradition in American government and politics."

Reference: A23
Author: Frisch, Morton J.
Title: "Hamilton's Report on Manufactures and Political Philosophy."
Publication: Publius
Volume: 8
Date: (Summer, 1978)
Extent: 129-39.

Notes: Compares the tension between liberty and equality seen in Hamilton's report with that found in TJ's case for agriculture as preferable to manufacturing. Describes the Report on Manufactures as a basic defense of the "acquisitive principle" and after claiming that TJ is "one of Rousseau's greatest disciples," reduces the difference between them the preference for economic diversification vs. specialization, also understood as a tension between the primacy of public prosperity vs. political moralism. Sees Hamilton as at the head of a tradition of liberty, TJ at one of equality. Too neat.

Reference: 2239
Author: Fritchman, Stephen Hole
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Men of Liberty: Ten Unitarian Pioneers
Publisher: Beacon Press
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1944)
Extent: 83-102

Notes: TJ's liberal religion.

Reference: 463
Author: Frost, John
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publication: The Presidents of the United States; from Washington to Fillmore. Comprising Their Personal and Political History.
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1852)
Extent: 77-102

Notes: no note

Reference: 2803
Author: Frye, Melinda Young
Title: Thomas Jefferson and Wine in Early America, Art and artifacts reflecting the cultural history of wine in the Colonies and the early Republic
Publisher: The Wine Museum of San Francisco
Place of Publication: San Francisco
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp. 24

Notes: "Foreward" by Ernest G. Mittelberger; generalized comments on TJ and wine.

Reference: 464
Author: Fuentes, German Alvarez
Title: Thomas Jefferson y Su Tiempo
Publisher: Rex Press
Place of Publication: Miami
Date: (1977)
Extent: 180

Notes: no note

Reference: 2804
Author: Fuld, Melvin
Title: "Some Medals of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Numismatist
Volume: 83
Date: (1970)
Extent: 24

Notes: no note

Reference: 1623
Author: Fuller, Melville W.
Title: "Jefferson and Hamilton."
Publication: Dial
Volume: 4
Date: (1883)
Extent: 4-6

Notes: Review essay on Morse's Jefferson and Lodge's Hamilton; TJ and Hamilton are types of the two great parties, one believing in strict, the other in free construction of the constitution. Faults Morse's bias.

Reference: 2240
Author: Fuller, Edmund and David E. Green
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: God in the White House: the Faiths of American Presidents
Publisher: Crown
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1968)
Extent: 28-38

Notes: Claims he is "among the most religious men to have been President, far more so than many who have been nominal members of churches."

Reference: 2805
Author: Fuller, Albert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Music."
Publication: High Fidelity and Musical America
Volume: 26
Date: (1976)
Extent: 51

Notes: Short generality.

Reference: 2806
Author: Fulling, Edward H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: His Interest in Plant Life as Revealed in His Writings."
Publication: Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
Volume: 71
Date: (1944)
Extent: 563-98; 72(1945), 248-70

Notes: Extensive survey of TJ's botanical interests and comments. Finds his botanical claim to fame rests not in adding to contemporary understanding of plants but in encouraging botanical activities on the Lewis and Clark expedition and at the Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 2241
Author: Funston, Janet and Richard
Title: "Cesare Beccaria and the Founding Fathers."
Publication: Italian American
Volume: 3
Date: (1976)
Extent: 72-92

Notes: Of all Americans, TJ was most influenced by Beccaria, particularly in the Declaration and the Virginia Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments.

Reference: 408
Author: Furtwangler, Albert
Title: "Jefferson's Trinity"
Publication: American Silhouettes: Rhetorical Identities of the Founders
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Place of Publication: Ithaca:
Date: (1987)
Extent: 115-37.

Notes: Uses the January 16, 1811 letter to Benjamin Rush in which TJ describes telling Hamilton that Bacon, Newton, and Locke were "my trinity of the three greatest men the world had ever produced" and Hamilton's supposed rejoinder that "the greatest man ... was Julius Caesar." Sensitive and critical attention to the rhetorical strategies of the letter supports a delineation of the role of Enlightenment progressivism in TJ's thought and practice. Contrasts TJ and William Blake's visions of revolutionary awakening, suggesting that the Declaration "can be understood as a shining public poem of a kind that Blake aspired to produce," but concluding that TJ lived in a world where such visions could be given a social reality. Blake's recurrent scenes of humanity casting off the nightmares of space and time, science, and history contrast with TJ's Monticello, luminously fixed in space and time.