Thomas Jefferson : a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writings about him (1826-1980)

© 1983, Frank Shuffelton, editor
Print version published by Garland Publishing (New York, 1983).

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Name: H. B. D. , ?
Title: "The Citizen Genet."

Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 10
Date: (1866)
Pages: 329-44
Notes: Prints correspondence of TJ and Genet with extracts from newspapers of the period.
Reference: 1650


Name: H. W. , ?
Title: "Great Americans and Why (Thomas Jefferson)."

Publication: American Catholic Quarterly Review
Volume: 49
Date: (1924)
Pages: 16-22.
Notes: Sketch of TJ as author of the Declaration.
Reference: 509


Name: Haber , Francis
Title: David Baillie Warden. A Bibliographical Sketch of America's Cultural Ambassador in France

Publisher: Institute Francaise de Washington
City: Washington
Date: 1954
Pages: pp.44
Notes: Warden, on diplomatic service in France from 1804 on, corresponded with TJ on scientific matters and sent news on the savants of Paris. Only a little on this, however.
Reference: 510


Name: Hadley , Arthur T.
Title: "The 'Pol' and the Philosopher Thomas Jefferson

Publication: Power's Human Face; A Unique American History.
Publisher: Morrow
City: New York
Date: 1965
Pages: 17-35
Notes: TJ caught "in the act of power" by authorial commentary on snippets of correspondence
Reference: 511


Name: Haiman , Miecislaus
Title: Kosciuszko, Leader and Exile

Publisher: Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America
City: New York
Date: 1946
Pages: pp. vii,-183
Notes: Focus on Kosciuszko; uses correspondence of TJ with him and discusses their relationship.
Reference: 512


Name: Haines , Charles Grove
Title: "The Views of Thomas Jefferson and of Leading Democrat-Republicans"

Publication: The American Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged
Publisher: Univ. of California Press
City: Berkeley
Date: 1932
Pages: 241-53
Notes: Discusses the antagonism of TJ and Marshall.
Reference: 1651


Name: Hale , Edward Everett
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, The Pioneer of Democracy in America"

Publication: Noble Living and Grand Achievement: Giants of the Republic
Publisher: J. C. Winston and Co.
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1895
Pages: 115-28
Notes: Similar material in Illustrious Americans, ed. Hale. Philadelphia: International Publishing, 1896. 115-30.
Reference: 514


Name: Hale , Edward Everett
Title: "With Jefferson's Manuscripts."

Publication: Book News
Volume: 14
Date: (1895)
Pages: 65-67
Notes: Commentary on TJ's correspondence.
Reference: 515


Name: Hale , Edward Everett
Title: "Memories of a Hundred Years."

Publication: The Outlook
Volume: 70
Date: (1902)
Pages: 320-32
Notes: Federalist memories of TJ recounted, among others.
Reference: 513


Name: Hale , Harrison
Title: "The United Front."

Publication: Scientific Monthly
Volume: 58
Date: (1944)
Pages: 233-34
Notes: Lavoisier, Jefferson and DuPont considered as symbols of our science, government, and industry.
Reference: 516


Name: Hale , Salma
Title: "Salma Hale Papers."

Publication: Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings
Volume: 46
Date: (1913)
Pages: 402-09
Notes: Hale visited TJ at Monticello in May, 1818, and later sent him several pamphlets on the Unitarian-orthodox debate, for which TJ thanked him and gave his own opinion about Christ.
Reference: 517


Name: Hale , William Bayard
Title: "Presidential Inaugurations at Four Crises."

Publication: World's Work
Volume: 25
Date: (1913)
Pages: 508-14
Notes: pp. 509-12 recount events of TJ's first inauguration.
Reference: 518


Name: Hall , Courtney R.
Title: "Jefferson on the Medical Theory and Practice of His Day."

Publication: Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 31
Date: (1957)
Pages: 235-47
Notes: Good account of Cabanis's influence on TJ, arguing that it was basic for his views of medicine.
Reference: 2850


Name: Hall , Edward Hagaman
Title: "Notes Concerning the Declaration of Independence, Including the Correction of Some Popular Errors."

Publication: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, Annual Report
Volume: 18
Date: (1913)
Pages: 467-83
Notes: Distinguishes between the adoption on July 2 of Richard Henry Lee's resolution concerning independence and the later approval of TJ's Declaration.
Reference: 1652


Name: Hall , Gordon Langley
Title: Mr. Jefferson's Ladies

Publisher: Beacon Press
City: Boston
Date: 1966
Pages: pp. xvi, 239
Notes: Sentimental study of the women in TJ's life: his wife, daughters, Maria Cosway. Inaccurate in detail.
Reference: 519


Name: Hall , J. Lesslie
Title: "The Religious Opinions of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Sewanee Review
Volume: 21
Date: (1913)
Pages: 164-76
Notes: Argues that TJ was not an atheist nor, as claimed by some, an Episcopalian nor a Unitarian in the mold of W. E. Channing, although he was an anti-Trinitarian. "He was a mere amateur, a mere dabbler in religion.... why should young men be influenced by his crass views on religious subjects?"
Reference: 2263


Name: Hall , Richard
Title: "Jefferson and the Physiocrats."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1950
Pages: pp. vii, 131
Reference: 2264


Name: Halliday , E. M.
Title: "Nature's God and the Founding Fathers."

Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 14
Date: 1963
Pages: 4-7, 100-06
Notes: TJ and Madison on the principles of freedom of religion.
Reference: 2265


Name: Halsey , Ashley, Jr
Title: "How Thomas Jefferson's Pistols Were Restored."

Publication: The American Rifleman
Volume: 117
Date: 1969
Pages: 21-22
Reference: 520


Name: Halsey , Ashley, Jr. and John M. Snyder
Title: "Jefferson's Beloved Guns."

Publication: The American Rifleman
Volume: 117
Date: 1969
Pages: 17-20
Notes: TJ as hunter, shooter, and owner of firearms.
Reference: 521


Name: Halsey , J. J.
Title: "Nullification."

Publication: Dial
Volume: 8
Date: (1888)
Pages: 245-47
Notes: Review essay on Warfield's The Kentucky Resolution, taking issue with the contention that Breckinridge made radical changes to TJ's original proposal.
Reference: 1653


Name: Halsey , Robert A.
Title: How the President Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse Established Vaccination as a Public Health Procedure

Publisher: New York Academy of Medicine
City: New York
Date: 1936
Pages: pp. 58
Notes: Offers a nearly complete record of the correspondence on vaccination between TJ and Waterhouse, the first American physician to recognize the significance of Edward Jenner's discovery. In 1800 TJ successfully planted cowpox at Monticello and was distributing vaccination matter.
Reference: 2851


Name: Halstead , Murat
Title: "Jefferson's Journalism in His Letter-Writing Habit" and "Jefferson's Personal Part in Purchasing Louisiana"

Publication: Pictorial History of the Louisiana Purchase and the World's Pair at St. Louis
Publisher: National Publishing Co.
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1904
Pages: 43-56, 77-86
Reference: 522


Name: Hamilton , J. G. deRoulhac
Title: "Jefferson and Religion."

Publication: Reviewer
Volume: 5
Date: 1925
Pages: 5-15
Notes: Survey; argues attacks on TJ's religion were in fact attacks on his politics.
Reference: 2266


Name: Hamilton , J. G. deRoulhac
Title: "Jefferson and Adams at Ease."

Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 26
Date: (1927)
Pages: 359-72
Notes: Genial portrayal of TJ and Adams in retirement.
Reference: 523


Name: Hamilton , J. G. deRoulhac
Title: "Mr. Jefferson Visits the Sesquicentennial."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 3
Date: (1927)
Pages: 38-47
Notes: What would TJ have thought of the U.S. of 1926? He would have condemned the Volstead Act, the Watch and Ward Society, anti-evolutionists, and Andrew Mellon.
Reference: 524


Name: Hamilton , J. G. deRoulhac
Title: "Ripened Years: Thomas Jefferson—Time Treated Him Kindly."

Publication: Century Magazine
Volume: 114
Date: (1927)
Pages: 476-85.
Notes: TJ as contented senior citizen.
Reference: 525


Name: Hamilton , J. G. deRoulhac
Title: "The Pacifism of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 31
Date: (1955)
Pages: 607-20
Notes: Argues that TJ was no pacifist in a post-1914 meaning of the term; although he would have preferred to avoid war, he supported it when it was inevitable.
Reference: 1654


Name: Hamilton , John Church
Title: History of the Republic of the United States of America, as Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries

Publisher: D. Appleton
City: New York
Date: 1857-60
Pages: 7 vols
Notes: When reprinted in 1879, more properly titled A Life of Alexander Hamilton; important statement of the Hamiltonian view of TJ.
Reference: 1655


Name: Hamlin , Talbot F.
Title: "A Previously Unpublished Perspective of the United States Capitol by B. H. Latrobe."

Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 15
Date: 1956
Pages: 26-27
Notes: A drawing Latrobe sent to TJ after a dispute about the design.
Reference: 2852


Name: Hamlin , Talbot Faulkner
Title: "Roman Influences in the South"

Publication: The American Spirit in Architecture
Publisher: Yale Univ. Press
City: New Haven
Date: 1926
Pages: 108-23
Notes: TJ's enthusiasm for classic design deeply influenced the architecture of his region and that of the nation as a whole, particularly the official architecture.
Reference: 2853


Name: Hammond , Jabez D.
Title: Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn: With Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen. Edited by a Late Member of Congress

Publisher: Hall & Dickson
City: Syracuse, NY
Date: 1847
Pages: pp. 239
Notes: pp. 63-78 describe a purported visit to Monticello in 1815, including a dinner party at which TJ entertained Melbourn, a freed slave John Marshall, Elder John Leland, and Samuel Latham Mitchill, all at the same table. Antislavery fiction which has been uncritically accepted as true.
Reference: 526


Name: Hamowy , Ronald
Title: "Jefferson and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Critique of Garry Wills's Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 36
Date: (1979)
Pages: 503-23
Notes: Claims that "Despite Wills's conjectures ... the available data strongly suggest that it was Locke and not Hutcheson to whom Jefferson was indebted" when he drew up the Declaration. Charges that ultimately "Wills has invented a new Jefferson influenced by a Scottish moral philosophy which Wills has seriously misconstrued."
Reference: 2267


Name: Hampton , Vernon B.
Title: "Jefferson Not a Church Member"

Publication: Religious Background of the White House
Publisher: Christopher Publishing House
City: Boston
Date: 1932
Pages: 374
Notes: See also pp. 23-26; slight.
Reference: 2268


Name: Hanchette , William F., Jr.
Title: "Politics and the Judiciary Under Jefferson."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of California
City: Berkeley
Date: 1949
Pages: none given
Reference: 1657


Name: Hancock , James Denton
Title: The Louisiana Purchase Treated in Its Relations to the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Address delivered ... before Sons of the American Revolution at Pittsburgh, Pa., February 22d, 1899

Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: none given
Notes: TJ's reservations about the constitutionality of the Purchase indicate that settlement of the American West is no model to justify annexation of the Philippines.
Reference: 1658


Name: Handler , Philip
Title: "The University in a World in Transition."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 46
Date: (1974)
Pages: 177-97
Notes: "How would the United States and its universities seem to Thomas Jefferson today?"
Reference: 2854


Name: Hannon , Stuart L.
Title: "The Mind of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Foreign Service Journal
Volume: 32
Date: 1955
Pages: 20-21
Reference: 527


Name: Hans , Nicholas
Title: "Franklin, Jefferson, and the English Radicals at the End of the Eighteenth Century."

Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 98
Date: (1954)
Pages: 406-26
Notes: Describes TJ's relations with religious and political reform societies in England, particularly the Deistic Society (Society of 13) and the Society of Constitutional Whigs.
Reference: 2269


Name: Hans , Nicholas
Title: "Tsar Alexander I and Jefferson: Unpublished Correspondence."

Publication: Slavonic and East European Review
Volume: 32
Date: (1954)
Pages: 215-25
Notes: Letters of 1802-07, both to and from Alexander and about Alexander from other correspondents; introduction and notes.
Reference: 1659


Name: Hans , Nicholas
Title: "The Project of Transferring the University of Geneval to America."

Publication: History of Education Quarterly
Volume: 8
Date: (1968)
Pages: 246-51
Notes: Good account; deals with TJ's role in the negotiations.
Reference: 2855


Name: Hanson , Galen
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Unity beyond Factions—Yet Unity with Vigorous Factions"

Publication: Candles in Conscience. Ventures in the Statecraft of Rigor and Restraint
Publisher: Harlo Press
City: Detroit
Date: 1965
Pages: 64-70
Notes: Commonplace account of TJ on freedom of speech and opinion.
Reference: 1660


Name: Haraszti , Zoltan
Title: "Jefferson's Bill of Religious Freedom."

Publication: Boston Public Library Quarterly
Volume: 7
Date: (1955)
Pages: 221-23
Notes: Note describing its enactment; the Boston Library claims to have the only known copy of the earliest printing of the Bill.
Reference: 528


Name: Harbrecht , Rosemary
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Man of Culture."

Publication: Social Studies
Volume: 41
Date: (1950)
Pages: 258-60
Notes: Sketch of TJ's interests in music, literature, and architecture.
Reference: 2856


Name: Hardon , John A.
Title: "The Jefferson Bible."

Publication: American Ecclesiastical Review
Volume: 130
Date: (1954)
Pages: 361-75
Notes: Detailed account of The Life and Morals of Jesus; claims TJ's idea of materialism has been frequently misunderstood.
Reference: 2270


Name: Harnit , Fanny
Title: "Monticello."

Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 50
Date: (1917)
Pages: 158-62
Reference: 529


Name: Harper , Samuel H.
Title: An Eulogium on the Late Thos. Jefferson & Jno. Adams, Pronounced in New Orleans, Aug. 16, 1826

Publisher: Lyman and Beardsleeq
City: New Orleans
Date: 1826
Pages: pp. 24
Reference: 530


Name: Harris , Herbert
Title: "Jeffersonian Democracy."

Publication: Current History
Volume: 46
Date: 1937
Pages: 69-72
Notes: On TJ's political ideas; he was the "father of Populism," but he also "initiated the great American custom of driving the money changers out of the temple and inviting them home to lunch."
Reference: 2271


Name: Harris , Ramon I
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Female Identification."

Publication: American Imago
Volume: 25
Date: (1968)
Pages: 371-83
Notes: Contends TJ's life is to be explained in terms of a female identification with his mother which represented "an identification with the aggressor." Interesting, but less than convincing.
Reference: 531


Name: Harrison , Frederic, ed.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The New Calendar of Great Men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages and Nations in the Positivist Calendar of Auguste Comte
Publisher: Macmillan
City: London
Date: 1892
Pages: 574-75
Reference: 532


Name: Harrison , Lowell H.
Title: "John Breckinridge and the Jefferson Administration."

Publication: Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal
Volume: 4
Date: 1967
Pages: 83-91
Notes: Focus on Breckinridge and his importance for guiding legislation through Congress during TJ's presidency.
Reference: 1662


Name: Harrison , Lowell H.
Title: "John Breckinridge and the Acquisition of Louisiana."

Publication: Louisiana Studies
Volume: 7
Date: (1968)
Pages: 7-30
Notes: Breckinridge worked closely with TJ on the Louisiana problem as he had earlier with the Kentucky Resolutions; focus on Breckinridge.
Reference: 1661


Name: Harrison , Lowell H.
Title: "Some Thomas Jefferson—John Breckinridge Correspondence."

Publication: Filson Club History Quarterly
Volume: 42
Date: (1968)
Pages: 252-77
Notes: Historical and biographical introductions point out how the correspondence reveals the increasing importance of Breckinridge as a Jeffersonian leader and friend prior to his death in 1806.
Reference: 533


Name: Harrison , Mary Louise
Title: "The Sage of Monticello."

Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 52
Date: (1918)
Pages: 32-36
Notes: Brief description of the house.
Reference: 534


Name: Harrold , Frances
Title: "The Upper House in Jeffersonian Political Theory."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 78
Date: (1970)
Pages: 281-94
Notes: TJ's opinions on the advantages of a bicameral legislature.
Reference: 2273


Name: Harrold , Frances Long
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Commonwealth of Virginia: A Study in Constitutional Thought."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Bryn Mawr
Date: 1960
Pages: pp. 368
Notes: Examines TJ's intellectual background and his life-long suspicion of unchecked power and authority. DAI 21/06, p. 1541.
Reference: 2272


Name: Hart , Andrew De Jarnette, Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Influence on the Foundation of Medical Instruction at the University of Virginia."

Publication: Annals of Medical History
Volume: n.s. 10
Date: (1938)
Pages: 47-60
Notes: Discusses TJ's work for the University, particularly in terms of his search for a medical professor. He projected a broad training in fundamentals rather than in a narrowly practical course.
Reference: 2857


Name: Hart , Charles Henry
Title: "Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: McClure's Magazine
Volume: 11
Date: (1898)
Pages: 47-55
Notes: Reproduces seven portraits with commentary.
Reference: 2858


Name: Hartman , Daniel W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Theory of Ward Republics: Its Impact on the Practice of American Local Government."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Mankato State Univ.
Date: 1971
Pages: none given
Reference: 1663


Name: Harvey , Alexander M.
Title: Jefferson and the American Constitution

Publisher: Capper Printing Co.
City: Topeka
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 23
Notes: TJ's great service was to drive the philosophy of the Declaration into the Constitution and to popularize it by demonstrating the possible strength of the government within its limitations.
Reference: 1665


Name: Harvey , Alexander Miller
Title: "Hamilton and Jefferson and the American Constitution."

Publication: Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society
Volume: 17
Date: (1926-28)
Pages: 744-87
Notes: Argues that "these great antagonists really lived in harmony and labored to the same end, and that their battle of the century was a fixed fight."
Reference: 1664


Name: Harvey , Charles M.
Title: "Origins of the Democratic Party."

Publication: The Chautauquan
Volume: 26
Date: (1898)
Pages: 526-30
Notes: The bank controversy of 1791 led to the establishment of the Republican party as TJ discovered serious differences with Hamilton. William McClay was not, as a descendant has claimed, the party's founder, but he may have been the "original Democrat."
Reference: 1666


Name: Harvey , Charles M.
Title: "Some Second Term Presidents."

Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 92
Date: (1903)
Pages: 736-42
Notes: Second term presidents tend to make "a larger assertion of authority," e.g. TJ and the embargo.
Reference: 1667


Name: Hash , Ronald J.
Title: "Slavery on Thomas Jefferson's Plantations."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Millersville State College
Date: 1969
Pages: none given
Reference: 535


Name: Haskell , Douglas
Title: "Hamilton Captures Jefferson."

Publication: Nation
Volume: 147
Date: (1938)
Pages: 674
Notes: "Lets not have an Andy Mellon memorial to the great Jefferson." Blames Mellon for picking John Russell Pope as architect of the Memorial.
Reference: 2859


Name: Haskins , Caryl P.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Sacred Gardens."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 43
Date: (1967)
Pages: 529-44
Notes: TJ's interest in gardening and his correlative interest in natural history point to qualities that keep him relevant to later generations, his "wonder at the natural world" and his "dedication to vitality and innovation and growth and aspiration."
Reference: 2860


Name: Haskins , Caryl Parker
Title: Mr. Jefferson and Wide America

Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1977
Pages: pp. 20
Notes: TJ's life illustrates a theme of diversity of experience played off against a constancy of democratic belief.
Reference: 536


Name: Hastings , George E.
Title: "Notes on the Beginnings of Aeronautics in America."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 25
Date: (1919)
Pages: 68-72
Notes: Describes the interest taken by TJ, Franklin, and Francis Hopkinson in hot air balloons.
Reference: 2861


Name: Hatch , Louis Clinton
Title: A History of the Vice-Presidency of the United States. Revised and edited by Earl L. Shoup

Publisher: American Historical Society
City: New York
Date: 1934
Pages: pp. viii, 437
Notes: TJ set the example for the inauguration of subsequent vice-presidents. Discussion of the elections of 1796 and 1800 on pp. I 20-33.
Reference: 1668


Name: Hausmann , Ruth H.
Title: "Jefferson at Monticello."

Publication: School Life
Volume: 18
Date: 1933
Pages: 90
Notes: Poem.
Reference: 2862


Name: Hawgood , John A.
Title: "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: History
Volume: 40
Date: (1955)
Pages: 273-85
Notes: Intelligent review of the contents of the first seven volumes of the Jefferson Papers.
Reference: 537


Name: Hawke , David
Title: A Transaction of Freemen: The Birth and Course of The Declaration of Independence

Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1964
Pages: pp. 282
Notes: An account of the Declaration focusing on TJ's role in conceiving and drafting it. Ably written popular history, contending that the Declaration revealed the appearance of a "solid ideological basis for unity" in the new country and has been a continuing force against the status quo and vested interests.
Reference: 1669


Name: Hawke , David Freeman
Title: Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Publisher: Norton
City: New York
Date: 1980
Pages: pp. xvi, 273
Notes: Popular history; pp. 3-22 deal with TJ's initiation of and instructions to the expedition. Nothing new.
Reference: 2863


Name: Hawkes , Francis Lister
Title: "Character of Mr. Jefferson."

Publication: New York Review
Volume: 1
Date: (1837)
Pages: 1-58
Notes: Printed separately as A Criticism on Tucker's 'Life of Jefferson'. New York, 1837. pp. 58. Review essay on Tucker's biography attacks TJ for supposed irreligion, dissimulation, and for cribbing from documents such as the Mecklenburg Declaration when writing the Declaration of Independence. This article provoked considerable response.
Reference: 538


Name: Haworth , Paul Leland
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—Poet."

Publication: Bookman
Volume: 31
Date: (1910)
Pages: 647-50
Notes: Claims the poem "Lovely Peggy" in mss. at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Library was in fact written by TJ and not merely copied. Highly dubious.
Reference: 2864


Name: Hay , Robert P.
Title: "The Glorious Departure of the American Patriarchs: Contemporary Reactions to the Deaths of Jefferson and Adams."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 35
Date: (1969)
Pages: 543-55
Notes: Deaths of Adams and TJ were taken as a providential sign of Divine approval of the republic.
Reference: 539


Name: Hayden , Ralston
Title: "The Senate and the Treaties of Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The Senate and Treaties, 1789-1817; The Development of the Treaty-making Functions of the United States During Their Formative Period
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1920
Pages: 130-68
Notes: Focuses on the role of the Senate in treaty-making and thus deals with the president as head of the executive branch and not with the Secretary of State; discusses the 1802 convention with Spain, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the King-Hawkesbury convention, and the 1805 treaty with Tripoli.
Reference: 1670


Name: Hays , Isaac Minis
Title: "A Note on the History of the Jefferson Manuscript Draught of the Declaration of Independence in the Library of the American Philosophical Society."

Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 37
Date: (1898)
Pages: 88-107
Notes: Useful note describing this and 5 other copies in TJ's hand; claims this mss. is a copy of the original rough draft made on or about June 27, 1776.
Reference: 1672


Name: Hays , Isaac Minis
Title: "A Contribution to the Bibliography of the Declaration of Independence."

Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 39
Date: (1900)
Pages: 69-78
Notes: Note on the first printed versions of the Declaration.
Reference: 1671


Name: Hazelton , Jean Hanvey
Title: "The Hemings Family of Monticello."

Publication: unpub. paper
Publisher: Claremont Graduate School
Date: 1960
Pages: pp.19
Notes: Copy in Univ. of Virginia Library. Detailed account of the Hemings family, relying mostly on the Farm Book and a few other sources, including Madison Heming's supposed autobiography.
Reference: 540


Name: Hazelton , Jean Hanvey
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Gourmet."

Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 15
Date: 1964
Pages: 20-21, 102-05
Notes: Discusses TJ's meals as prepared by his maitre de h'otel, Etienne Lemaire, from 1806 to 1809; information gathered from Lemaire's Day Book.
Reference: 2865


Name: Hazelton , John H.
Title: The Declaration of Independence: Its History

Publisher: Dodd Mead
City: New York
Date: 1906
Pages: pp. vii, 629
Notes: A careful and intensive study of the Declaration and the circumstances of its creation; still useful.
Reference: 1673


Name: Hazelton , John H.
Title: "The Declaration of Independence."

Publication: Case and Comment
Volume: 24
Date: 1917
Pages: 87-91
Notes: Account of the negotiations in Congress.
Reference: 1674


Name: Hazen , Charles Downer
Title: "Thomas Jefferson in France"

Publication: Contemporary Opinion of the French Revolution
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1897
Pages: 1-53
Notes: Focus is on TJ's official duties and on his consultations with the moderate revolutionaries; ends with his leaving at the outbreak of the revolution, unaware of how violent it will become.
Reference: 1675


Name: Healey , Robert M.
Title: Jefferson on Religion in Public Education

Publisher: Yale Univ. Press
City: New Haven
Date: 1962
Pages: pp. xi, 294
Notes: Argues that TJ's belief in the principle of separation of church and state and his belief in the importance of public education were not mutually dependent but were "parallel developments rooted equally in his total philosophy" and were both essential to democracy. Rpt. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1970.
Reference: 2867


Name: Healey , Robert Mathieu
Title: "Jefferson on Religion in Public Education."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Yale Univ.
Date: 1959
Notes: See #2867.
Reference: 2866


Name: Heatwole , C. J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as an Architect."

Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 361-63
Notes: TJ's "influence on American architecture is evidenced everywhere in this country, particularly in the South."
Reference: 2869


Name: Heatwole , Cornelius J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Education in Virginia."

Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 17
Date: (1924)
Pages: 282-84
Notes: Historical sketch.
Reference: 2868


Name: Heinlein , Jay C.
Title: "Albert Gallatin: A Pioneer in Public Administration."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 7
Date: (1950)
Pages: 64-94
Notes: Includes observations on "how Gallatin's views [concerning public office] may have been shaped by the President, ... and the nature and effect of Gallatin's influence on Jefferson and administration policy."
Reference: 1676


Name: Hellenbrand , Harold Leonard
Title: "The Unfinished Revolution: Education and Community in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Stanford Univ.
Date: 1980
Pages: pp. xi, 612
Notes: Examines the interplay between TJ's educational and political ideas; contends that in the early 1800~s he was "cornered by his own philosophy and temperament into playing the political and pedagogical tyrant." DAI 41/08A, p. 3636.
Reference: 2274


Name: Heller , Francis H
Title: "Monticello and the University of Virginia, 1825: A German Prince's Travel Notes."

Publication: Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society
Volume: 7
Date: (1946-47)
Pages: 29-35
Notes: The Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach visits TJ; see item # 122.
Reference: 541


Name: Hellman , C. Doris
Title: "Jefferson's Efforts towards the Decimilization of the United States Weights and Measures."

Publication: Isis
Volume: 16
Date: (1931)
Pages: 266-314
Notes: TJ in 1783 worked for the decimalization of coinage and later proposed similar rationalizations for all weights and measures. Although Congress took no action on this, he continued to promote the idea in his correspondence.
Reference: 2870


Name: Hemings , Madison
Title: "Life among the Lowly."

Publication: Pike County Republican
City: (Waverly, Ohio)
Date: 1873
Pages: 4
Notes: Rpt. in Brodie, Thomas Jefferson (1974), 471-76, as "Reminiscences of Madison Hemings." Supposedly the autobiography of one of Sally Heming's children. Handle with care.
Reference: 542


Name: Hemphill , John M., III., ed.
Title: "Edmund Randolph Assumes Thomas Jefferson's Practice."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 67
Date: (1959)
Pages: 170-71
Notes: Prints a circular issued by Randolph announcing assumption of TJ's law practices, with critical endorsements by James Parker.
Reference: 543


Name: Hemphill , W. Edwin
Title: "The Jeffersonian Background of the Louisiana Purchase."

Publication: MVHR
Volume: 22
Date: (1935)
Pages: 177-90
Notes: "... long before 1803 Thomas Jefferson was the primary statesman in the United States' struggle for unrestricted use of the greatest river system on the continent, and ... he followed for a number of years a systematic policy to attain this national good."
Reference: 1678


Name: Hemphill , William Edwin
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Personal Property Taxes."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 1
Date: 1952
Pages: 18-19
Notes: Records in the State Library show taxes on land and personal property taxes which provide information on the way of life at Monticello.
Reference: 544


Name: Hemphill , William Edwin
Title: "'In a Constant Struggle."'

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 2
Date: 1953
Pages: 8-15
Notes: How and why Virginians voted for TJ in 1800.
Reference: 1677


Name: Hench , Atcheson L.
Title: "Jefferson and Ossian."

Publication: Modern Language Notes
Volume: 43
Date: (1928)
Pages: 537
Notes: Points to Chastellux's account of TJ on Ossian; minor.
Reference: 2871


Name: Henderson , Alfred
Title: "Jefferson and the Submarine."

Publication: Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia
Volume: 3rd ser. 11
Date: (1918)
Pages: 82-85
Notes: Only a paragraph on TJ's correspondence with Pulton; rest is random jottings.
Reference: 2872


Name: Henderson , John C.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Views on Public Education

Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1890
Pages: pp. viii, 387
Notes: Discursive, unfocused.
Reference: 2873


Name: Henderson , Josie Duncan
Title: Thomas Jefferson at Home

Publisher: The author
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1954
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Fanciful sketch.
Reference: 545


Name: Hendricks , Gordon
Title: "A Wish to Please and a Willingness to Be Pleased."

Publication: American Art Journal
Volume: 2
Date: 1970
Pages: 16-29
Notes: On Bass Otis and his portraits of TJ, Madison, and Monroe.
Reference: 2874


Name: Hendrickson , Walter B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—Up From Slander."

Publication: Social Education
Volume: 18
Date: (1954)
Pages: 244-48
Notes: Argues that biographers from George Tucker to Dumas Malone and Nathan Schachner have progressively corrected the slanders of the Federalists and the historians they influenced.
Reference: 546


Name: Hendrix , J. A.
Title: "Presidential Addresses to Congress: Woodrow Wilson and the Jeffersonian Tradition."

Publication: Southern Speech Journal
Volume: 31
Date: (1966)
Pages: 285-94
Reference: 1679


Name: Henkels , Stan V.
Title: The Hampton L. Carson Collection of Engraved Portraits of Jefferson, Franklin, and Lafayette. Catalogue 906, Part 11. Compiled and Sale Conducted by Stan. V. Henkels

Publisher: Davis and Harvey
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1904
Pages: 1-20
Reference: 2875


Name: Henkels , Stan V
Title: "Jefferson's Recollection of Patrick Henry."

Publication: PMHB
Volume: 34
Date: (1910)
Pages: 385-418
Notes: Correspondence with William Wirt, who was collecting material for his biography of Henry; no introduction or annotation.
Reference: 547


Name: Henkels , Stan V.
Title: "Introduction" to The Confidential Letters Prom Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt. Being Reminiscences of Patrick Henry, Now, For the first time printed in full from the originals, In the collection belonging to John Gribbel of Philadelphia

Publisher: Privately printed
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1912
Pages: i-lv
Notes: Discusses the correspondence, Patrick Henry; for the letters see PMHB. 34(1910), 358-418, but supposedly here they are "copied verbatim, et literatim, et punctuatim."
Reference: 1680


Name: Henline , Ruth
Title: "A Study of Notes on the State of Vir~inia as an Evidence of Jefferson's Reaction against the Theories of the French Naturalists."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 55
Date: (1947)
Pages: 233-46
Notes: Contends the Notes are in part TJ's response to Buffon and his theory of the degeneration of species in the New World.
Reference: 2876


Name: Henne , Anna Louise
Title: "Die staatstheoretischen Anschauungen Thomas Jefferson's."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Zurich
Date: 1934
Pages: pp. 133
Reference: 2275


Name: Henneman , John B.
Title: "Two Pioneers in the Historical Study of English: Thomas Jefferson and Louis F. Klipstein."

Publication: PMLA
Volume: 8
Date: (1893)
Pages: xliixlix (Appendix)
Notes: The best early account of TJ's interest in Anglo-Saxon.
Reference: 2877


Name: Henrich , Joseph George
Title: "The Triumph of Ideology: The Jeffersonians and the Navy, 1779-1807."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Duke Univ.
City: Durham
Date: 1971
Pages: pp. vi, 420
Notes: TJ was in 1800 sympathetic to anti-Navy ideology in his party, but not ready to give up his previous pro-Navy views. ~rom 1801 to 1807 he generally supported the requests of the Navy for funds, despite Gallatin's urge to economize. There was no clear administrative naval policy, and only after the Chesapeake affair did the administration come up with a policy on the use of the new gunboats.
Reference: 1682


Name: Henrich , Joseph George
Title: "Thomas Paine's Short Career as a Naval Architect, August-October 1807."

Publication: American Neptune
Volume: 34
Date: (1974)
Pages: 1 23-34
Notes: On Paine's designs for gunboats; focus not on TJ but informative about his naval policy.
Reference: 1681


Name: Henry , William Wirt
Title: Character and Public Career of Patrick Henry Comments upon Mr. Jefferson's Letter

City: Richmond?
Date: 1867
Pages: pp. 8
Notes: Responding to an article in the Richmond Dispatch, defends Henry and calls for publication of all of TJ's correspondence with William Wirt. In one letter TJ had claimed Henry was "avaritious and rotten-hearted."
Reference: 548


Name: Herndon , G. Melvin
Title: "Keeping an Eye on the British: William Tatham and the Chesapeake Affair."

Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 22
Date: 1972
Pages: 30-39
Notes: Tatham sent Td daily dispatches on the British fleet in July, 1806.
Reference: 1683


Name: Herwald , Michelle
Title: "Man from Monticello: Jefferson as an Enlightened Figure."

Publication: Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly
Volume: 59
Date: (1975)
Pages: 82-84
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 2276


Name: Herzberg , Max J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Man of Letters."

Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 13
Date: (1914)
Pages: 310-27
Notes: TJ's writings on the whole are more interesting for historical value than for literary significance, except for the Declaration of Independence. All of his writings reveal the puzzling contradictions of his character.
Reference: 2879


Name: Heslep , Robert D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's View of Equal Social Opportunity."

Publication: Educational Theory
Volume: 13
Date: (1963)
Pages: 142-48
Reference: 2278


Name: Heslep , Robert D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Major Philosophical Principles."

Publication: Educational Theory
Volume: 16
Date: (1966)
Pages: 151-62
Notes: Argues that TJ's educational philosophy is controlled by a number of philosophically vague terms and hence his educational inquiries are not terribly helpful for solving present day problems. Challenging.
Reference: 2277


Name: Heslep , Robert D.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and Education

Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Date: 1969
Pages: pp. 131
Notes: Argues that TJ's view of education is important because it is grounded "on a fairly distinct philosophical basis" and can serve as a benchmark against which later programs' claims to be "democratic" can be exposed as lacking clarity and justification.
Reference: 2880


Name: Heslep , Robert Durham
Title: "The Views of Jefferson and Dewey as Bases for Clarifying the Role of Education in an American Democratic State."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago
Date: 1963
Notes: See #2880.
Reference: 2881


Name: Heyer , William C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Belief in Providence"

Publication: American Trust in Providence, An Outline of the Topic Along General Lines
Publisher: R. G. Badger
City: Boston
Date: 1925
Pages: none given
Reference: 2279


Name: Hickey , Agnes McCarthy
Title: "Monticello, The Home of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Literary Digest
Volume: 101
Date: 1929
Pages: 34
Notes: A sonnet.
Reference: 2882


Name: Hicks , Clifford B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Lives Here."

Publication: Popular Mechanics Magazine
Volume: 102
Date: 1954
Pages: 97-103, 212-16
Notes: Illustrated article with emphasis on TJ's techniques of construction and on the restoration by the Memorial Foundation.
Reference: 2883


Name: Higginson , Thomas Wentworth
Title: "The Early American Presidents."

Publication: Harper's Magazine
Volume: 68
Date: (1884)
Pages: 548-60
Notes: Historical sketch.
Reference: 550


Name: Higgs , Robert J.
Title: "Versions of 'Natural Man' in Appalachia"

Publication: An Appalachian Symposium: Essays Written in Honor of Cratis D. Williams, ed. J. W. Williamson
Publisher: Appalachian State Univ. Press
City: Boone, N.C.
Date: 1977
Pages: 159-68
Notes: Contends that Hobbes, Rousseau, and TJ offer three contradictory types of the natural man as found in the literature of Appalachia. Little of value on TJ.
Reference: 2280


Name: Hill , C. William.
Title: "Contrasting Themes in the Political Theories of Jefferson, Calhoun, and John Taylor of Caroline."

Publication: Publius
Volume: 6
Date: 1976
Pages: 73-92
Notes: Detailed examination of similarities and distinctions between the thought of Taylor and both TJ and Calhoun, contending the key is Taylor's "philosophic rationalism." Suggestive.
Reference: 2281


Name: Hillard , George S.
Title: "Citizen Genet."

Publication: Littell's Living Age
Volume: 72
Date: (1862)
Pages: 729-40
Notes: Discusses the Genet episode in light of correspondence published in Witt's Thomas Jefferson.
Reference: 1684


Name: Hillbruner , Anthony
Title: "Word and Deed: Jefferson's Addresses to the Indians."

Publication: Speech Monographs
Volume: 30
Date: (1963)
Pages: 328-34
Notes: "Simple logic and clear-cut structure were the major rhetorical features" of TJ's speeches to visiting Indians. Claims that after 1803 the tone of the addresses becomes paternal instead of fraternal, a response to changing historical und political pressures. Argues that TJ is a better speaker than he is given credit for, but that the evolving Indian policy revealed in the addresses shows him to be less of a democratic idealist than is sometimes thought.
Reference: 2884


Name: Hinsdale , Mary L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: A History of the President's Cabinet
Publisher: George Wahr
City: Ann Arbor
Date: 1911
Pages: 39-47
Notes: Superficial.
Reference: 1685


Name: Hirst , Francis W
Title: Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. xviii, 588
Notes: English author's admiring biography; attacks the Hamiltonian charges that TJ did not understand public finance.
Reference: 551


Name: Hitchcock , Margaret R.
Title: "The Mastodon of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences
Volume: 21
Date: (1931)
Pages: 80-86
Notes: Describes the mastodon jawbones at the Univ. of Virginia which were given by TJ.
Reference: 2885


Name: Hoar , George Frisbie
Title: "Special Introduction"

Publication: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Lipscomb and Bergh
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
City: Washington
Date: 1903
Pages: 1:vii-xiii
Notes: Notes that the proof of TJ's greatness can be seen in the attempts of every variety of political opinion in the U.S. to ground itself in his writings.
Reference: 553


Name: Hodges , Wiley E.
Title: "Pro-governmentalism in Virginia, 1789-1836: A Pragmatic Liberal Pattern in the Political Heritage."

Publication: Journal of Politics
Volume: 25
Date: (1963)
Pages: 333-60
Notes: Contends that many Virginians, TJ among them, "believed that government should regulate and promote the economic and other interests of individuals." Evidence for TJ's adherence to this view comes mostly from his action in support of public education.
Reference: 2282


Name: Hodgson , Joseph Jr.
Title: An Address Delivered Before the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia, at Its Anniversary Celebration, Held in the Public Hall, April 13, 1857

Publisher: J. D. Hammersley
City: Richmond
Date: 1857
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Political progress and the error of secession; a pro-union appeal to the authority of TJ.
Reference: 1687


Name: Hofstadter , Richard
Title: "Parrington and the Jeffersonian Tradition."

Publication: Journal of the History of Ideas
Volume: 2
Date: (1941)
Pages: 391-400
Notes: Criticizes Parrington for ascribing too much of TJ's agrarianism to the physiocrats.
Reference: 2283


Name: Hofstadter , Richard
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: The Aristocrat as Democrat"

Publication: The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York
Date: 1948
Pages: 18-43
Notes: Treats TJ as an agrarian, republican idealist who had to observe the "Federalization" of his own party, as by 1816 it took over "the whole complex of Federalist policies." TJ was sustained by his optimism despite this.
Reference: 1689


Name: Hofstadter , Richard
Title: The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840

Publisher: Univ. of California Press
City: Berkeley
Date: 1969
Pages: pp. xiii, 280
Notes: First two chapters examine various conceptions of party; third and fourth chapters follow TJ and Madison from legitimate opposition to power. Suggests that among other reasons for TJ's preference for political moderation was his basically 18th-century notion of party. Suggestive.
Reference: 1688


Name: Hoge , James
Title: Proceedings of the United States Court, Gentlemen of the Bar, and Citizens of Columbus, in Testimony of Respect for the Late Thomas Jefferson ~ John Adams) also, the Discourse Delivered on the Occasion by the Rev. James Hoge. Published by Order of the Bar

Publisher: George Nashee & Co.
City: Columbus, Ohio
Date: 1826
Pages: pp. 20
Reference: 554


Name: Holifield , E. Brooks
Title: "Jefferson: Sensation"

Publication: The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture 1795-1860
Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
City: Durham
Date: 1978
Pages: 57-62
Notes: Claims that religious reform for TJ entailed a progress "from sensation to a purified tradition and thence to a renewed moral sensibility." Discusses TJ's reading of Tracy, Cabanis, and Priestley; brief but intelligent.
Reference: 2284


Name: Holland , Corabelle A.
Title: "The Jefferson Memorial in Wales."

Publication: American Foreign Service Journal
Volume: 10
Date: (1933)
Pages: 396-97
Notes: Unveiling of a memorial tablet for TJ in Glyceiriog.
Reference: 555


Name: Holliday , Carl
Title: "The Man Who Wrote the Declaration."

Publication: Methodist Quarterly Review
Volume: 73
Date: (1924)
Pages: 453-68
Notes: Biographical sketch; TJ's big flaw was his occasionally impractical idealism.
Reference: 557


Name: Holliday , Carl
Title: "The Amazing Versatility of Jefferson."

Publication: Overland Monthly
Volume: 88
Date: (1930)
Pages: 359-60
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 556


Name: Hollis , Christopher
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The American Heresy
Publisher: Sheed and Ward
City: London
Date: 1927
Pages: 6-81
Notes: America's heresy is the rejection of the Jeffersonian concept of the state in favor of Hamiltonian principles; TJ is broadly praised, partly by minimizing almost all of his contemporaries.
Reference: 558


Name: Holloway , Laura C.
Title: "Martha Jefferson"

Publication: The Ladies of the White House; or, In the Home of the Presidents. Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to the Present Time—1789-1881
Publisher: Bradley and Co
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1881
Pages: 126-70
Notes: Account of Martha Jefferson Randolph
Reference: 559


Name: Holmes , Lowell D.
Title: "Portrait in Science: Jefferson's Avocation."

Publication: Natural History
Volume: 74
Date: 1965
Pages: 59-62
Notes: Intelligent survey of TJ as an anthropologist, of his "visionary research methods and his role in promoting the collection and utilization of data."
Reference: 2887


Name: Holmes , Prescott
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Lives of the Presidents
Publisher: Henry Altemus
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1898
Pages: 46-67
Notes: Juvenile
Reference: 560


Name: Holmgren , Rod
Title: "Jefferson's Debt."

Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 88
Date: 1959
Pages: 83-85
Notes: Brief account of the 1826 lottery.
Reference: 561


Name: Holway , Hope
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, The Radical Intellectual"

Publication: Radicals of Yesterday, Great American Tradition
Publisher: Cooperative Books
City: Norman, Okla.
Date: 1941
Pages: 11-23
Reference: 2285


Name: Holway , John
Title: "Trzy Legaty Jeffersona."

Publication: Ameryka
Volume: 150
Date: 1971
Pages: 48-50
Notes: "Three Gifts of Jefferson," in Polish; followed by a description of Monticello.
Reference: 562


Name: Honeywell , Roy J.
Title: The Educational Work of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
City: Cambridge
Date: 1931
Pages: pp. xvi, 295
Notes: Argues that TJ was "among the foremost advocates of appropriate and progressive education for all, and of that cornerstone of democracy, the American public school." Still standard, but can be usefully supplemented. Rpt. in New York: Russell and Russell, 1964.
Reference: 2887


Name: Honeywell , Roy J.
Title: "President Jefferson and His Successors."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 46
Date: (1940)
Pages: 64-75
Notes: Examines TJ's correspondence with Madison in the latter's presidency and finds that although TJ gave advice in the interests of party unity, there is in fact little evidence for his dominating Madison QS a "party oracle."
Reference: 1690


Name: Honeywell , Roy J.
Title: "A Note on the Educational Work of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: History of Education Quarterly
Volume: 9
Date: (1969)
Pages: 64-72
Notes: Surveys TJ's activities encouraging education.
Reference: 2888


Name: Hook , Sidney
Title: The Paradox of Freedom

Publisher: Univ. of California Press
City: Berkeley
Date: 1962
Pages: pp. ix, 152
Notes: Claiming "The true Jeffersonian can recognize as supreme only that authority which Jefferson regarded as supreme in human affairs: the authority of human reason," tries to demonstrate how moral rights "develop out of the marriage of interests and intelligence."
Reference: 2286


Name: Hooker , Richard J., ed.
Title: "John Marshall on the Judiciary, the Republicans, and Jefferson, March 4, 1801."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 53
Date: (1948)
Pages: 518-20
Notes: Prints an accurate, annotated version of a Marshall letter written on the day of TJ's first inauguration.
Reference: 1691


Name: Hopkins , Frederick M.
Title: "Notes on Jefferson's Library."

Publication: Publisher's Weekly
Volume: 139
Date: (1941)
Pages: 1158-59, 1413
Notes: Brief comment.
Reference: 2889


Name: Horn , Stanley F.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson on Lotteries and Education."

Publication: Tennessee Historical Quarterly
Volume: 3
Date: (1944)
Pages: 273-74
Notes: Describes a letter of 1810 to the trustees in charge of a lottery for East Tennessee College; TJ disapproved of lotteries but gave advice on the ideal college.
Reference: 2890


Name: Horn , William A.
Title: "The Jeffersonian Metrics."

Publication: American Education
Volume: 12
Date: 1976
Pages: inside cover
Notes: Note on TJ's proposed decimal measures.
Reference: 2891


Name: Horsley , Catherine Dunscombe
Title: "Jefferson—The Churchman."

Publication: Quarterly
Volume: 25
Date: (1943)
Pages: 1-3
Notes: Claims TJ as an Episcopalian; see item #2162 for a refutation of this view.
Reference: 2287


Name: Horsman , Reginald
Title: "American Indian Policy in the Old Northwest, 1783-1812."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 18
Date: (1961)
Pages: 35-53
Notes: TJ "was able to combine an apparent genuine interest in the welfare of the Indian with a voracious appetite for Indian land."
Reference: 1693


Name: Horsman , Reginald
Title: "The Ambivalence of Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Expansion and American Indian Policy, 1783-1812
Publisher: Michigan State Univ. Press
City: East Lansing
Date: 1967
Pages: 104-14
Notes: Contends that TJ was caught between a desire to civilize the Indians and a desire for their land. Competent, but see Sheehan, Seeds of Extinction, for a more recent statement.
Reference: 1692


Name: Horton , Andrew S.
Title: "Jefferson and Korais: The American Revolution and the Greek Constitution."

Publication: Comparative Literature Studies
Volume: 13
Date: (1976)
Pages: 323-29
Notes: Argues for TJ's influence on Adamantios Korais and the Greek Constitution of 1827; a bit tenuous.
Reference: 2288


Name: Hoskins , Janina W.
Title: "'A Lesson Which All Our Countrymen Should Study': Jefferson Views Poland."

Publication: Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
Volume: 33
Date: (1976)
Pages: 29-46
Notes: Carefully describes TJ's knowledge of affairs in Poland; the lesson he recommends is to be aware of the suicidal results of dissension.
Reference: 1694


Name: Hoslett , Schuyler D.
Title: "Jefferson and England: The Embargo as a Measure of Coercion."

Publication: Americana
Volume: 34
Date: (1940)
Pages: 39-54
Notes: The embargo had a measurable economic effect, but it was not continued for long enough to have a political effect.
Reference: 1695


Name: Hosmer , Charles B., Jr.
Title: "The Levys and the Restoration of Monticello."

Publication: American Jewish Historical Quarterly
Volume: 53
Date: (1964)
Pages: 219-52
Notes: Good account of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation's genesis and campaign to purchase Monticello.
Reference: 563


Name: Hosmer , James K.
Title: The History of the Louisiana Purchase

Publisher: Appleton
City: New York
Date: 1902
Pages: pp. xiv, 230
Notes: Popular history which gives ample space to TJ's role in the purchase and the subsequent debate over its constitutionality.
Reference: 1696


Name: Houghton , W. M.
Title: "Open Letter to Mr. Jefferson."

Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 37
Date: (1936)
Pages: 273-76
Notes: Conservative's lament; the New Deal has "violated all your principles."
Reference: 564


Name: Houghton , Walter R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Administrations"

Publication: History of American Politics (Non-Partisan) Embracing a History of the Federal Government and of Political Parties in the Colonies and United States from 1607-1882
Publisher: F. T. Neeley
City: Indianapolis
Date: 1883
Pages: 159-72
Notes: Republicanism becomes "responsible" once in power.
Reference: 1697


Name: Houlette , William D.
Title: "Books of the Virginia Dynasty."

Publication: The Library Quarterly
Volume: 24
Date: (1954)
Pages: 226-39
Notes: Discursive treatment of the reading and book-collecting habits of the first four presidents from Virginia; TJ discussed on pp. 229-35.
Reference: 2892


Name: House , Ray
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Some Souvenir Lines for the Bicentennial
Publisher: Dorrance
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1975
Pages: 23-25
Notes: Poem.
Reference: 2893


Name: Howard , George Elliott
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Eather of American Democracy"

Publication: Biography of American Statesmanship: An Analytical Reference Syllabus
Publisher: Univ. of Nebraska
City: Lincoln
Date: 1909
Pages: 31-34
Notes: Notes for a course given in 1907-08 and 1908-09 to study "nationbuilding through the lives of the builders."
Reference: 565


Name: Howard , Seymour
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Art Gallery for Monticello."

Publication: Art Bulletin
Volume: 59
Date: (1977)
Pages: 583-600
Notes: On TJ's plans to acquire paintings and statues for Monticello. In the 1770's and 1780's he most desired a copy of the Venus de Medicis, to which, reportedly, Martha Wayles Jefferson bore a striking resemblance.
Reference: 2895


Name: Howe , Henry
Title: Historical Collections of Virginia

Publisher: Babcock & Co.
City: Charleston, S.C.
Date: 1845
Pages: 1 4-7
Notes: Section on Albemarle County is largely given over to TJ and his works; derivative.
Reference: 566


Name: Howell , Wilbur Samuel
Title: "The Declaration of Independence and Eighteenth-Century Logic."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 18
Date: (1961)
Pages: 463-84
Notes: Contends that "an unmistakable parallelism exists between the argumentative structure of the Declaration and the theory of argumentative structure set forth in the most significant of the logics and rhetorics of Jefferson's time, particularly William Duncan's The Elements of Logick.
Reference: 2896


Name: Howell , Wilbur Samuel
Title: "The Declaration of Independence: Some Adventures with America's Political Masterpiece."

Publication: Quarterly Journal of Speech
Volume: 62
Date: (1976)
Pages: 221-33
Notes: Argues again for the rhetorical influence of William Duncan's Elements of Logick.
Reference: 2897


Name: Howell , Wilbur Samuel
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Commentary
Volume: 67
Date: 1979
Pages: 8-9
Notes: Summarizes two of his articles on rhetorical influences on the Declaration for the benefit of Garry Wills.
Reference: 2898


Name: Howland , William S.
Title: "The Oenologist of Monticello: Music, Art, Architecture, Poetry, Agriculture and Wine"

Publication: Jefferson and Wine, ed. R. deTreville Lawrence, Sr.
Publisher: Vinifera Wine Grower's Association
City: The Plains, Va.
Date: 1976
Pages: 1-8
Notes: Rambling survey of TJ's interest in wine and wine-making.
Reference: 2899


Name: Hubbard , Elbert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
Publisher: G. P. Putman's
City: New York
Date: 1898
Pages: 223-58
Notes: Frequently reprinted. TJ offers "an almost ideal example of simplicity, moderation and brotherly kindness."
Reference: 567


Name: Hubbard , Elbert and John J. Lentz
Title: Thomas Jefferson -- A Little Journey by Elbert Hubbard, and an Address by John J. Lentz, Being two attempts to help perpetuate the memory and pass along the influence of the Great American

Publisher: Roycrofters
City: East Aurora
Date: 1906
Pages: pp. 105
Notes: Rpt. of Hubbard (1898); the Lentz 4th of July address seeks to counter the argument that TJ was a conservative aristocrat, claiming that "he was at all times the radical of radicals."
Reference: 568


Name: Hubbard , Simeon
Title: A Dirge: On the Death of Our Illustrious 2d and 3d Presidents, hastily Composed on Hearing That of the Latter

Publisher: Office of the Norwich Courier
City: Norwich, Conn.
Date: 1826
Pages: broadside
Reference: 569


Name: Hubbard , William
Title: "Looking at an Architecture of Convention"

Publication: Complicity and Conviction: Steps toward an Architecture of Convention
Publisher: MIT Press
City: Cambridge
Date: 1980
Pages: 159-201
Notes: Interesting comparison of TJ's design for the Lawn at the Univ. of Virginia and the design for Kresge College at the Univ. of California at Santa Cruz. Claims the Lawn presents itself to us as a picture of what we could be.
Reference: 2900


Name: Hubbell , Jay Broadus
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The South in American Literature
Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
City: Durham
Date: 1954
Pages: 122
Notes: Surveys TJ's philosophy, discusses his literary interests, and comments on the literary quality of his writings. Notes of his style, "His comprehensive mind, like that ot Walt Whitman or Henry James, was too frequently unwilling to abandon qualifying phrases and clauses, even in the interest of the conciseness which he admired in Tacitus and Sallust."
Reference: 2901


Name: Huddleston , Eugene L
Title: Thomas Jefferson, A Reference Guide.

Publisher: G. K. Hall
City: Boston
Date: 1982
Pages: pp. xxiii, 374.
Notes: Annotates about 1300 items, both scholarly and popular; not critical, occasionally inaccurate, but useful for students.
Reference: 13


Name: Hudnut , Joseph
Title: "Classical Architecture Not Essential."

Publication: Architectural Record
Volume: 82
Date: 1937
Pages: 54-55
Notes: TJ himself was a progressive architect; on the Memorial design.
Reference: 2902


Name: Hudnut , Joseph
Title: "Twilight of the Gods."

Publication: Magazine of Art
Volume: 30
Date: (1937)
Pages: 480-84, 522-24
Notes: Argues that the TJ Memorial has called into question the doctrinaire neo-classicism of Washington, D.C. Since TJ's own architecture was committed to his time, we should be committed to ours and consider the plan of Le Corbusier.
Reference: 2904


Name: Hudnut , Joseph
Title: "Temple for Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 98
Date: (1939)
Pages: 190-91
Notes: Criticizes the Jefferson Memorial for its pompously pretentious architecture.
Reference: 2903


Name: Hudson , Rector
Title: "Captain Christopher Hudson Insures Jefferson's Safety."

Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 22
Date: (1940)
Pages: 97-101
Notes: Hudson warned TJ of Tarleton's approach, but only after Jack Jouett had already delivered his warning.
Reference: 570


Name: Huegli , Jon M.
Title: "Jeffersonian Rhetoric: Persistent Witness to Democratic Republicanism."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Indiana Univ.
Date: 1967
Reference: 2905


Name: Hughes , Robert
Title: "Jefferson: Taste of the Founder."

Publication: Time
Volume: 108
Date: 1976
Pages: 51
Notes: Report on the Eye of Thomas Jefferson exhibit.
Reference: 2906


Name: Hughes , Thomas L.
Title: "Washington, Jefferson, and the Fault Lines of Foreign Policy."

Publication: Vital Speeches
Volume: 45
Date: 1979
Pages: 625-28
Reference: 1698


Name: Huhner , Leon
Title: "Jefferson's Contemplated Offer of the Post of Attorney General of the United States to Moses (?) Levy, of Philadelphia."

Publication: American Jewish Historical Society Publications
Volume: 20
Date: (1911)
Pages: 161-62
Notes: In a letter to Gallatin, dated Sept. 1, 1804, he mentions the possibility of naming "Levy" as Attorney General; this was probably not Moses Levy nor his brother Sampson.
Reference: 1699


Name: Humphrey , Heman
Title: "Review of A Selection of Eulogies..."

Publication: Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews
Publisher: J.S. & C. Adams
City: Amherst
Date: 1834
Pages: 361-92
Notes: Review of funeral eulogies for TJ and Adams.
Reference: 571


Name: Humphrey , Henry B., Jr.
Title: "Homes of Our Presidents."

Publication: Country Life
Volume: 50
Date: 1926
Pages: 37-39
Notes: Derivative sketch.
Reference: 2907


Name: Hunt , Gaillard
Title: "Office Seeking During Jefferson's Administration."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 3
Date: (1898)
Pages: 270-91
Notes: "The applications for office during Jefferson's administration prove beyond dispute that prevailing public sentiment on the subject of appointments and removals was in favor of their being made for political reasons. Jefferson recognized and followed this sentiment, and he achieved a popularity which increased instead of diminishing."
Reference: 1700


Name: Hunt , Gaillard
Title: "The Virginia Declaration of Rights and Cardinal Bellarmine."

Publication: Catholic Historical Review
Volume: 3
Date: (1917)
Pages: 276-89
Notes: Argues that TJ and George Mason derived the concept of the natural equality of man and the people's right of governing from Robert Bellarmine by way of Filmer's Patriarcha, Sidney, and Locke.
Reference: 2290


Name: Huntley , William B.
Title: "Jefferson's Public and Private Religion."

Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 79
Date: (1980)
Pages: 286-301
Notes: Contends that TJ's religion had two foci, one expressed in public documents as a form of American civil religion, the other in private correspondence where he created a more tentative communal language of faith. Suggestive.
Reference: 2289


Name: Hutcheson , John R.
Title: "A Tribute from the Land-Grant College Association."

Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 19
Date: (1945)
Pages: 178
Notes: TJ pioneered work carried on later by land-grant colleges.
Reference: 2908


Name: Hutchins , Frank and Cortelle
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Longmans
City: New York
Date: 1946
Pages: pp. vii, 279
Notes: Biography for teenagers.
Reference: 572


Name: Hutchins , Robert Maynard
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Intellectual Love of God"

Publication: No Friendly Voice
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1936
Pages: 59-69
Reference: 2291


Name: Huxtable , Ada Louise
Title: "Jefferson's Virginia"

Publication: Kicked a Building Lately?
Publisher: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co.
City: New York
Date: 1976
Pages: 198-202
Notes: Discusses design for the Univ. of Virginia which "combines an intimate human scale with controlled, universal vistas." Originally in New York Times, March 9, 1975; rpt. as "Thomas Jefferson's Grand Paradox" in American Traditions: A House and Garden Guide. New York: House and Garden, 1976, 57.
Reference: 2909


Name: Huyck , Dorothy Boyle
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Greatest Service."

Publication: The Iron Worker
Volume: 37
Date: 1973
Pages: 3-10
Notes: TJ's service to agriculture, including the mouldboard of least resistance.
Reference: 2910




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