Reference: 3208
Author: Radbill, Samuel X.
Title: "Dr. Robley Dunglison and Jefferson."
Publication: Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Volume: 4th ser. 27
Date: (1959)
Extent: 40-44

Notes: Sketches TJ's relationship with Dunglison and the latter's career after 1826.

Reference: 3209
Author: Radbill, Samuel X.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Doctors."
Publication: Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Volume: 4th ser. 37
Date: (1969)
Extent: 106-14

Notes: Sketch of TJ's medical opinions and his doctor acquaintances, e.g. Waterhouse, Rush, Dunglison.

Reference: 995
Author: Radcliff, Robert R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Chessplayer."
Publication: Chess Life
Volume: 36
Date: (1981)
Extent: 24-28

Notes: Account of TJ's interest in chess.

Reference: 3210
Author: Raffensperger, Edwin B.
Title: "Who Killed the Logan Family?"
Publication: Potter's American Monthly
Volume: 11
Date: (1878)
Extent: 187-93

Notes: Claims Michael Cresap did not kill Logan's family and that Logan could not have made the speech ascribed to him in TJ's Notes.

Reference: 2418
Author: Rager, John C.
Title: "Catholic Sources and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Catholic Mind
Volume: 28
Date: (1930)
Extent: 253-68

Notes: Supports the Bellarmine/Declaration thesis, claiming the Declaration is an expression of both the American mind and "the Catholic mind, medieval and modern."

Reference: 688
Author: Ragsdale, Jack S.
Title: "What Did Thomas Jefferson Mean by "I have not yet lost a tooth by age"?
Publication: Journal of the American Dental Association
Volume: 108
Date: (April, 1984)
Extent: 643-44.

Notes: TJ had more dental problems than his boast to Dr. Vine Utley would suggest. His account books record payments to dentists as early as 1772, and he had a tooth extracted by Thomas Bruff in November 1808. He seemed to distinguish between losing a tooth because of age and from other causes. Argues that TJ was a believer in preventive dentistry, although this would hardly seem to be true in the modern sense of the term.

Reference: 355
Author: Rahe, Paul
Title: "Church and State."
Publication: American Spectator
Volume: 19
Date: (January, 1986)
Extent: 18-23.

Notes: Discusses TJ's and Madison's position on church state relations, with focus on TJ. Describes him as a "a bitterly anticlerical Deist, prepared to sniff the approach of tyranny on every new breeze,' but also as "an eloquent proponent of religion." TJ and Madison wished to encourage a multiplicity of sects in order to remove the threat of theocratic domination (as did Adam Smith), but they also recognized the role of religious belief in underwriting the morality of citizens. Argues that if TJ and Madison vigorously opposed any connection between church and state, they also favored support for religion in general. A well-informed essay, more convincing, perhaps, in its portrayal of TJ's anticlericalism than in his belief that the state ought to support religion in general.

Reference: 802
Author: Rahe, Paul A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Spirit of Popular Resistance" and "A Republican Distribution of Citizens" in Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution .
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Place of Publication: Chapel Hill
Date: (1992)
Extent: 687-747.

Notes: TJ discussed in passing elsewhere in this important study, but these two chapters focus particularly on the fateful collision of republican principles and the problem of slavery in his thought and heritage. The first chapter examines his principled opposition to Hamiltonian policy, especially to the recommendations of the “Report on ... Manufactures.” The victory of 1800 “unwittingly restored to the sates something of the supremacy which they had possessed under the Articles of Confederation,” a perilous move for a republic divided by the question of slavery. However, TJ and Madison recognized, unlike the Federalists, the need for a “new species of demotic virtue ... [that] could and must be fashioned from the popular penchant for resistance to authority.” For TJ support for education and freedom of conscience served this end. The second chapter examines TJ's agrarianism and suspicion of cities, and it traces the malign consequences of its encouragement of sectional divisions and suspicions based upon notions of the superior virtue of agricultural states as well as the continuation of a predominately agricultural, slave-holding society in the South.

Reference: 1196
Author: Rahe, Paul
Title: “Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian Political Science,”
Publication: Review of Politics
Volume: 57
Date: (1995)
Extent: 449-81.

Notes: Although TJ does not show any apparent interest in Machiavelli, his commitment to limited government, his advocacy of a politics of distrust, his populism, his ultimate understanding of executive power, and his intentions behind his revisions of the Virginia laws only make sense, Rahe argues, when understood in the light of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy . Sees TJ as defined by his determination to resist the encroachment of the human “wolves” who seek to impose themselves on their fellow citizens in a republic.

Reference: 1373
Author: Rahe, Paul
Title: "Jefferson's Machiavellian Moment"
Publication: Reason and Republicanism , ed. McDowell and Noble
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication: Lanham MD.
Date: (1997)
Extent: 53-84.

Notes: Argues for influence, albeit indirect, of Machiavelli's republican thought, as articulated in his
Title: Discourses on Livy.
on TJ. This is revealed in TJ's "commitment to limited government, his advocacy of a politics of distrust, his eager embrace of a species of populism, his ultimate understanding of the executive power, and the intention guiding the comprehensive legislative program he devised for Virginia." A thoughtful discussion that makes a good case for a general cultural influence of Machiavellian republicanism (rather than a direct influence) in spite of TJ's expressed derogation of Machiavellian politics.

Reference: 3211
Author: Raiden, Edward
Title: Mr. Jefferson's Burr: A Play in Three Acts
Publisher: Thunder Publishing
Place of Publication: Los Angeles
Date: (1960)
Extent: pp. 140

Notes: Shakespeare it's not.

Reference: 1197
Author: Rakove, Jack N.
Title: “The Liberal Prince on the Democratic Seesaw,”
Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 23
Date: (1995)
Extent: 582-87.

Notes: Critical response to Richard Mathews's If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason (1995). Although Mathews gets many facts about Madison right, his conclusions “fall somewhere between wrong-headed and silly. ” Rejects Mathews's claim that Madison's differences with TJ were more important and consequential than their shared antipathy to Hamilton. Accuses Mathews's presentation of TJ to be “a caricature. ”

Reference: 1374
Author: Rakove, Jack N.
Title: "Jefferson Perceived"
Publication: Journal of the Early Republic
Volume: 17
Date: (1997)
Extent: 677-85.

Notes: Review essay of books by Ellis, Burstein, and Gordon-Reed, along with a dismissive comment on Ken Burns's TV special. Puts these in the context of strong recent, continuing interest in TJ that owes to his being "the touchstone for our own efforts to come to grips with the sources of American racial attitudes and practices." Also, and no less important, he is simply more interesting than any of his contemporaries and few of his contemporaries of any time.

Reference: 3212
Author: Ralston, Samuel Moffett
Title: "The Thomas Jefferson Theory of Education"
Publication: Indiana University, 1820-1920; Centennial Memorial Volume
Publisher: Indiana Univ
Place of Publication: Bloomington
Date: (1921)
Extent: 179-91

Notes: Survey.

Reference: 840
Author: Randall, Willard Sterne
Title: Thomas Jefferson: A Life .
Publisher: Henry Holt
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1993)
Extent: pp. xix, 708.

Notes: Badly proportioned biography, eg. spends over 130 pages on TJ in France, only 50 on the years of his presidency and 10 on the last two decades of his life. Also shows signs of hasty and sloppy research. Merrill Peterson's and Noble Cunningham's one volume biographies offer more balanced treatment, Joseph Ellis's has a more interesting, challenging point of view.

Reference: 948
Author: Randall, Willard Stern
Title: "Pacifist at War"
Publication: MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Volume: 5
Date: (#4 1993)
Extent: 34-43.

Notes: Good account of TJ's experiences as war-time governor of Virginia and of the invasions of Arnold and Cornwallis. Adapted from the author's biography described above. No sources cited.

Reference: 1269
Author: Randall, Willard Sterne
Title: “Thomas Jefferson Takes a Vacation,”
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 47
Date: (July-August, 1996)
Extent: 74-85.

Notes: Good, detailed account of TJ's 1791 trip with James Madison through upstate New York and New England.

Reference: 996
Author: Randall, Henry S.
Title: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Derby and Jackson
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1858)
Extent: 3 vols. pp. xxiv, 645; xii, 694; xii, 731

Notes: Major biography written in the nineteenth century; Randall had access to sources unavailable to earlier writers and sought information from people who had known TJ.

Reference: 997
Author: Randall, J. G.
Title: "When Jefferson's Home Was Bequeathed to the United States."
Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 23
Date: (1924)
Extent: 35-39. 1 17

Notes: On Uriah P. Levy's will, disposing of Monticello.

Reference: 998
Author: Randall, Samuel Jackson
Title: An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penna., Ninety-eighth Commencement
Publisher: George H. McCully & Co.
Place of Publication: n.p.
Date: (1882)
Extent: pp. 20

Notes: Laudatory biographical survey of TJ.

Reference: 1914
Author: Randall, J.G.
Title: George Washington and Entangling Alliances
Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 30
Date: (1931)
Extent: 221-29

Notes: The phrase is in fact TJ's and fit his conception of foreign policy, even though Washington gets credit.

Reference: 3213
Author: Randall, David
Title: "'Dukedom Large Enough': III. Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America
Volume: 56
Date: (1962)
Extent: 472-80

Notes: Rare book dealer and librarian discusses collecting Jeffersoniana; rpt. in Dukedom Large Enough. New York: Random House, 1969. 273-80.

Reference: 949
Author: Randolph, Laura B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Black and White Descendants Debate His Lineage and Legacy."
Publication: Ebony
Volume: 48
Date: (July, 1993)
Extent: 25-29.

Notes: On the claims of the descendants of Thomas Woodson to descent from TJ and Sally Hemings. Robert Cooley, III, a member of the Woodson family was moved by white scholar's disparagement of the likelihood of the TJ-Hemings relationship to speak out at the 1992 Jeffersonian Legacies conference about the oral history of the Woodson family. In 1993 the Woodson family association met at Monticello.

Reference: 999
Author: Randolph, Sarah N.
Title: The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences
Publisher: Harper Bros
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1871)
Extent: pp. xiii, 432

Notes: The private Jefferson, by his great-granddaughter. Still useful, often reprinted.

Reference: 1000
Author: Randolph, Sarah N.
Title: "Mrs. Thomas Mann Randolph"
Publication: Worthy Women of Our First Century, ed. Mrs. O. d. Wister and Miss Agnes Irwin
Publisher: Lippincott
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1877)
Extent: 9-70

Notes: Biographical sketch of Martha Jefferson Randolph.

Reference: 1001
Author: Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Title: Jefferson Papers. Memorial of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Virginia, in Regard to the Purchase and Publication by Congress of the Manuscripts of Mr. Jefferson. December 30, 1847. Read and Laid on the Table
Publication: 30th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives
Volume: Miscellaneous, No. 7.
Date: (191?)
Extent: none

Notes: Offers for sale a collection of about forty thousand letters and three boxed volumes of opinions as Secretary of State.

Reference: 1002
Author: Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Title: The Last Days of Jefferson
Publication: Jeffersonian Print
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1873)
Extent: Broadside

Notes: Comments on James Parton's article in the Atlantic Monthly (#931 above); criticizes numerous inaccuracies in Edmund Bacon's reminiscences and defends Thomas Mann Randolph.

Reference: 1915
Author: Randolph, Sarah N.
Title: The Kentucky Resolutions in a New Light
Publication: Nation
Volume: 44
Date: (1887)
Extent: 382-84

Notes: Role of TJ in promoting the Kentucky Resolutions by way of meetings with Wilson Cary Nicholas and the Breckinridges.

Reference: 3214
Author: Randolph, Frederick J. and Frederick L. Francis
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as Meteorologist."
Publication: Monthly Weather Review
Volume: 23
Date: (1895)
Extent: 456-58

Notes: Notes TJ's meteorological apparatus at Monticello, describes his record-keeping; TJ was the first American to describe the phenomenon of temperature inversion.

Reference: 3215
Author: Randolph, Jane Cary Harrison
Title: Thomas Jefferson. Monticello Music, 1785
Publisher: Cary N. Randolph
Place of Publication: St. Louis
Date: (1941)
Extent: pp. 24

Notes: Music and words for eight songs, no comment.

Reference: 3216
Author: Raphael, Henry
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Astronomer
Publication: Leaflet No. 174
Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Place of Publication: San Francisco
Date: (1943)
Extent: pp. 8

Notes: Survey.

Reference: 574
Author: Rastorfer, Darl
Title: "Reroofing a Landmark."
Publication: Architectural Record
Volume: 177
Date: (February, 1989)
Extent: 124-27.

Notes: Reroofing residential buildings of TJ's academical village has led to the discovery of a system of tinplated metal shingles he devised for eight of the pavilions and a different system of serrated wooden "rooflets" he used on two pavilions and the student dormitories. Describes his interest in and experiments with metal roofing materials and techniques.

Reference: 269
Author: Ratzlaff, Robert K.
Title: "The Evolution of a Gentleman-Politician: John Rutledge, Jr., of South Carolina."
Publication: Midwest Quarterly
Volume: 27
Date: (1985)
Extent: 77-95.

Notes: TJ, while Minister to France, served Rutledge, then making his Grand Tour, as adviser, sponsor, and banker. Rutledge returned to South Carolina with a strong personal attachment to TJ, but this disappeared in the contentious atmosphere of the late 1790's as Rutledge turned Federalist.

Reference: 1003
Author: Raumer, Frederick von
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: America and the American People
Publisher: J. and H. G. Langley
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1846)
Extent: 87-109

Notes: Sketch by a German traveler and historian, sympathetic to the American experiment.

Reference: 3217
Author: Rauschenberg, Bradford L.
Title: "William John Coffee, Sculptor-Painter: His Southern Experience."
Publication: Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Volume: 4
Date: (1978)
Extent: 26-48

Notes: Includes discussion of the po-~ait busts done of TJ's family.

Reference: 3218
Author: Ravier, Xavier
Title: "Thomas Jefferson et la Langue d'oc."
Publication: Annales du Midi
Volume: 90
Date: (1978)
Extent: 41-52

Notes: Consideration of TJ's remarks on Provencal in his letter of March 29, 1787 to William Short as significant for "I'histoire de la langue occitane en particulier et l'histoire des idees linguistiques en general."

Reference: 1004
Author: Rayner, B. L.
Title: Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private Correspondence
Publisher: A. Francis and W. Boardman
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1832)
Extent: pp. 556

Notes: First full length biography of TJ.

Reference: 1005
Author: Raynor, E. C.
Title: "Communication: Jefferson and John Leland."
Publication: Granite Monthly
Volume: 8
Date: (1885)
Extent: 240

Notes: Rejects the accusation that TJ paid Leland for the mammoth cheese.

Reference: 514
Author: Reck, Andrew. J.
Title: "Heart and Head: The Mind of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Doctrine and Experience: Essays in American Philosophy, ed. Vincent G. Potter.
Publisher: Fordham University Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1988)
Extent: 22-47.

Notes: Survey of TJ's intellectual range and accomplishments. Uses the famous Heart and Head letter to Maria Cosway as a means to present both TJ's allegiance to moral sense theory as well as to Epicureanism and, in larger terms, his commitment to limitations upon theory posed by life as it must be lived in actual nature and society. Sees TJ's belief in equality and in a natural aristocracy as paradoxical, and claims that he understood equality in the Declaration as human equality "in respect to their having been created by God," a problematic interpretation if one wishes to read the Declaration in the context of a discourse of natural rights.

Reference: 750
Author: Reck, Andrew J.
Title: "The Declaration of Independence."
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics
Volume: 44
Date: (1991)
Extent: 549-74

Notes: Contends that the "crowning achievements of the Enlightenment in the sphere of politics and law" are the Declaration, Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Reviews philosophical background of the Declaration in Locke, Hutcheson, and Burlamaqui and provides a systematic discussion of its four parts which form "a compressed practical syllogism." The first paragraph gives the purpose and sets the whole in the context of natural law. The second paragraph gives a general theory of rights and government, although its enumerated rights present problems as to meaning and application. Discusses the Lockean source for the notion of "self-evident truths" and notes that TJ later moved toward moral sense philosophy, away from the more Lockean position here. The list of charges adumbrates a theory of the British Empire as a league of states under one king, similar to what TJ and James Wilson had separately argued in 1774. The conclusion declares independence but presents a political problematic in that it opposes to the opening's grounding in a single People a claim to speak for 13 separate and equal states.

Reference: A64
Author: Reck, Andrew J.
Title: "The American Revolution, A Philosophical Interpretation."
Publication: Southwestern Journal of Philosophy
Volume: 8
Date: (Summer, 1977)
Extent: 95-104.

Notes: Sees the Declaration as "the culmination of fifteen years of revolutionary struggle," and asserts its importance for defining human rights as natural rights. Fundamental to the revolution expressed in the Declaration is the proposition of the natural equality of man. Too brief to do justice to the issues and has little to say about TJ as author.

Reference: A65
Author: Reck, Andrew J.
Title: "The Declaration of Independence as `An Expression of the American Mind.'"
Publication: Revue Internationale de Philosophie
Volume: 31
Date: (1977)
Extent: 401-37.

Notes: If the Declaration is viewed as "a structure of cognitive meanings," it has two main parts, a general philosophy of government and a theory of the British Empire. Offers a survey of representative thinkers to show that its philosophy of government was generally accepted in America, even by opponents of Independence, but its theory of British Empire was shared only by the patriots. The Declaration thus expresses the American mind at the moment of the birth of the American nation, but a mind expressing itself is a mind making itself up, i.e. rejecting what can not be harmonized with or subordinated to its decisive conclusion. Hence this expression of mind excluded Loyalist/Tory conservatism for the moment, but the resurfacing of these excluded strains in later years argues that the Declaration is not the only expression of the American mind forever thereafter. TJ's "harmonizing sentiments," however, express the American mind not by duplicating its contents but by proclaiming what is morally best in it, its appeal against discredited institutions and its appeal to reason as exercised in the individual mind.

Reference: 1007
Author: Reckley, Gladys
Title: "The Shadwell Reconstruction."
Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 28
Date: (1961)
Extent: 20

Notes: Account of efforts to find site of house TJ was born in and to build an approximate reconstruction.

Reference: 46
Author: Redenius, Charles
Title: "The Struggle for Equality to 1789"
Publication: The American Ideal of Equality from Jefferson's Declaration to the Burger Court
Publisher: Kennikat Press,
Place of Publication: Port Washington, NY:
Date: (1981)
Extent: 8-24.

Notes: Describes TJ as the great articulator of the ideal of equality which has exerted a continuing power on later generations, beyond his own understanding of the ideal in some cases. Claims that because he was abroad in 1787, of the "triad of ideas" that have dominated American political thought only property and liberty gained a full hearing. Hamilton succeeded in linking liberty to property at the expense of TJ's connection of equality and liberty. "Whereas Jefferson had struck `property' from Locke's phrase, Hamilton not only restored it, he also elevated it to a position of preeminence." Hardly a new point and made by simplifying both TJ and Hamilton.

Reference: 219
Author: Reeb, Richard H., Jr.
Title: "Through a Text Faintly: The Declaration of Independence as Seen by Current Political Science."
Publication: Journal of the Association for the Improvement of Community College Teaching
Volume: 1
Date: (Spring-Summer, 1984)
Extent: 57-63.

Notes: The Declaration is not generally taken very seriously by the authors of college textbooks in American government, and the author thinks this cuts students off from the revolutionary roots of their republican regime and undercuts the legitimacy of all movements for equality, liberty, and government by consent of the governed. Examines treatments given to the Declaration by leading textbooks which range from those which give it an early significant mention but then drop it for the rest of the book to those seek to diminish both its status and its principles, arguing that TJ as a slaveholder never had any intention of putting equality and liberty into practice in the United States. Students taught by such books too easily come to the conclusion that the U. S. is based "on convenient and useful fictions or myths" which are "a matter of ultimate indifference to the social scientist."

Reference: 1008
Author: Reed, Stanley E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 99
Date: (1965)
Extent: 584-85

Notes: no note

Reference: 3219
Author: Reed, O. E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson in Agriculture."
Publication: Journal of Dairy Science
Volume: 27
Date: (1944)
Extent: 613-66

Notes: no note

Reference: 707
Author: Reef, Catherine.
Title: Monticello.
Publisher: Dillon Press,
Date: (1991)
Extent: pp. 71

Notes: Juvenile, ages 9-12.

Reference: 575
Author: Regis, Pamela Thompson
Title: "Natural History and the American Literature of Place, 1765-1789." Ph.D. dissertation. Johns Hopkins University,
Publication: DAI 2056-A.
Volume: 50
Date: (1989)
Date: (1990)
Extent: 261.

Notes: Discusses William Bartram, TJ, and Crevecoeur as practitioners of the scientific discourse of eighteenth-century natural history. Epitomized by the taxonomic lists of Linnaeus and others, it tended to fix its object in a static, ahistorical description. Contends that natural history is "the primary intellectual framework" of Notes , and that as a consequence of this framework it fails to do justice to the history being made at the moment in white Virginia and it eliminates any trace of the history of blacks or native Americans. An interesting thesis, somewhat simplistically applied in the case of TJ.

Reference: 803
Author: Regis, Pamela
Title: "Jefferson and the Department of Man" in Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, and the Rhetoric of Natural History .
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Place of Publication: DeKalb
Date: (1992)
Extent: 79-105.

Notes: Natural history is the key to Notes on the State of Virginia , contributing its organization and rhetoric, but natural history fails TJ in his representation of blacks and Indians. Blacks elude both natural historical and legal classification, and Indians are deprived of a civil and political history, being seen as mere natural historical artifacts.

Reference: 950
Author: Rehnquist, William H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Contemporaries."
Publication: Journal of Law and Politics
Volume: 9
Date: (1993)
Extent: 595-608.

Notes: Praises TJ as a champion of individual liberty even though he “did not capture the necessity of structuring the government in order to fully effectuate these ideals” as Hamilton and Marshall did. Discusses TJ's confrontations with Marshall in the Samuel Chase impeachment and the Burr trial.

Reference: 1009
Author: Reid, Whitelaw
Title: One Welshman, A Glance at a Great Career
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: London
Date: (1912)
Extent: pp. 59

Notes: Career of that great Welsh-American, TJ; the inaugural address of the autumn session of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1912, controversial because of its Hamiltonian-Federalist point of view. See Peterson, The Jefferson Image, p. 339.

Reference: 1010
Author: Reid, Whitelaw
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: American and English Studies
Publisher: Scribner's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1913)
Extent: 2:37-70

Notes: Version of One Welshman of the previous year.

Reference: 2419
Author: Reid, Bill G.
Title: "The Agrarian Tradition and Urban Problems."
Publication: Midwest Quarterly
Volume: 6
Date: (1964)
Extent: 75-86

Notes: TJ's agrarianism is still deeply rooted in American thinking.

Reference: 356
Author: Reinhold, Meyer
Title: "The Classical World"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (see above).
Publisher: Scribners,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1986)
Extent: 135-156.

Notes: A sometimes meandering but thorough and suggestive account of TJ's classical scholarship, his various uses of classical ideas, topoi , and material forms, and his understanding of the place of the classics in modern education. While amply demonstrating TJ's love of the classics, observes that his "classical knowledge thins out in a sort of reductive simplicity" when judged by the standards of scholarship in our time. Notes in addition that his love of the classics did not prevent him as a "future-minded pragmatist" from criticizing the limitations of the Greek and Roman world. An excellent essay on this subject.

Reference: 1013
Author: Remington, Frank L.
Title: "The Amazing Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: The Link, A Magazine for Armed Forces Personnel
Volume: 31
Date: (1973)
Extent: 5-10

Notes: no note

Reference: 2420
Author: Remsburg, John E.
Title: The Fathers of Our Republic: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin. A Lecture Delivered Before the Tenth Annual Congress of the American Secular Union, in Chickering Hall. New York, November 13, 1886
Publisher: J. P. Mendum
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1887)
Extent: pp. vi, 45

Notes: TJ as freethinker, the enemy of priestcraft, on pp. 13-22.

Reference: 2421
Author: Remsburg, John E.
Title: Jefferson an Unbeliever
Publisher: Published by the Author
Place of Publication: Atchison, Kan.
Date: (1882)
Extent: pp. 12

Notes: TJ as freethinker, anti-clerical and materialist.

Reference: 2422
Author: Remsburg, John Eleazer
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Six Historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant, Fathers and Saviors of Our Republic, Freethinkers
Publisher: Truth Seeker Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1906)
Extent: 65-96

Notes: Revised and expanded version of item #2420.

Reference: 1916
Author: Renault, Raoul
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada
Publication: North American Notes and Queries
Volume: 1
Date: (1901)
Extent: 201-09,233-44

Notes: After TJ lamented the burning of Washington, Rev. John Strachan of Upper cnada replied with an open letter of Canadian grievances; prints Strachan's letter.

Reference: 576
Author: Renker, Elizabeth M.
Title: "`Declaration-men' and the Rhetoric of Self-Presentation."
Publication: Early American Literature
Volume: 24
Date: (1989)
Extent: 120-34.

Notes: Examines autobiographical texts and letters to each other of TJ, John Adams, and Benjamin Rush in order to reveal the process of self-inscription in history by men who knew that they were writing for posterity. Rush took his seat in Congress on July 20, 1776 and thus, while a signer, was not present for the deliberations. He identified himself in terms of the group of signers. Adams was proud of the importance of the document but jealous of the fame it brought TJ; his jealousy was particularly apparent during the disruption of their friendship. TJ, less obviously anxious, expressed concern about claims for priority on the part of Samuel Chase and of the Mecklenburg Declaration.

Reference: 2423
Author: Renwick, John
Title: "Marmontel on the Government of Virginia (1783)."
Publication: Journal of American Studies
Volume: 1
Date: (1967)
Extent: 181-89

Notes: Transcription of Marmonters mss. "Observations d'un ami des Amereicains sur le Gouvernement de la Virginie." Notes Marmonters views follow TJ's closely but sees coincidence rather than influence.

Reference: 3220
Author: Reps, John W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Checkerboard Towns."
Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 20
Date: (1961)
Extent: 108-14

Notes: TJ proposed an alternating open square plan for Jeffersonville, Ind. which was later tried in Jackson, Miss. ; good account.

Reference: 3221
Author: Reston, James B.
Title: "New Washington Vista."
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: (1941)
Extent: 23

Notes: The Jefferson Memorial.

Reference: 1014
Author: Revis, Anne
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Charlottesville."
Publication: National Geographic Magazine
Volume: 97
Date: (1950)
Extent: 553-92

Notes: Charlottesville past and present and TJ's impress upon it.

Reference: 1198
Author: Reynolds, Catharine
Title: “Thomas Jefferson in Paris,”
Publication: Gourmet
Volume: 55
Date: (October, 1995)
Extent: 68-74, 85-86.

Notes: Selective account of TJ's stay in Paris with a focus on buildings and business that are still in existence.

Reference: 1015
Author: Rhinesmith, W. Donald
Title: "Henry Stephens Randall and His Life of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Essays in History
Volume: 10
Date: (1965)
Extent: 5-28

Notes: How Randall wrote his three-volume biography of TJ.

Reference: 1016
Author: Rhinesmith, W. Donald
Title: "Henry Stephens Randall: Nineteenth-Century Democrat and Biographer of Jefferson."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1965)
Extent: pp. 169

Notes: Chapter V, "Writing a Biography," discusses Randall's authorship of his life of TJ.

Reference: 1918
Author: Rhinesmith, William Donald
Title: Joseph Dennie, Critic of Jeffersonian Democracy
Publication: Essays in History
Volume: 7
Date: (1962)
Extent: 37-52

Notes: Focus on Dennie, High Federalist editor of The Port Folio, 1801-1809.

Reference: 1017
Author: Rhodes, Thomas L.
Title: The Story of Monticello, As Told by Thomas L. Rhodes, For Nearly Forty Years Superintendent of Monticello, to Frank B. Lord
Publisher: American Publishing Co.
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1928)
Extent: pp. 94

Notes: Sketch of TJ's life, account of Monticello through the years by Jefferson M. Levy's superintendent.

Reference: 1919
Author: Rhodes, Irwin S.
Title: What Really Happened to the Jefferson Subpoenas
Publication: American Bar Association Journal
Volume: 60
Date: (1974)
Extent: 52-54

Notes: Contends TJ's "claim to an exclusive exercise of executive privilege. . . was upheld by Chief Justice Marshall," and courts in the Watergate case seem to be denying Marshall's ruling. See, however, item #1394.

Reference: 2425
Author: Riaume, Jean-Marc
Title: "Thomas Jefferson et la frontiere."
Publication: Seminaires
Place of Publication: Talence: Centre de Recherches sur l'Amerique Anglophone, Univ. de Bordeaux III
Date: (1979)
Extent: 52-60

Notes: no note

Reference: 357
Author: Ricard, Serge
Title: "Cautious Rationalism in the Early Republic: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery"
Publication: Institution Particuliere: Aspects de l'Esclavage aux Etats-Unis, ed. Jean-Pierre Martin et Serge Ricard.
Publisher: Publications de Universite de Provence,
Place of Publication: Aix-en-Provence:
Date: (1986)
Extent: 21-32.

Notes: Notes that we are struck by the disparity between promise and performance in TJ's attitude toward slavery. Examines his racial thinking as a hindrance to the carrying out of his expressed antipathy to the institution of slavery. After the Missouri Compromise, however, he feared the combination of slavery and sectionalism would make civil war inevitable.

Reference: 689
Author: Rice, Philip Arthur II
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Balance of Power Principle."
Publication: M.A. thesis.
Publisher: California State University at Fullerton,
Date: (1969)
Extent: pp. 87.

Reference: 841
Author: Rice, Kym
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Design of Monticello .
Publisher: American Architectural Foundation at the Octagon Museum
Place of Publication: Washington D. C.
Date: (1993)
Extent: pp. 36.

Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition that appeared at the Equitable Gallery in NYC, the MIT Museum in Cambridge, and the Octagon Museum in Washington between October 1993 and April 1994.

Reference: A66
Author: Rice, Otis K.
Title: "Introduction" to A Biographical Sketch of the Late Michael Cresap by John Jeremiah Jacob.
Publisher: McClain Printing Co.,
Place of Publication: Parsons, WV:
Date: (1971)
Extent: 1-48.

Notes: Scholarly introduction to Jacob's 1826 defense of Cresap (see #2918 in TJCAB ) covers the events in Lord Dunmore's War leading up to Logan's speech, its transmission, and the controversy evoked by TJ's use of it in Notes . Concludes that much of TJ's evidence appeared "irrefutable, and his honest and sincere effort to get at the truth disarmed many of his critics." Luther Martin's efforts to use this issue to discredit TJ failed, and Jacob wrote his book mostly in response to Joseph Doddridge's Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania (1824).

Reference: 1018
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Chastellux at Monticello, 1782."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 98
Date: (1970)
Extent: 42-43

Notes: no note

Reference: 1019
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: L'Hotel de Langeac, Jefferson's Paris Residence, Residence de Jefferson a Paris, 1785-1789
Publisher: Librarie Henri Lefebfre; Monticello: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Place of Publication: Paris
Date: (1947)
Extent: pp. 25. 14 illustrations.

Notes: Bi-lingual description with drawings and engravings of TJ's residence for most of his stay in Paris.

Reference: 1020
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Jefferson in Europe a Century and a Half Later: Notes of a Roving Researcher."
Publication: Princeton Univ. Library Chronicle
Volume: 12
Date: (1950)
Extent: 19-35

Notes: Describes efforts to find TJ manuscripts and related materials in 1946-48; sheds light on TJ's experiences in Europe.

Reference: 1021
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson a Strasbourg (1788)."
Publication: Cahiers Alsaciens d'Archeologie d'Art et d'Histoire
Volume: 1
Date: (1958)
Extent: 137-53

Notes: Fascinating account of what TJ managed to do in 3 days.

Reference: 1022
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Paris
Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Princeton
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp. ix, 156

Notes: Handsomely illustrated, authoritative account of where TJ went and what he saw in Paris.

Reference: 1023
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Paris."
Publication: University A Princeton Quarterly
Volume: 72
Date: (1977)
Extent: 19-24

Notes: Adapted from the book of the same title.

Reference: 1024
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Les Visites de Jefferson au Mont-Valerien."
Publication: Societe Historique de Suresnes. Bulletin
Volume: 3
Date: (1954)
Extent: 46-49

Notes: TJ visited the monastery at Mount Calvary, another name for Mount Valerien in Suresnes, near Paris.

Reference: 1920
Author: Rice, Philip A., II
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Balance of Power Principle, 1783-1793
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: California State Univ
Place of Publication: Fullerton
Date: (1969)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 3222
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: "A French Source of Jefferson's Plan for the Prison at Richmond."
Publication: Journal of the Societ~ of Architectural Historians
Volume: 12
Date: (1953)
Extent: 28-30

Notes: TJ had seen in France plans for a prison by Pierre-Gabriel Bugniet.

Reference: 3223
Author: Rice, Howard, C., Jr.
Title: "Jefferson's Gift of Fossils to the Museum of Natural History in Paris."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 95
Date: (1951)
Extent: 597-627

Notes: Account of TJ's gift in 1808 of fossils from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, to the National Institute of France; these gave Cuvier "essential evidence for his description and 'reconstruction' of two extinct species."

Reference: 3224
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: "A 'New' Likeness of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 6
Date: (1949)
Extent: 84-89

Notes: Account of the portrait made by Edme Quenedey.

Reference: 3225
Author: Rice, Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Saint-Memin's Portrait of Jefferson."
Publication: Princeton University Library Chronicle
Volume: 20
Date: (1959)
Extent: 182-92

Notes: Account of Saint-Memin's physiognotrace portrait of TJ and description of the two differing copperplate engravings he did from it.

Reference: 1921
Author: Rich, Bennet Milton
Title: The Embargo Troubles
Publication: The Presidents and Civil Disorder
Publication: The Brookings Institution
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1941)
Extent: 31-37

Notes: TJ's actions at times went beyond the letter of the law, but given the circumstances his response to resistance to the Embargo was creditable.

Reference: 577
Author: Richard, Carl J.
Title: "A Dialogue with the Ancients: Thomas Jefferson and Classical Philosophy and History."
Publication: Journal of the Early Republic
Volume: 9
Date: (1989)
Extent: 431-55.

Notes: Survey of TJ's use of classical philosophy. Finds that Epicurus gave him a cogent form of materialism, and the Stoics were a source of solace for his many griefs. Tacitus and other historians provided models of republican government, a large body of information, and a sense of identity and purpose. Well grounded in TJ's writings but offers few new insights.

Reference: 1032
Author: Richard, Carl J.
Title: The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment .
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date: (1994)
Extent: pp. viii, 295.

Notes: No single chapter devoted entirely to TJ, but he is discussed throughout. Book is organized in terms of the founders' uses of the classics as source for a symbolic language, as social and political models and anti-models, as ethical guides, etc. Of particular interest are passages on TJ and the use of classical architectural models, on pastoral republicanism, and on TJ and Epicurean thought, among others. In addition to TJ, discusses and occasionally compares him to Hamilton, Adams, Madison, James Wilson, Benjamin Rush, and Franklin. Typically looks at the historical and political context in which the founders drew upon the classics, and thus this work goes beyond earlier studies of the classics in this period which merely tended to demonstrate that the classics were widely read without paying as much attention to how they were used and the different ways in which they could be used.

Reference: 1114
Author: Richard, Carl J.
Title: The Louisiana Purchase .
Publisher: The Center for Louisiana Studies
Place of Publication: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.
Date: (1995)
Extent: pp. 59.

Notes: Brief, standard account of the background to and the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory.

Reference: 358
Author: Richards, David A. J.
Title: "Jefferson and Madison on Religious Toleration"
Publication: Toleration and the Constitution .
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1986)
Extent: 111-16.

Notes: TJ's Bill for Religious Freedom is "starkly Lockean," heavily influenced by Locke's writings on toleration, although the Virginia legislature removed some of the more philosophical bits. He went beyond Locke in three important ways: his bill makes no exception for Catholics or atheists; he understands toleration to be not only permitting the free exercise of religion but also the prohibition of any religious qualification for civil rights and of any compulsion of money to support religious beliefs, even one's own; if he echoes Locke's conception that conscience must be free because it harms no one, he puts limits "when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order" as well as proposing "free argument and debate" as the normal course to rebut error.

Reference: 1115
Author: Richards, Norman
Title: Monticello .
Publisher: Children's' Press,
Date: (1995)
Extent: p. 30.

Notes: Juvenile literature for ages 9-12.

Reference: 1025
Author: Richards, Norman
Title: The Story of Monticello
Publisher: Childrens Press
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date: (1970)
Extent: pp. 30

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 220
Author: Richardson, Robert D., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Colonial Writers, 1735-1781, ed. Emory Elliott.
Publisher: Gale Research Company,
Volume: vol. 31,
Place of Publication: Detroit:
Date: (1984)
Extent: 136-49.

Notes: Biographical essay which is particularly attentive to TJ's literary activities. Offers a balanced and thorough view, but emphasizes more than many accounts TJ's involvement with skeptical traditions of thought and circles of skeptical thinkers. Contends that "On balance, the Notes on the State of Virginia is the most remarkable book of its kind between Bradford's Of Plimmoth Plantation and Thoreau's Walden ."

Reference: 221
Author: Richardson, William D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson & Race: The Declaration and Notes on the State of Virginia."
Publication: Polity
Volume: 16
Date: (1984)
Extent: 447-66.

Notes: Argues that TJ believed that blacks were equal to all other men in terms of rights but that he did not hold that they should necessarily be enabled to become equal partners in the same polity with whites. Points to the Rough Draft of the Declaration where slaves are pointedly referred to as MEN (TJ's caps) and to Notes where the claims of the moral equality of blacks and whites are posited against discussion of physical differences, primarily color, which raise political arguments against a political community containing both blacks and whites.

Reference: 578
Author: Richardson, Janine
Title: "Shaping a Government of the People."
Publisher: Cobblestone
Volume: 10
Date: (September, 1989)
Extent: 27-32.

Notes: Juvenile. TJ as vice-president and resident of Philadelphia.

Reference: 1026
Author: Richardson, James D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: New Age
Volume: 6
Date: (1907)
Extent: 18-24, 114-22, 224-30

Notes: Cited in Writings on American History (1907), # 1454.

Reference: 2426
Author: Richardson, William D.
Title: "The Possibility of Harmony Between the Races: An Inquiry into the Thought of Jefferson, Toqueville, Lincoln and Melville."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: SUNY at Buffalo
Date: (1979)
Extent: pp. 286

Notes: Uses Notes to examine TJ's attitudes to the possibility of racial harmony. DAI 39/12A, p. 1502.

Reference: 3226
Author: Richardson, E. P.
Title: "A Life Drawing of Jefferson by John Trumbull."
Publication: American Art Journal
Volume: 7
Date: (1975)
Extent: 4-9

Notes: Reattribution of a pencil drawing from Latrobe to Trumbull; probably done in 1786 when Trumbull often saw TJ. Also printed in Maryland Historical Magazine. 70(1975), 363-71.

Reference: 3227
Author: Rickey, Homer G.
Title: "Memorandum on the German Edition of Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Library
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1952)
Extent: pp. 4

Notes: Mimeographed sheets; bibliographical note and translation of the introduction offered to the German edition (Leipzig, 1788-89), probably written by the publisher, Matthias Christian Sprengel.

Reference: 751
Author: Ridge, Martin.
Title: "In the Shadow of Jefferson: Explorers and the Great West,"
Publication: Montana
Volume: 4 (no. 4)
Date: (1991)
Extent: 2-3.

Notes: TJ's combination of scientific curiosity and sense of national self-interest projected an Enlightenment vision of exploration that became a paradigm for future explorations and surveys.

Reference: 3228
Author: Ridiman, Bob
Title: "Scientist Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Humpty-Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children
Volume: 24
Date: (1976)
Extent: 61-63

Notes: no note

Reference: 1027
Author: Ridpath, John Clark
Title: "Three Epochs of Democracy and Three Men."
Publication: Arena
Volume: 19
Date: (1898)
Extent: 543-63

Notes: TJ the "father of American Democracy."

Reference: 1922
Author: Ridpath, John Clark
Title: "Jeffersonian Democracy."
Publication: The Jeffersonian Democrat
Volume: 2
Date: (1899)
Extent: 438-44

Notes: Campaign rhetoric.

Reference: 951
Author: Riechers, Maggie
Title: "Monticello: Reflections of an Eclectic Mind."
Publication: Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Volume: 14
Date: (March/April 1993)
Extent: 8-12.

Notes: Account of the 1993 Monticello exhibit. Points out that beyond revealing the complexity of TJ's mind, the exhibit reveals his contradictions. Notes the role of women in the life at Monticello, and discusses TJ's relationships to various women in his life.

Reference: 2427
Author: Riemers, Neal
Title: "Revolutionary America: Jefferson's Empire of Liberty"
Publication: The Democratic Experiment: American Political Theory
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand
Place of Publication: Princeton
Date: (1967)
Extent: 1:91-121

Notes: For undergraduates; on the concept of the continuing revolution and the continuing majority.

Reference: 1923
Author: Riethmiller, Christopher James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries; or, The Rise of the American Constitution
Publisher: Bell and Daldy
Place of Publication: London
Date: (1864)
Extent: 269-302

Notes: Noble, high-minded Hamilton opposed by TJ, the crafty, sans-culotte.

Reference: 952
Author: Rigal, Laura
Title: "Peale's Mammoth" in American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art , ed. David C. Miller.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Place of Publication: New Haven
Date: (1993)
Extent: 18-38.

Notes: Interprets Charles Willson Peale's 1801 excavation of mastodon bones, the subsequent exhibition of them along with a painting of the excavation and his son Rembrandt's Disquisition in order to argue that the exhibit demonstrates that “the discursive framework of Jeffersonian-Republican political economy was (and remains the remains of) the machinery of production which produces and naturalizes the United States as a collective historical entity. ” Focus on the Peales and their project, but TJ and Jeffersonian political ideology treated throughout; throws light on the “mammoth” craze in the early years of TJ's presidency.

Reference: 2428
Author: Riley, I. Woodbridge
Title: "Virginia and Jefferson"
Publication: American Philosophy: The Early Schools
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1907)
Extent: 266-95

Notes: TJ "stood for liberty of thinking for its own sake." In his philosophy he was "more legal than logical," and was most influenced by Locke, Dugald Stewart, Cabanis, Destutt de Tracy. Emphasizes French influence.

Reference: 1028
Author: Riordan, Gertrude Frances
Title: The Little Desk of Independence
Publication: The Author
Place of Publication: Phoenix, Ariz.
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp. 32

Notes: no note

Reference: 708
Author: Risjord, Norman K.
Title: Jefferson's America.
Publisher: Madison House,
Place of Publication: Madison WI:
Date: (1991)

Notes: A history of Revolutionary era America in which anecdotal material from the life of TJ has been added "in order to give the tale a more human dimension." Good work of its sort, but not much direct focus on TJ. Intended for a non-specialist audience, so has no annotation.

Reference: 1033
Author: Risjord, Norman K.
Title: Thomas Jefferson .
Publisher: Madison House
Place of Publication: Madison
Date: (1994)
Extent: pp. xiii, 210.

Notes: A brief biography suitable for undergraduates. Focuses on TJ's political career and has a particular interest in explaining his life and career in terms of the thesis held by Joyce Appleby and others that TJ was an early supporter of liberal capitalism. Tends to be apologetic about all areas in which TJ's behavior or ideas have been called into question; calls the Sally Hemings story a “legend, utterly without factual foundation. ” Does give a good explanation of the significance of TJ's debts and how they were acquired (although there is an occasional falling back on to the simplistic notion that he was unwilling to compromise his taste for good wine, thus suggesting that he was an excessive consumer himself.) Good at summarizing complex issues in brief form.

Reference: A67
Author: Risjord, Norman K.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: A Summary View,"
Publication: Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation
Publisher: D. C. Heath,
Place of Publication: Lexington MA:
Date: (1980)
Extent: 231-252.

Notes: Biographical sketch in text growing out of a course on "Representative Americans," offered first by Bernard Mayo at the University of Virginia, later by the author at the University of Wisconsin.

Reference: 1924
Author: Risjord, Norman K.
Title: "The Compromise of 1790: New Evidence on the Dinner Table Bargain."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 33
Date: (1976)
Extent: 309-14

Notes: TJ's dinner invitation to Tench Coxe and James Madison, dated June 6, 1790, indicates negotiations over compromise concerning the assumption of state debts and location of the national capital were more complex than TJ later suggested in the Anas.

Reference: 1925
Author: Risjord, Norman K.
Title: "A New Meaning for Jefferson's Democracy."
Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 1
Date: (1973)
Extent: 88-95

Notes: Review essay on Ellis, The Jeffersonian Crisis.

Reference: 47
Author: Ritcheson, Charles R.
Title: "The Fragile Memory: Thomas Jefferson at the Court of George III."
Publication: Eighteenth-Century Life
Volume: 6
Date: (no. 2-3)
Extent: 1-16.

Notes: Nothing out of the ordinary happened. TJ's account in his "Autobiography" of George III's "ungracious" attitude at a levee in 1786 was inaccurately remembered and highly colored by his hatred for the King. The detail about George turning his back on TJ and Adams was added by C. F. Adams in the 1850's.

Reference: 48
Author: Ritcheson, Charles R.
Title: "The Fragile Memory: What Really Happened When Thomas Jefferson Met George III."
Publication: American Heritage.
Volume: 33
Date: (December, 1981)
Extent: 72-77.

Notes: Essentially the same as the previous item, without scholarly apparatus.

Reference: 1926
Author: Ritcheson, Charles R.
Title: "Collision with Secretary Jefferson"
Publication: Aftermath of Revolution: British Policy Toward the United States 1783-1795
Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Dallas
Date: (1969)
Extent: 231-42

Notes: Confrontation of TJ and George Hammond, British minister.

Reference: 804
Author: Ritz, Wilfred J.
Title: "From the Here of Jefferson's Handwritten Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence to the There of the Printed Dunlap Broadside."
Publication: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Volume: 116
Date: (1992)
Extent: 499-512.

Notes: Argues that the Declaration was first printed in a small quantity, following the text as first submitted by TJ's committee, by John Dunlap so that each member of Congress could have the full text before him. These copies were later apparently collected and destroyed, but were used for the debate on July 3rd over the revisions to the committee report (also known as TJ's “Rough Draft” version). The clear, corrected copy sent to Dunlap after this stage is represented by the so-called “uncorrected printer's proof” now held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. This was not a proof copy, strictly speaking, but a distinct printing between the now lost first printing and the final printing known as the Dunlap broadside. The author contends that Dunlap would have set up type for the now lost first printing, would not have distributed the type, and would have done all subsequent revisions in the form.

Reference: 1029
Author: Robbins, Roland Wells.
Title: "Report on 1955 Archaeological Exploration at Shadwell, Birthplace of Thomas Jefferson ... April 5-May 27 ... June 15-July 1, 1955."
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1955)
Extent: pp. 35, 6

Notes: Mimeographed report on excavations which located the probable site of TJ's birthplace.

Reference: 2429
Author: Robbins, Caroline
Title: "The Pursuit of Happiness"
Publication: America's Continuing Revolution: An Act of Conservation, ed. Irving Kristol
Publisher: Washington American Enterprise Institute
Date: (1975)
Extent: 119-39

Notes: On the 18th-century background of the phrase and what TJ meant by it, arguing that he intended public happiness, not individual, a "satisfaction of the aspirations of the majority."

Reference: 2430
Author: Robbins, Jan C.
Title: "Jefferson and the Press: The Resolution of an Antinomy."
Publication: Journalism Quarterly
Volume: 48
Date: (1971)
Extent: 421-30, 465

Notes: Contends that TJ the libertarian defender of free speech and TJ the defender of prosecution of the press are profiles of the same man; both suppression and freedom arise from his belief that the ultimate law of men and nations is self-preservation.

Reference: 3229
Author: Roberson, Samuel Arndt
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Eighteenth Century Landscape Garden Movement in England"
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Yale Univ
Date: (1974)
Extent: pp. 163

Notes: Discusses the influence of Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770), and TJ's visits to many of the English gardens described there. His work at Monticello is an important forerunner of the American landscape movement of the nineteenth century. DAI 35/05A, p. 2684.

Reference: 1199
Author: Roberts, Michael Steven
Title: “Jefferson's Quest for a Virtuous Republic: The Political Economics of Indian Removal.” M. A. thesis, San Jose State University,
Publication: MAI 34/06, 1024
Date: (1995)
Extent: Pp. 196.

Notes: Contends that TJ's policy of Indian removal was linked to his commitment to republicanism, understood as a desire to create a virtuous republic of independent white farmers. Points out political pressure from his supporters to make available land for white farmers, and sees his Indian policy as the antecedent to Andrew Jackson's more flagrant efforts at Indian removal.

Reference: 3230
Author: Roberts, John G.
Title: "An Exchange of Letters Between Jefferson and Quesnay de Beaurepaire."
Publication: VMHB
Volume: 50
Date: (1942)
Extent: 134-42

Notes: TJ doubts the possibilities of success for Quesnay's French academy at Richmond.

Reference: 3231
Author: Roberts, Mary Fanton
Title: "Brandon, With Its Memories of Perukes and Farthingales."
Publication: Arts and Decoration
Volume: 43
Date: (1936)
Extent: 6-9+

Notes: no note

Reference: 1927
Author: Robertson, Walter S.
Title: "Report to the Founder on Foreign Affairs."
Publication: U.S. Department of State Bulletin
Volume: 36
Date: (1957)
Extent: 682-87

Notes: Compares TJ's foreign policy with that of today.

Reference: 1030
Author: Robins, Edward
Title: "A Disappointment in Love: Legends from Virginia"
Publication: Romances of Early America
Publisher: George W. Jacobs
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1902)
Extent: 101-18

Notes: Sentimentalized account of TJ's flirtation with Rebecca Burwell.

Reference: 1031
Author: Robins, Elizabeth
Title: "The Old Jefferson House, Philadelphia."
Publication: Harper's Weekly
Volume: 27
Date: (1883)
Extent: 228

Notes: House at S. W. corner of Seventh and Market about to be razed; picture.

Reference: 1032
Author: Robins, Sally Nelson
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Love Stories of Famous Virginians
Publisher: Dietz Printing
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1923)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 1200
Author: Robinson, Joyce Henri
Title: “An American Cabinet of Curiosities: Thomas Jefferson's Indian Hall at Monticello,”
Publication: Winterthur Portfolio
Volume: 30
Date: (1995)
Extent: 41-58.

Notes: Thoughtful, informed discussion of TJ's collection of paintings, natural history specimens, and Indian artifacts displayed in the entrance hall at Monticello. Uses descriptions of early visitors to reconstruct the hall's appearance and contents in TJ's time, and places his collection in the tradition of the European Kunst-und Wunderkammer as well as more contemporary displays like the collection of the American Philosophical Society and Charles Willson Peale's museum. TJ was particularly interested in creating an American museum, “a display celebrating the indigenous puissance and incipient potential of the New World. ” His placement of a painted Mandan buffalo robe next to a copy of Carlo Lotti's St. Peter points to his belief that Amerindians were capable of creating original, albeit barbaric, art and would eventually progress to “civilized” forms and incorporation into American society of the future.

Reference: 1033
Author: Robinson, William A.
Title: "A Misused Quotation."
Publication: AHR
Volume: 33
Date: (1927)
Extent: 81-83

Notes: A description by Theodore Dwight of "The great object of Jacobinism" was cited by several historians, including Henry Adams, as illustrative of Federalist views of TJ's administration; actually, Dwight was talking about the imaginary state projected in William Godwin's Political Justice.

Reference: 1034
Author: Robinson, William E.
Title: Speech of Hon. William E. Robinson of New York, in the House of Representatives, Friday, March 14, 1884
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1884?)
Extent: pp. 16

Notes: Points out that extremely generous pensions have been awarded to the widows of Tyler, Polk, Lincoln, and Garfield in the same year one was refused to TJ's last living grandchild.

Reference: 1928
Author: Robinson, Donald L.
Title: Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1971)
Extent: 81-97

Notes: Characterizes TJ as the "only political leader of consequence in Revolutionary America who moved openly against Negro slavery," mostly on the basis of his rejected passage in the Declaration.

Reference: 3232
Author: Robinson, Geroid T.
Title: "Small Farms and Big Machines."
Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 27
Date: (1953)
Extent: 69-71

Notes: Compares TJ's agrarian ideas to those of the Russian Populists (Narodniks) and surmises that TJ would not have been hostile to cooperation among farmers, although he would certainly have opposed Soviet-style collectivization.

Reference: 3233
Author: Robsjohn-Gibbings, T. H.
Title: "If Thomas Jefferson Visited Your Home."
Publication: American Home
Volume: 32
Date: (1944)
Extent: 26

Notes: He would judge your furniture for its utility not for its antique charm.

Reference: 1035
Author: Roby, Norman S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, A Bicentennial Celebration of America's First Wine Expert."
Publication: Vintage Magazine
Volume: 6
Date: (1976)
Extent: 23-28

Notes: TJ's interest in wine.

Reference: 3234
Author: Rocca, J. C.
Title: "Jefferson's Notes on Virginia and the Census of 1940."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 23
Date: (1943)
Extent: 153-59

Notes: Compares TJ's comments on population and economic situation of Virginia to data revealed in 1940 census. Not clear why.

Reference: 1929
Author: Roche, George Charles, III.
Title: "The Real American Revolution."
Publisher: Freeman
Volume: 23
Date: (1973)
Extent: 395-98

Notes: The founders had two ideas: "the Tom Jefferson-limited government idea and the Adam Smith-free enterprise idea."

Reference: 2431
Author: Rocker, Rudolf
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Pioneers of American Freedom: Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America.... Translated from the German by Arthur E. Briggs
Publisher: Rocker Publications Committee
Place of Publication: Los Angeles
Date: (1949)
Extent: 12-19

Notes: Slight sketch of TJ as liberal thinker.

Reference: 1036
Author: Rodgers, William
Title: "Autographs: The Man of Monticello."
Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 85
Date: (1980)
Extent: 100-01

Notes: TJ's was a "poor man's autograph" for years, now one of the most valuable of the founding fathers.

Reference: 49
Author: Rodrigues, Leda Boechat
Title: "Jose Joaquim da Maia e Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Revista do Instituto Historico e Geographico Brasiliero
Volume: 333
Date: (1981)
Extent: 53-70.

Notes: Describes interaction between TJ and da Maia, a Brazilian medical student at the University of Montpellier and would-be revolutionary who used the pseudonym "Vendek." TJ was particularly interested in da Maia's information about Brazilian social and natural history, and he expressed polite moral support for a Brazilian revolution even as he pointed out that the U. S. wished to have friendly relations with Portugal.

Reference: A68
Author: Roeber, Anthony Gregg
Title: "Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: The Transformation of Virginia's Justices of the Peace, 1705-1805." Ph. D. dissertation. Brown University
Publication: DAI; 253-A.
Volume: 44
Date: (1977)
Date: (1983)
Extent: pp. 379.

Notes: Challenges the notion that Virginia almost uniformly endorsed the Revolution and saw little social upheaval and claims that fundamental changes were effected by the reforms instituted by TJ and the Committee for the Revisal of the Laws in 1776-79. Misleading impressions that little political or social change accompanied the revolution in legal thinking were fostered by those Virginians who by 1805 saw the assault on the county magistracy as a threat to the Commonwealth's cultural life. Lawyers like TJ who had grown to maturity in the 1750's and 1760's led the attack on the local courts but their reform efforts were only partly successful. Only peripherally on TJ but useful background.

Reference: 1037
Author: Rogers, Fred B.
Title: "A Guide to Health: 'An Epistle to a Friend' (Thomas Jefferson) by Charles Willson Peale."
Publication: Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Volume: 4th ser. 28
Date: (1960)
Extent: 94-99

Notes: Focus on Peale and his pamphlet on preserving health; asserts TJ was "ailing" in 1802, mostly because he seems to misread Peale's preface.

Reference: 1038
Author: Rogers, James Frederick
Title: "The Athletic Author of the 'Declaration."'
Publisher: Saint Nicholas
Volume: 42
Date: (1915)
Extent: 791-93

Notes: TJ as a clean living man.

Reference: 1930
Author: Rogers, Robert, Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Leadership of the Republican Party, January, 1797 to June, 1798."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of California
Place of Publication: Berkeley
Date: (1953)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 441
Author: Roland, Daniel Dean
Title: "The Influence of Francis Fauquier, William Small, and George Wythe on Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Southern Historian
Volume: 8
Date: (Spring 1987)
Extent: 5-13.

Notes: Claims Fauquier gave TJ "a sense of gentility," Small introduced him to "nature's order and Enlightenment thinking," and Wythe, whose influence was most important of the three, both instructed him in the law and "helped him gain a sense of character." Possibly so, but doesn't add anything to what is already known about the relationships between TJ and his professed mentors in Williamsburg.

Reference: 1270
Author: Rombes, Nicholas
Title: “Speculative Discourse: Use of the Future in the Declaration, The Federalist Papers, Jefferson and Paine”
Publication: in Making America/Making American Literature , eds. A. Robert Lee, Will M. Verhoeven.
Publication: Rodopi
Place of Publication: Amsterdam
Date: (1996)
Extent: 77-92.

Notes: Suggests that much of the early republic's public discourse imagined “future space” that would legitimate the republic's ideology. Cites TJ's description of “looming” in the Notes as a trope for this. Suggests that the Declaration's most radical implications lurk in its recognition of possible future revolutions, and reads TJ's first inaugural address as a vision of a harmonious civic future.

Reference: 752
Author: Ronda, James P.
Title: "`A Knowledge of Distant Parts': The Shaping of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,"
Publication: Montana
Volume: 41 (no. 4)
Date: (1991)
Extent: 4-19.

Notes: Discusses the Lewis and Clark expedition in the context of a great age of scientific explorations and discoveries. TJ sent out Lewis and Clark not as a result of long years of planning but as a relatively immediate response after reading Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages. TJ planned an American response to a British strategy for economic and political dominion over the West. Puts the Lewis and Clark expedition in the context of other scientific explorations of which TJ was aware, including those of Cook, Laperouse, and Humboldt. Informative, with suggestions for further reading.

Reference: 805
Author: Ronda, James P.
Title: "Jefferson and the Imperial West."
Publication: Journal of the West
Volume: 31
Date: (July, 1992)
Extent: 13-19.

Notes: Despite TJ's partly self-created myth of himself as “born and bred among the mountains,” he was basically attracted to Atlantic civilization, not the “savage” West. His interest in the West was not continuous but expressed in fits and starts. But his Western vision was not merely circumstantial or opportunistic but based on “a clear, often elegantly reasoned theory linking western exploration and imperial expansion,” his idea of “an expanding republic. ” Notes the price paid for Western expansion by Native Americans and others and the failure of it to live up to TJ's fantasies about it. An excellent concise overview of TJ's interest in the West.

Reference: 1078
Author: Ronda, James P.
Title: “A Moment in Time: The West--September 1806,”
Publication: Montana
Volume: 44
Date: (no. 4, 1994)
Extent: 2-15.

Notes: Looks at exploring and colonizing activity by the U. S. the British, Spain, and Russia in the West in the summer of 1806. Portrays the Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Freeman expeditions, all in the field, as an enterprise directed from Monticello.

Reference: 1271
Author: Ronda, James P.
Title: “West Words,”
Publication: Gilcrease Journal
Volume: 4
Date: (#1, 1996)
Extent: 6-19.

Notes: On the verbalized and visualized representations of the West in American culture, initiated in important ways by TJ and his projects for exploration, particularly the Lewis and Clark expedition. TJ's instructions to Lewis and Clark show that he already was thinking of the West as a battlefield where European imperial powers would fight for control, and he himself saw it as the location for a commercial empire for liberty. He also expected the West to be place of natural diversity, a land of marvels. If his expectations were to some degree borne out by what Lewis and Clark found, they were in other ways a dangerous fantasy, unaware of violence and dust bowls to come.

Reference: 1304
Author: Ronda, James P., ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West: From Conquest to Conservation.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Place of Publication: Albuquerque
Date: (1997)
Extent: pp. xx, 204.

Notes: Papers on TJ and/or the West originally presented at a 1994 conference sponsored by the Missouri Historical Society, with a thoughtful introduction by the editor. Papers with a specifically Jeffersonian content cited here individually by author.

Reference: 1201
Author: Ronnick, Michele Valerie
Title: “The Sources of Seven Latin Phrases in the Adams-Jefferson Correspondence,”
Publication: American Notes and Queries
Volume: 8
Date: (Fall, 1995)
Extent: 14-18.

Notes: Locates sources for quotations previously unidentified in Cappon's edition of the Adams-Jefferson Letters . Notes changes Adams and TJ made to make the original Latin grammatically correct in the context of their English sentence that includes it.

Reference: 1931
Author: Rooney, William E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the New Orleans Marine Hospital."
Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 22
Date: (1956)
Extent: 167-82

Notes: Describes first years of Marine Hospital Service in New Orleans; TJ's "efforts to provide medical care for seamen in an unhealthy port ... were typical of his humanitarianism."

Reference: 1039
Author: Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Title: "Address at the Dedication of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. April 13, 1943."
Publication: The Public Papers of and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, ed. Samuel I. Rosenman.
Volume: 1943 volume.
Publication: Harper's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1950)
Extent: 162-64

Notes: TJ as the "Apostle of Freedom."

Reference: 1040
Author: Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Title: "Is There a Jefferson on the Horizon?"
Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 61
Date: (1945)
Extent: 277-81

Notes: A review of Bowers' Jefferson and Hamilton originally appearing in the New York Evenin~ World, December 3, 1925. "...for some years I have been, frankly, fed up with the romantic cult which has since the publication of an historical novel, surrounded the name of Alexander Hamilton."

Reference: 1932
Author: Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Title: "We Seek Peace: Enduring Peace."
Publication: Vital Speeches
Volume: 9
Date: (1945)
Extent: 423-24

Notes: Speech FDR wrote the night before he died, to be delivered over radio on TJ's birthday.

Reference: 359
Author: Rorty, Richard
Title: "Demokrati star over filosofi."
Publication: Philosophia: Tidsskrift for Filosofi
Place of Publication: (Arhus, Denmark).
Volume: 15
Date: (nos. 3-4, 1986)
Extent: 328-56.

Notes: See the author's "Priority of Democracy over Philosophy," published in 1988 and listed below. This version translated into Danish by Erik Ostenfeld.

Reference: 515
Author: Rorty, Richard
Title: "The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy"
Publication: The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, ed. Peterson and Vaughan (see above)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1988)
Extent: 257-82.

Notes: Describes TJ's assumption that a moral faculty common to theists and atheists sufficed for civic virtue as setting the tone for American liberal politics. Two sides of this position appear, an absolutist claim that every human has the beliefs necessary for civic virtue and a pragmatic claim that when a person's conscience entertains beliefs indefensible in the face of beliefs common to fellow citizens, that person's beliefs must be sacrificed "on the altar of public expediency." The discrediting of the rationalist justification of this Enlightenment compromise has polarized liberal social theory, but a third position has also emerged under the label of "communitarianism," presented by Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor, and others. Argues against the communitarians that liberal democracy can get along without philosophical presuppositions, but admits that communitarians like Taylor have a point in conceiving of the self as constituted by the community. This view comports well with liberal democracy, even if it is not as important as the communitarians think to have such a view. Looks at the philosophy of John Rawls in some detail, linking it to Jeffersonian antecedents but distinguishing it from TJ's assumption that the moral law needed a "foundation." TJ, John Dewey, and Rawls become successive voices for an American experiment whose end is "the disenchantment of the world." Focused on contemporary philosophical arguments, but indirectly enlightening about TJ, who is discussed only peripherally. Also appears in German as "Der Vorrang der Demokratie vor der Philosophie." Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Forschung 42 (January-March, 1988), 3-17.

Reference: 753
Author: Rose, Frank.
Title: "Beyond Monticello."
Publication: House and Garden
Volume: 163
Date: (November 1991)
Extent: 122-26.

Notes: On Poplar Forest and its preservation now underway. Discusses the findings of landscape architect and historian C. Allan Brown, who among other points has suggested that TJ's landscape design resembles a mandala.

Reference: 1933
Author: Rose, U. M.
Title: "The Case Between Jefferson and Marshall."
Publication: Colorado Bar Association Reports
Volume: 4
Date: (1902)
Extent: 123-56

Notes: Surveys the whole TJ-Marshall relationship, sympathetically to each; claims TJ was in the wrong with Marshall, but a great man for all that.

Reference: 953
Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
Title: "Ornamental Farm"
Publication: New Republic
Volume: 209
Date: (December 13, 1993)
Extent: 50.

Notes: Reply to Garry Wills's New York Review of Books essay of this year, rejecting his thesis that TJ's aesthetic principles were divorced from and compromised his stated political principles. TJ's ferme ornée is “no Proustian grove, aspiring to useless elegance or purposeless beauty. It is a microcosm of Jefferson's continental ambitions, a declaration of economic independence from the Old World .. ”

Reference: 3235
Author: Rosen, George
Title: "Political Order and Human Health in Jeffersonian Thought."
Publication: Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 26
Date: (1952)
Extent: 32-44

Notes: Argues that TJ and Benjamin Rush saw an analogy between the health of the individual and the health of his society, and they viewed (optimistically) the natural world in which man saw himself contained.

Reference: 3236
Author: Rosenbach, A. S. W.
Title: "The Libraries of the Presidents of the United States."
Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Volume: 44
Date: (1934)
Extent: 337-64

Notes: TJ's library described, 346-51.

Reference: 1934
Author: Rosenberg, Arthur
Title: "Robespierre and Jefferson"
Publication: Democracy and Socialism, A Contribution to the Political History of the Past 150 Years
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1939)
Extent: 10-21

Notes: Both Robespierre's and TJ's revolutions failed because of the "bourgeois-capitalistic spirit of the age" and because of the leaders' failure to understand "the actual social processes of their time."

Reference: 3237
Author: Rosenberg, Pierre
Title: "Salons: 1785, 1787, 1789"
Publication: The Eye of Thomas Jefferson, ed. William Howard Adams
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1976)
Extent: 152-66

Notes: Account of the three salons TJ could have seen in Paris and some of the paintings exhibited in them.

Reference: 1041
Author: Rosenberger, Francis Coleman, ed.
Title: Jefferson Reader: A Treasury of Writings about Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Dutton
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1953)
Extent: pp. 349

Notes: Interesting collection of pieces from various points of view and dealing with the many sides of TJ.

Reference: 3238
Author: Rosenberger, Francis Coleman
Title: XII Poems
Publisher: Gotham Book Mart
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1946)
Extent: unpag.

Notes: Has four poems on TJ.

Reference: 2432
Author: Ross, Michael
Title: "Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Jefferson and Madison."
Publication: International Review of History and Political Science
Volume: 13
Date: (1976)
Extent: 47-50

Notes: Note contrasting TJ's desire for a population uniform in occupation and political belief with Madison's belief that a great variety of interests will protect individuals from a tyrannical majority

Reference: 754
Author: Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne.
Title: "La Louisiane en 1803: Terre d'Expansion, Terre d'Exploration, ou Comment les Sciences Naturelles et la Diplomatie se Melent."
Publication: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines
Volume: 16 (nos. 48-49)
Date: (1991)
Extent: 125-35.

Notes: On the Louisiana Purchase and TJ's sending out of exploring expeditions. From being originally a state secret, Lewis and Clark's expedition was transformed into a national epic by the press, by the scientific community, and by TJ himself in his 1806 Message. There was an "appropriation sentimentale" to accompany the "appropriation de fait."

Reference: 1042
Author: Rossiter, Clinton
Title: "Which Jefferson Do You Quote?"
Publication: Reporter
Volume: 13
Date: (1955)
Extent: 33-36

Notes: Describes "seven Jeffersons," anti-statist, civil libertarian, etc. The real TJ, he claims, was a progressive, not a limitationist.

Reference: 3239
Author: Rossman, Wendell E.
Title: "Die Hoelzerne Saeulenarchitektur am Campus von Jeffersons Universitaet von Virginia, Charlottesville, Va."
Place of Publication: Phoenix, Ariz.
Date: (1965)
Extent: pp. 164

Notes: Detailed, illustrated study of the architectural facades of the pavilions on the lawn at the University.

Reference: 1043
Author: Rosten, Leo
Title: "They Made Our World ... 2 ... Jefferson."
Publication: Look
Volume: 27
Date: (1963)
Extent: 52-53

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 1935
Author: Rostow, Eugene Victor
Title: The Consent of the Governed
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1968)
Extent: pp. 27

Notes: TJ's case for revolution does not depend on his 18th-century natural law doctrine but on a more general theory about the nature of a free political community. Laws are tested by individuals, e.g. Thoreau, but when unable to persuade his fellow citizens of his rightness, a dissenter must follow the will of society. Vietnam War-era statement.

Reference: 1936
Author: Roth, George L.
Title: "Verse Satire on 'Faction,' 1790-1815."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 17
Date: (1960)
Extent: 473-85

Notes: Includes account of Federalist satire aimed at TJ by Thomas Fessenden and others.

Reference: 1044
Author: Rothert, Otto A., ed.
Title: "A Report of the Dedication of the Inscriptions on the Thomas Jefferson Statue, Louisville, July 4, 1943; Included are: A News Story by Miss Marion Porter, A Letter by Mr. Isaac W. Bernheim, An Address by Mr. Hambleton Tapp."
Publication: Filson Club History Quarterly
Volume: 17
Date: (1943)
Extent: 189-201

Notes: Dedication of Jeffersonian quotations on the base of the statue Bernheim had donated in 1901.

Reference: 3240
Author: Rothman, Irving N.
Title: "Structure and Theme in Samuel Ewing's Satire, The 'American Miracle."'
Publication: American Literature
Volume: 40
Date: (1968)
Extent: 294-308

Notes: Ewing's poem is a "Federalist attack upon the Republicans and, particularly, Jefferson." Deals with the mammoth cheese and mammoth bones.

Reference: 2433
Author: Rothschild, Richard
Title: Three Gods Give an Evening to Politics
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1936)
Extent: pp. viii, 216

Notes: Jefferson, Lenin and Socrates in after dinner conversation.

Reference: 1045
Author: Rowan, Stephen N.
Title: An Address, Delivered July 12, 1826, in the Middle Dutch Church, at the Request of the Common Council, on Occasion of the Funeral Obsequies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: William Davis, Jr
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 36

Notes: General praise without considering TJ and Adams in any detail.

Reference: 1937
Author: Rowland, Kate Mason
Title: "A Lost Paper of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 1
Date: (1892)
Extent: 34-45

Notes: Prints a draft of TJ's proposed constitution of 1776 for Virginia; this document does not, however, invalidate the role of George Mason.

Reference: 50
Author: Royster, Charles
Title: "A Battle of Memoirs: Light-Horse Harry Lee and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Virginia Cavalcade.
Volume: 31
Date: (1981)
Extent: 112-27.

Notes: Motivated partly by injured self-esteem, partly by Federalist political principles, Lee's Memoirs of the War (1812) attacked TJ's government of Virginia. This memoir, as well as Marshall's Life of Washington , prompted his concern over the possibilities of a dominant "tory" history of the revolution. To answer Lee, TJ encouraged William Johnson, biographer of Nathanael Greene, and Louis Girardin, completer of John Daly Burk's History of Virginia ; he complimented Johnson for refuting "Lee's military fable." Claims that TJ upheld his reputation as governor in part to safeguard the republicanism of the Revolution against the demands of Federalists such as Lee and Marshall for strong government and leaders with coercive authority. While modern scholars have vindicated TJ as a diligent governor and administrator, TJ and his contemporaries focused on the institution of the governorship but on questions of personal conduct and moral character. Thus, above all he had to face the questions raised by his flight from Tarleton`s raiding party and had to clarify the difference between personal courage and military competence.

Reference: 690
Author: Royster, Charles
Title: "Mr. Jefferson" in
Publication: Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1981)
Extent: 187-228??.

Notes: Fuller version of material in essay cited as #50 in TJ 1981-1990 . [Comment further]

Reference: 1938
Author: Royster, Charles
Title: "A Battle of Memoirs; Light-Horse Harry Lee and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 31
Date: (1981)
Extent: 112-27

Notes: Excerpted from the authors's Light-Horse Harry Lee, New York: Knopf, 1981. Covers conflicting memories of the British invasion of Virginia.

Reference: 1046
Author: Rozwenc, Edwin Charles
Title: "Henry Adams and the Federalists"
Publication: Teachers of History: Essays in Honor of Laurence Bradford Packard, ed. H. Stuart Hughes
Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Ithaca
Date: (1954)
Extent: 123-45

Notes: Examines Adams' History and rejects the view that he was a crypto-Jeffersonian.

Reference: 516
Author: Rubenstein, Stan
Title: "Jefferson and Liberty"
Publication: Land and Freedom: Twenty Lessons for High School American Studies Classroom Instruction
Publisher: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation/Henry George School,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1988)

Notes: Not seen. A self-contained lesson, suggesting "a theme, a sub-theme, background, concepts, performance objectives, and related texts." Also has a lesson on the Louisiana Purchase.

Reference: 3241
Author: Ruck, William Sener
Title: "Jefferson the Architect."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 8
Date: (1932)
Extent: 139-43

Notes: Review essay of book by I. T. Frary criticizes the underemphasis on TJ's European models.

Reference: 1375
Author: Rudolph, Eric
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Evokes Era of Enlightenment"
Publication: American Cinematographer
Volume: 78
Date: (January, 1997)
Extent: 81-82.

Notes: On Ken Burns's documentary, which compensates for lack of existing photographic material by focusing on Monticello as an index of his mind and character and by spending a great deal of time panning across paintings, maps, etchings, and old still photographs.

Reference: 628
Author: Rugina, Anghel N.
Title: "The Prelude: A Glossary of Political Thought -- The Voice of the Past as a Reminder Never to Stop Searching for a Better Form of Government in the Future."
Publication: International Journal of Social Economics
Volume: 17
Date: (February, 1990)
Extent: 3-9.

Notes: A "monograph" crafted out of selected quotations from political thinkers beginning with Plato and Aristotle and extending to Lenin and Maritain. Concludes, however, with two pages of comments by TJ, generally of a somewhat libertarian complexion, but also one or two on the need for respecting the "will of the majority" and the "will of the people."

Reference: 1047
Author: Rulliere, H.
Title: "Le Jeffersonisme and les Jeffersoniens."
Publication: La Revue
Volume: 129
Date: (1918)
Extent: 213-24, 478-90

Notes: Biographical sketch. "Je suis convaincu que ce sera surtout apras cette guerre: 'La guerre des guerres': que les idees pre'conisees par le grand revolutionnaire et homme d'Etat americaine, seront re'ellement comprises."

Reference: 1048
Author: Rulliere, H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Wetenschappelijke Bladen
Volume: 1
Date: (1919)
Extent: 129-58

Notes: no note

Reference: 15
Author: Rushing, Dorothy Marie
Title: "Attitudes and Actions of the First Six Presidents of the United States Concerning Higher Education." Ph.D. dissertation. University of North Texas,
Publication: DAI ; 4740-A.
Volume: 42
Date: (1981)
Extent: pp. 337.

Notes: Finds TJ and the other presidents shared many beliefs while disagreeing on some aspects of higher education. Concludes that higher education today serves the purpose of educating a democratic citizenry which these men envisioned, although the educational problems they faced still persist to some extent. Standard facts and no ground-breaking opinions.

Reference: 178
Author: Rusinowa, Izabella
Title: Jefferson a Poczatki Amerykanskiego Systemu Partyjnego (Lata 1790-1800).
Publisher: Wydawnictwa Universytetu Warszawskiego,
Place of Publication: Warszawa:
Date: (1984)
Extent: 271.

Notes: In Polish; summary in English. Argues for party formation out of the rivalry between provincial elites oriented toward trade and industry on the one hand and agricultural (particularly Southern) interests on the other. Categorizes TJ rather too easily as an agrarian republican and contends in too simplistic and presentistic a manner that the party system and party mechanisms of today have essentially been in place since the end of the eighteenth century. Sees TJ as an ideological and party leader, perhaps more than he actually was. Argues that his goal in the 1790's was to create a strong, well-organized permanent opposition; this work may have more relevance to the Poland of the 1980's than to the United States of the 1790's. The comparison, although allowed to remain merely implicit, is interesting.

Reference: 1049
Author: Rusinowa, Izabella
Title: "Wstep"
Publication: Tadeusz Kosciuszko Thomas Jefferson Korespondencia (1798-1817), prz. Agnieszka Glinczanka, Jozef Paszkowski
Publisher: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy
Place of Publication: Warsaw
Date: (1976)
Extent: 5-19

Notes: no note

Reference: 1050
Author: Rusk, Dean
Title: Mason and Jefferson Revisited. An Address by the Honorable Dean Rusk ... On the Occasion of the Prelude to Independence at the Eighteenth-Century Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Place of Publication: Williamsburg
Date: (1966)
Extent: pp.23

Notes: The ideas of TJ and George Mason are still powerful.

Reference: 3242
Author: Ruskin, Mary
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Education."
Publication: Social Studies
Volume: 41
Date: (1950)
Extent: 349-50

Notes: Conventional sketch.

Reference: 1051
Author: Rusling, James P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Methodist Quarterly
Volume: 41
Date: (1859)
Extent: 59-73

Notes: Praises TJ for everything except his religious views.

Reference: 755
Author: Russell, Greg.
Title: "Jeffersonian Ethics in Foreign Affairs: John Quincy Adams and the Moral Sentiments of a Realist."
Publication: Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy
Volume: 18
Date: (1991)
Extent: 273-91

Notes: Discusses TJ's worldview as based on a "Christianity which had passed through the rationalism of the French Enlightenment." This view of the world assumes that America's dual importance as a native achievement and as a universal example requires an "element of restraint" and must respect the varieties of possible political experience elsewhere." J. Q. Adams, then, is the epitome of such Jeffersonian ethics.

Reference: 1052
Author: Russell, Phillips
Title: Jefferson, Champion of the Free Mind
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1956)
Extent: pp. viii, 374

Notes: Well-written, popular biography, but derivative.

Reference: 1053
Author: Russell, Phillips
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Social Architect"
Publication: Harvesters
Publisher: Brentano's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1932)
Extent: 215-58

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 1054
Author: Russell, William E.
Title: "Jefferson and His Party Today."
Publication: The Forum
Volume: 21
Date: (1896)
Extent: 513-24

Notes: The Democratic Party needs to reassert TJ's principles, especially when it opposes as now a party of class, sectional and private interests.

Reference: 1055
Author: Rutherfoord, John Coles
Title: An Oration Delivered Before the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia, on the 13th of April, 1843
Publisher: James Alexander
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1843)
Extent: pp.13

Notes: 100th anniversary of TJ's birth; his principles fostered progress and the advance of freedom.

Reference: 1376
Author: Rutland, Robert A.
Title: "Jefferson's Greatest Vision: The Promise of the Bill of Rights"
Publication: Reason and Republicanism , ed. McDowell and Noble
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication: Lanham MD.
Date: (1997)
Extent: 119-132.

Notes: TJ less consistent in his public life than Lincoln or Washington, but he was the greatest visionary of liberty, particularly in his taking up the need for a Bill of Rights. Nothing particularly new.

Reference: A69
Author: Rutland, Robert A.
Title: "Madison's Bookish Habits."
Publication: Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
Volume: 37
Date: (1980)
Extent: 176-91.

Notes: Discusses TJ's influence on Madison's reading interests and compares their bookbuying practices. TJ encouraged Madison's acquisition of books and shared an interest in many of the same topics. Madison was more constrained by his pocketbook than was TJ, but a full description of his library has not survived.

Reference: 1939
Author: Rutland, Robert A.
Title: "The Jeffersonian Genesis"
Publication: The Democrats from Jefferson to Carter
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Baton Rouge
Date: (1979)
Extent: 1-28

Notes: Brief account of the building of the Democratic party during TJ's presidency.

Reference: 3243
Author: Rutledge, Anna Wells
Title: "William John Coffee as a Portrait Sculptor."
Publication: Gazette des Beaux Arts
Volume: ser. 6 28
Date: (1945)
Extent: 297-312

Notes: Coffee did terra cotta busts of TJ, Martha Jefferson Randolph, and four of her children. Account of his career with extensive quotations from correspondence with TJ.

Reference: 1056
Author: Ryan, G. J.
Title: "Monticello, A Patriotic Shrine Preserved for the Children of America."
Publication: Journal of American History
Volume: 26
Date: (1932)
Extent: 65-66

Notes: no note

Reference: 2434
Author: Ryavec, Ernest A.
Title: "Slovenians, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Officer Review
Volume: 16
Date: (1978)
Extent: 12-14

Notes: TJ could have learned of the Slovenian ritual for installing Dukes of Carinthia in Bodin's Republic.