..., Peter Pelham and Thomas Jefferson. Hopkinson was a Pennsylvanian lawyer and political activist who was also a musician and composer. He helped organize the first subscription concerts in Philadelphia, and his music library contained copies of printed works of many British and Italian composers...

...Chapter 1 charts the friendships of three pairs of mixed-sex friends: Thomas Jefferson and Abigail Adams; Eloise Payne and William Ellery Channing; and Charles Loring and Mary Pierce. All three pairs sustained friendships over many years, in some cases decades, allowing for the evolution...

..., and a term increasing in circulation after Thomas Malthus published his influential essay. I read the US Constitution’s clause counting slaves as “three-fifths” of a person in dialogue with Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” and the American reprints of William Cowper’s series of poems...

... thought millennial thought deism enlightenment Whig ideology George Washington Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin I always considered the settlement of America with Reverence and Wonder, as the Opening of a grand scene and design of Providence. john adams ¹...

...This chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to introduce many of the essential controversies over religion in the Founding period, roughly from the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775 to the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1826. Feature documents related to major...

...This chapter presents the following documents: William Linn's opposition to Thomas Jefferson's candidacy for President, 1800; George Washington on religious liberty, 1789–1790; John Leland and the Baptist case for religious liberty, 1791; Thomas Jefferson and the Danbury Baptists, 1801–1802; Thomas...

...This chapter presents documents on the religious views of the following: Thomas Jefferson, 1787, 1803; John Adams, 1810, 1813; Benjamin Franklin, 1771, 1790; Thomas Paine, 1776; Patrick Henry, 1796; Samuel Adams, 1780, 1802; Roger Sherman, 1789; William Livingston, 1786; and Elias Boudinot, 1815...

... William Smith Jr Thomas Jefferson Summary View of the Rights Slavery Novanglus Olive Branch Petition Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms It requires a certain hypothetical license to guess whether the revolutionary bar could have crafted a winning brief—an argument that would have convinced king...

...Thomas Jefferson was elected as President of the United States on February 19, 1801. This chapter examines Martha Jefferson Randolph's life as the president's daughter. As the president's daughter, Martha sometimes participated in the political business of the capital's social life and helped...

...Beginning in 1819, Martha Jefferson Randolph's family problems proliferated. The brawl between Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Charles Bankhead on February 1, 1819 was the first of a series of episodes that would bring Martha and her family personal pain and public dishonor, culminating...

...This chapter looks at the debate between Thomas Jefferson and David Walker—an African American author—over whether New World African intellectual culture should be an entrance examination to the early American polity. It provides a reading of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia...

... Washington as a foundational “rock” upon which the Republic was founded; the Confederate States of America appropriated his image on their great seal in 1862. In the last years of his life, Washington rejected Thomas Jefferson's gesture toward nullification in his Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, and James...

... Thompson Krissah Wodehouse Artis From the Diary of Sally Hemings William Bolcom Sandra Seaton monodrama Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson interracial relationships DNA controversy Saartijie Baartman Edward Ball The Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson relationship is an “American” story. Through...

...Claims about Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon's theory of degeneracy and North America were well known to the founding fathers, and these accusations could not go unanswered. So offensive was the notion of degeneracy that Thomas Jefferson, the most vociferous Francophile of all the founders, took...

...This chapter describes the evolution of America into a commercial republic. Although one of its founders, Thomas Jefferson, favored agrarian society, he drafted the bills abolishing primogeniture and entail in his state of Virginia. This checked feudalism, with its “pseudo-aristocracy...

..., but was not limited to, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson) adopted a single, “strict” interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause. The chapter argues that there were actually varieties of strict interpretation, with different national bank opponents embracing different understandings of what it meant for means...

... of considerable critical controversy and debate. Of course, the source of the novel's controversy rests not on marriage but rather on its absence. Purporting to tell the stories of Thomas Jefferson's slave mistress, daughters, and granddaughters, Clotel provides one of the earliest fictional...

... New Orleans Thomas Jefferson conservatism antipatriotism federalism Napoleon Haiti Native Americans slavery 188 The cluster of longer writings discussed as the political pamphlets occupies an outsize place in considerations of Charles Brockden Brown’s work. ¹ The writings...

...Chapter 3 explores why the leading Founders held religious liberty to be an inalienable natural right. The chapter begins with Thomas Jefferson and the epistemological argument he offers in the Virginia Statute for Religious Liberty. It then turns to James Madison’s natural theology of religious...

...This introduction outlines an alternative history of agrarianism in the US, extending back to the time of Thomas Jefferson. It reveals agrarianism’s long-standing entanglement with early eugenics and theories of population control. Specifically, it argues that US writers and thinkers combined...