Reference: 1226
Author: O'Brien, Conor Cruise
Title: The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 .
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date: (1996)
Extent: pp. xvii, 367.

Notes: Contends that the French Revolution played a central role in TJ's thinking and actions. Argues that he knew comparatively little about France because of a parochialism that led him in Paris to recreate a familiar Virginia, but that he had an unconscious fascination with revolutionary violence. Does not go so far as to accuse TJ of being a member of the Bavarian Illuminati, but sees him as a devious plotter at the center of efforts to extend the French Revolution to America. Ultimately accuses him of being the spiritual father of the modern day militias and the Oklahoma City bombing. Some suggestive insights into some of TJ's political maneuverings, which were not always candid and aboveboard to be sure, but tends to speculate beyond verifiable limits when reading documents. Too much “Jefferson must surely have been thinking ---” Fails to credit the possibility that TJ might have been serious about his concerns for liberty and democracy and might have had grounds to be concerned. Author's previous book was on Edmund Burke, and Burke is the implicit moral and political criterion in this rather bilious study.

Reference: 1267
Author: O'Brien, Conor Cruise
Title: “Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist,”
Publication: American Music Teacher
Volume: 45
Date: (February/March, 1996)
Extent: 10-13.
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 278
Date: (October, 1996)
Extent: 53-74.

Notes: Argues that TJ's image in the American mind, in Merrill Peterson's terms, in the later 20 ^th century will be defined by his ownership of slaves, his racism, and his support for anarchic revolutionary violence and attacks on the central government. TJ is the father of the Ku Klux Klan and the Oklahoma City bombings and should be rejected from the American pantheon.

Reference: 1861
Author: O'Brien, Charles F.
Title: "The Religious Issue in the Presidential Campaign of 1800."
Publisher: Essex Institute Historical Collections
Volume: 107
Date: (1971)
Extent: 82-93

Notes: Survey of religious dimension of ~ederalist campaign against TJ.

Reference: 3139
Author: O'Callaghan, E. B.
Title: "Jefferson Notes of Virginia."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 1
Date: (1857)
Extent: 52

Notes: Bibliographical note.

Reference: 3140
Author: O'Callaghan, E. B.
Title: "The Revised Proofs of Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 13
Date: (1868)
Extent: 96-98

Notes: Bibliographic description.

Reference: 506
Author: O'Connor, Thomas F.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Reading List: The Classics and the Development of the `Whole' Man."
Publication: Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume: 34
Date: (February 3, 1988)
Extent: A48.

Notes: Discusses TJ's letter of August 19, 1787, to Peter Carr, outlining a course of classical reading. The author has devised a course with TJ's advice in mind in order to enable himself and his students "to consider the classics in a new way," as sources of pleasure, utility, and taste and as encouragement "to fix us in the principles and practices of virtue."

Reference: 3142
Author: O'Donnell, James H., III
Title: "Logan's Oration: A Case Study in Ethnographic Authentication."
Publication: Quarterly Journal of Speech
Volume: 65
Date: (1979)
Extent: 150-56

Notes: "Logan's Oration is a moving and legitimate expression of Native American oratory."

Reference: 19
Author: O'Neal, William B.
Title: A Checklist of Writings on Thomas Jefferson as an Architect.
Publication: Publication No. 15
Publisher: American Association of Architectural Bibliographers
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1959)
Extent: pp. 18

Notes: Also issued as Secretary's News Sheet, No. 43, University of Virginia Bibliographical Society. Approximately 150 entries.

Reference: 20
Author: O'Neal, William B.
Title: An Intelligent Interest in Architecture: A Bibliography of Publications about Thomas Jefferson together with an Iconography of the Nineteenth-Century Prints of the University of Virginia.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1969)
Extent: pp. viii, 150

Notes: (American Association of Architectural Bibliographers Papers. No. 6). Lists articles and books that mention TJ even in passing and are not within the scope of this bibliography. Well annotated and very useful.

Reference: 3146
Author: O'Neal, William Bainter and Frederick Doveton Nichols
Title: An Architectural History of the First University Pavilion
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 15
Date: (1956)
Extent: 36-43

Notes: Account of the designing and construction of Pavilion VII under TJ's direction.

Reference: 3147
Author: O'Neal, William B.
Title: Financing the Construction of the University of Virginia: Notes and Documents
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 23
Date: (1965)
Extent: 5-34

Notes: Difficulties of TJ and Joseph C. Cabell in obtaining funds to build the University.

Reference: 3148
Author: O'Neal, William B.
Title: Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Press
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1960)
Extent: pp.62

Notes: Introduction discusses design and building of the Rotunda; lists and describes documents pertaining to construction; plates of influential designs and TJ's drawings.

Reference: 3149
Author: O'Neal, William Bainter
Title: Jefferson's Fine Arts Library, His Selections for the University of Virginia Together with His Own Architectural Books
Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp.xviii, 409

Notes: Full description and annotation of books in TJ's 1825 Catalogue of the Library of the Univ. of Virginia, plus relevant items from John V. Kean's 1825 Catalogue and the 1828 Catalogue, plus items from Sowerby on the Monticello "great" library.

Reference: 3150
Author: O'Neal, William B.
Title: Jefferson's Fine Arts Library for the University of Virginia, With Additional Notes on Architectural Volumes Known to Have Been Owned by Jefferson
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Press
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1956)
Extent: pp.53

Notes: Includes a desiderata list for the Univ. of Virginia libraries, entries having to do with fine arts from TJ's 1825 Catalogue of the Univ. Library and a list of books now in the Univ. library from TJ's own libraries. Not the same as item #3149.

Reference: 3151
Author: O'Neal, William B.
Title: Michele and Giacomo Raggi at the University of Virginia: With Notes and Documents
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 18
Date: (1960)
Extent: 5-31

Notes: TJ's difficult dealings with Italian stonecutters hired to do the Corinthian and Ionic capitols for the Pavilions and the Rotunda.

Reference: 3152
Author: O'Neal, William B.
Title: The Workmen at the University of Virginia, 1817-1826, With Notes and Documents
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 17
Date: (1959)
Extent: 5-48

Notes: Explores TJ's difficulties in obtaining competent workmen and the proposals he received from craftsmen.

Reference: 1192
Author: O'Neil, Robert M.
Title: “Thomas Jefferson und das Verhältnis von Kirche und Staat,”
Publication: in Wasser, ed. Thomas Jefferson: Historische Bedeuteung und Politische Aktualität
Publisher: Ferdinand Schöningh
Place of Publication: Paderborn
Date: (1995)
Extent: 143-52.

Notes: “Thomas Jefferson and Church and State Relations. ” In German.

Reference: 1193
Author: O'Neil, Robert M.
Title: “Thomas Jefferson und die Pressefreiheit,”
Publication: in Wasser, ed. Thomas Jefferson: Historische Bedeuteung und Politische Aktualität
Publisher: Ferdinand Schöningh
Place of Publication: Paderborn
Date: (1995)
Extent: 202-216.

Notes: “Thomas Jefferson and Freedom of the Press. ”

Reference: 507
Author: O'Toole, Daniel E.
Title: "Citizen Participation Through Budgeting."
Publication: The Bureaucrat
Volume: 17
Date: (Summer, 1988)
Extent: 51-55.

Notes: TJ's advocacy of active participation by informed citizens as a way to control and limit government outlines an ideal for citizen participation in government now. Important means are "performance auditing" and other "inputs" into budgetary decisions.

Reference: 508
Author: O'Toole, Tom, and Joanne O'Toole
Title: "Jefferson's Grand Design."
Publication: Cleveland Magazine
Volume: 17
Date: (September, 1988)
Extent: 59-60.

Notes: Travel note for would be visitors to Monticello.

Reference: 1191
Author: Oakes, James
Title: “Was Madison More Radical Than Jefferson?”
Publication: Journal of the Early Republic
Volume: 15
Date: (1995)
Extent: 649-656.

Notes: Review essay responding to J. M. Smith's edition of the Jefferson-Madison letters, suggesting that the conventional image of a radical TJ and conservative Madison is not quite so simple. Offers a “mischievous” reading that shows just the opposite, but concludes that “labeling either of these men as 'radicals' obscures more than it reveals. ”

Reference: 1369
Author: Oates, Stephen B.
Title: "Prologue: Thomas Jefferson," in The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 .
Publisher: HarperCollins
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1997)
Extent: 1-7.

Notes: TJ's is one of 13 individuals who "speaks" about the coming of the Civil War; a fictional statement dated April 22, 1820 that weaves together comments on the evils of slavery and the difficulties of becoming disentangled, relying particularly on the letter to John Holmes of this date.

Reference: 3143
Author: Ogburn, Floyd, Jr.
Title: "Structure and Meaning in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."
Publication: Early American Literature
Volume: 15
Date: (1980)
Extent: 141-50

Notes: Using concepts of linguistic analysis such as foregrounding and collocation, attempts to get at the "deep structure" of TJ's "pastoral." But since these passages are supposedly the two sublime passages about the Potomac and the Natural Bridge, the conclusion that TJ understood nature as order and proportion seems incomplete.

Reference: 886
Author: Ogden, Octavius N.
Title: An Anniversary Oration, Delivered on the 13th of April, 1836, at the Request of the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia
Publisher: James Alexander
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1836)
Extent: pp. 35

Notes: "On the new continent, the moral and intellectual creation seems to have been fashioned after the same bold sublimity of outline, that characterized the works of external nature."

Reference: 1301
Author: Old, Wendie C.
Title: Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: Enslow Pub
Place of Publication: Springfield, NJ.
Date: (1997)
Extent: pp. 112.

Notes: Juvenile biography.

Reference: 887
Author: Olgin, Joseph
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Champion of the People
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1960)
Extent: pp. 192

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: A54
Author: Oliver, John W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826"
Publication: History of American Technology
Publisher: Ronald Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1956)
Extent: 112-17.

Notes: Survey of TJ's scientific interests. The usual summary.

Reference: 3144
Author: Oliver, John William
Title: "Science and the 'Founding Fathers."'
Publication: Scientific Monthly
Volume: 48
Date: (1939)
Extent: 256-60

Notes: Discusses TJ and the patent office; he originally examined every patent application himself.

Reference: 3145
Author: Oliver, John W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Scientist."
Publication: Scientific Monthly
Volume: 56
Date: (1943)
Extent: 460-67

Notes: Examines TJ's scientific activities during five periods of his life.

Reference: 238
Author: Ong, Bruce Nelson
Title: "Constitutionalism and Political Change: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Progressive Reinterpretations." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Virginia,
Publication: DAI 645-A.
Volume: 47
Date: (1985)
Date: (1986)
Extent: 436.

Notes: Contends that Madison and TJ wanted to check "Aristotlean sedition," the conscious attempt to change a regime's principles or constitution, by providing a stronger basis for the rule of law and restraints on power. They rejected the British variety of constitutionalism because they did not want the politics of those in office at any given moment to overwhelm fundamental law. In the Progressive Era J. Allen Smith, Herbert Croly, Walter E. Weyl, and Woodrow Wilson attempted to loosen these restrictions in order to attempt major reforms in American law and society. Consequently an uneasy tension exists between that part of our tradition which favors constitutional restraints on power and that which opposes them. A political science dissertation which seems to overlook some traditional historical questions--whatever happened to the Federalists?

Reference: 433
Author: Onuf, Peter S.
Title: "The Ordinance of 1784"
Publication: Statehood and Nation: A History of the Northwest Ordinance
Publisher: Indiana Univ. Press,
Place of Publication: Bloomington:
Date: (1987)
Extent: 46-56.

Notes: Reprints and discusses the provisions of the Ordinance of 1784, drafted by a committee headed by TJ, and examines his thinking on the procedure of Western settlement. The 1784 Ordinance along with the 1785 land ordinance provided the basic framework for early American territorial policy. TJ expected the newly opened regions to be settled rapidly, but he failed to anticipate obstacles which Congress faced in organizing new settlements. Contends that he may have overestimated the ability of frontier settlers to govern themselves--he assumed that new settlements would be "states" from their beginning--and also expected too much from the new land system.

Reference: 838
Author: Onuf, Peter S., ed.
Title: Jeffersonian Legacies .
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1993)
Extent: pp. xiv, 478.

Notes: Collection of original essays, originally presented at a conference in this same year at Monticello that was designed to present recent directions in scholarship about TJ. Essays are listed and described separately below.

Reference: 936
Author: Onuf, Peter S.
Title: "The Scholar's Jefferson."
Publication: William and Mary Quarterly
Volume: 50
Date: (1993)
Extent: 671-99.

Notes: A thoughtful, wide-ranging discussion of scholarship on TJ in the last decade or so.

Reference: 937
Author: Onuf, Peter S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Federalist"
Publication: Essays in History
Volume: 35
Date: (1993)
Extent: 19-32.

Notes: Contends that historians have not given sufficient serious attention to the second half of TJ's claim in his first inaugural speech: “We are all republicans, we are all federalists. ” Argues that he “was always a federalist,” as shown by a fresh reading of the Declaration of Independence. Even the Summary View is a plan for federal union, and the Declaration's implicit hierarchical scheme of citizens speaking as the people, states speaking for the people in the national Congress, and the Union speaking for them to the world “constituted the paradigm or framework for elaborations of the federal idea in succeeding decades.

Reference: 1370
Author: Onuf, Peter
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Missouri, and the 'Empire for Liberty,'"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West , Ronda ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Place of Publication: Albuquerque
Date: (1997)
Extent: 111-53.

Notes: An insightful examination of TJ's responses to the Missouri crisis of 1819-20 that puts his distress over the threat to the union in the context of his earlier thinking about the nature of the federal republic(s). Argues that TJ's rhetoric at the time exposes some fundamental contradictions in his thinking that in turn reflect "tensions in American liberalism in its formative years." TJ's "despair in 1820 and 1821 illuminates the promise of 1776 ," but here the "natural rights language of Jefferson's Declaration was turned against the equally 'natural' rights of states to assert their equality and independence and so join in affectionate union." An important essay, included in revised form in the author's 2000 volume
Title: Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood.

Reference: A55
Author: Ophuls, William
Title: "Citizenship and Ecological Education."
Publication: Teachers College Record
Volume: 82
Date: (1980)
Extent: 217-40.

Notes: Describes the possibilities of Hamiltonian vs. Jeffersonian citizenship. Claims America took the former path, one of commitment to commercial complexity and national power vs . TJ's line of agrarian simplicity and individual virtue. Calls for a "neo-Jeffersonian" response of frugality and fraternity. Somewhat naive and limited view of TJ, but an interesting attempt to draw upon his authority.

Reference: 3154
Author: Oppenheimer, J. Robert.
Title: "Encouragement of Science."
Publication: Science News Letter
Volume: 57
Date: (1950)
Extent: 170-72

Notes: TJ's letter to William Green Munford is suffused with the idea of progress and with Q recognition that science and political life are relevant to each other. Rpt. Science. 111(1950), 373-75.

Reference: 1074
Author: Orazi, Donatella
Title: “Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826,”
Publication: Domus
Volume: 761
Date: (June, 1994)
Extent: 97-99.

Notes: Review essay based on Maria Cristina Loi's 1993 book on TJ as architect. In Italian.

Reference: 888
Author: Orico, Osvaldo
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Homens da America Libertadores de Povos do Continente
Publication: Editora Getulio Costa
Place of Publication: Rio de Janeiro
Date: (1944)
Extent: 65-82

Notes: no note

Reference: 3155
Author: Ormsbee, Thomas Hamilton
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Own Oriental Lowestoft."
Publication: American Collector
Volume: 14
Date: (1946)
Extent: 5

Notes: Illustrated note on TJ's Chinese-made Lowestoft punch bowl and pitcher.

Reference: 1864
Author: Osborn, Robert W.
Title: "Portrait of a Revolutionary: Thomas Jefferson and the Coming of the American Revolution."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Fort Hays State College
Date: (1969)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 3156
Author: Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Paleontologist."
Publication: Science, n.s.
Volume: 82
Date: (1935)
Extent: 533-38

Notes: Sketch of TJ's interests in mammoths and the megalonyx.

Reference: 3157
Author: Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, The Pioneer in American Paleontology."
Publication: Science
Volume: n.s. 69
Date: (1929)
Extent: 410-13

Notes: A speech recapitulating the history of American paleontology; only two paragraphs on TJ.

Reference: 3158
Author: Osgood, Ernest S.
Title: "A Prarie Dog for Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: Montana: The Magazine of Western History
Volume: 19
Date: (1969)
Extent: 54-56

Notes: Account of a prairie dog sent to TJ by Lewis and Clark from Fort Madison.

Reference: 3159
Author: Osgood, John C.
Title: "How, Thomas Jefferson, Can We Provide Simultaneously for Excellence and Egalitarianism?"
Publication: Mount Holyoke Alumni Quarterly
Volume: 59
Date: (1975)
Extent: 85-88

Notes: Remarks on TJ's ideas about education; title question not answered.

Reference: 889
Author: Oshiba, Ei
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Gakushu Bunku Co.
Place of Publication: Kobe
Date: (1951)
Extent: pp. 191

Notes: In Japanese.

Reference: 2388
Author: Ostrander, Gilman M.
Title: "Jefferson and Scottish Culture."
Publication: Historical Reflections
Volume: 5
Date: (1978)
Extent: 233-48

Notes: Contrasts TJ's admiration for the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment to his vigorous disapproval of Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism in Virginia; he never thought of Scottish learning as distinctively Scottish.

Reference: 2389
Author: Ostrander, Gilman M.
Title: "Lord Kames and American Revolutionary Culture"
Publication: Essays in Honor of Russel B. Nye, ed. Joseph Waldmeir
Publisher: Michigan State Univ. Press
Place of Publication: East Lansing
Date: (1978)
Extent: 168-79

Notes: Argues in rather general terms for the importance to TJ of Kames's Essays on Morality and Natural Religion.

Reference: 2390
Author: Ostrander, Gilman M.
Title: "New Lost Worlds of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 7
Date: (1979)
Extent: 183-88

Notes: Review essay of books on TJ's philosophy; praises Garry Wills' emphasis on the importance of the Scottish Enlightenment but points out this is hardly the new idea Wills thinks it is.

Reference: A56
Author: Otis, William Bradley
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Great American Liberals, ed. Gabriel Richard Mason
Publisher: Starr King Press,
Place of Publication: Boston:
Date: (1956)
Extent: 17-24.

Notes: Conventional sketch; claims that if TJ were alive in 1956 he would surely be a Democrat in sympathy "with desires for more widespread, increased, economic well-being," but he would be critical of some aspects of the latter days of the New Deal.

Reference: 890
Author: Otis, William Bradley
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Great American Liberals, ed. Gabriel Richard Mason
Publisher: Starr King Press
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1956)
Extent: 17-24

Notes: TJ a great leader produced by a great crisis.

Reference: 891
Author: Ottenburg, Louis
Title: "A Testamentary Tragedy: Jefferson and the Wills of General Kosciuszko."
Publication: American Bar Association Journal
Volume: 44
Date: (1958)
Extent: 22-26

Notes: Kosciuszko left four wills and three estates in three countries when he died in 1817; TJ, named executor in the first will, declined the executorship because of his age. It took 30 years to settle the estate.

Reference: 1302
Author: Owsley, Frank L., Jr. and Gene A. Smith
Title: Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Place of Publication: Tuscaloosa
Date: (1997)
Extent: pp. xi, 241.

Notes: First two chapters on "Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny" and "The Philosophy of Jeffersonian Expansion" (pp. 7-31) discuss TJ's expansionist aims and his desire to add Florida to the nation, relying on diplomatic gestures and the extragovernmental actions of people on the ground. Detailed account of actions in Florida, but somewhat general on TJ and his expansionist thinking and activities.

Reference: 1866
Author: Owsley, Frank Lawrence
Title: "The Foundations of Democracy."
Publication: Southern Review
Volume: 1
Date: (1936)
Extent: 708-20

Notes: Argues that through control of the courts the Hamiltonians have subverted TJ's vision of liberty, i.e. state rights, strict construction, and laissez faire; claims the Fourteenth Amendment is a plutocratic instrument.

Reference: 2391
Author: Owsley, Frank L.
Title: "Two Agrarian Philosophers: Jefferson and DuPont de Nemours."
Publication: Hound & Horn
Volume: 6
Date: (1932)
Extent: 166-72

Notes: Review essay emphasizes TJ as a southern thinker and contends his "whole national outlook changed after the Missouri controversy."

Reference: 3161
Author: Owsley, Clifford
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His First Inaugural"
Publication: Inaugural
Publisher: Olympic Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1964)
Extent: 126-41

Notes: An eccentric rhetorical analysis of TJ's speech; finds it a "great speech" with a "Survival quotient" of 85 out of a possible 100 points.