A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studies Reginald Butler, the second director of UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much-cited but never published…

Offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation’s founding fathers. Challenging attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, this work…

Argues that the American Civil War was the first great war between modern nations, emerging from the wreckage of a federal union that was supposed to secure perpetual peace. Situating…

Here, the authors analyze Thomas Jefferson’s conception of American nationhood in light of the political and social demands facing the post-Revolutionary Republic in its formative years. The text helps readers…

This is an examination of the Thomas Jefferson and John Adams 1800 electoral race, arguably the most controversial in American history, a resulting tie threw the final decision into a…

Explores the historical consciousness of Americans caught up in the Revolution and its aftermath. By focusing on how various individuals and groups envisioned their future, the contributors show that revolutionary…