Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture
Edited by Peter S. Onuf and Jan E. Lewis
A Conference Convened by Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia,
and Jan E. Lewis. The conference goal, according to conveners
Peter Onuf of the University of Virginia and Jan Lewis of Rutgers
University is "to find out where we now stand - as
historians and engaged citizens - with respect to the history and
living legacy of slavery and race relations in our national
culture." The contemporary and historical implications of
Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings and the debate
rekindled by the recent DNA study will be explored in the open
session and will be the subject of a book to be published next
year by the University Press of Virginia.
The book will be the innaugural volume in a new series,
Jeffersonian America, edited by Peter Onuf and Jan Lewis, with
Joyce Appleby, Annette Gordon-Reed, James Horn, David Konig,
James Oakes, and Alan Taylor as advisory editors. This series
will illuminate the American republic's formative decades by
publishing the best new scholarship in the field. Younger and
established scholars will address the critical social, cultural,
and political issues that faced the founding generations as they
sought to establish a nation.
Conference Sponsors:
U.Va. Department of History, the University Press of Virginia,
and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, with support from
U.Va.'s College of Arts and Sciences, Institute
for Public History, and offices of the president and provost.
The Contributors
Speakers:
Julian Bond, Moderator, Chairman of the NAACP and U.Va. professor
of history.
Annette Gordon-Reed of New York Law School, author of Thomas
Jefferson and Sally
Hemings: An American Controversy
Dr. Eugene Foster, retired U.Va. Pathology professor who
coordinated the DNA tests of
Jefferson and Hemings descendants
Gordon S. Wood of Brown University, Pulitzer prize-winning author
of Radicalism of
the American Revolution and leading authority on the history of
the early republic.
Jack N. Rakove of Stanford University, Pulitzer Prize winning
author of Original
Meanings and other key works about America's founding
Jan Ellen Lewis of Rutgers University, author of The Pursuit of
Happiness: Family and
Values in Jefferson's Virginia
Brenda Stevenson of UCLA author of Black and White together and a
specialist in
Virginia social history
Rhys Isaac of the College of William and Mary, Pulitzer
prize-winning author of The
Transformation of Virginia
Winthrop Jordan of the Univ. of Mississippi, national Book
Award-winning author of
White Over Black
Philip Morgan, author of the prize-winning Slave Counterpoint and
other important works
on slavery
Lucia Stanton and Dianne Swann-Wright, historians at the
International Center for
Jefferson Studies and experts on Jefferson's slaves
Reginald Butler and Scot French of U.Va's Carter G. Woodson
Institute of
Afro-American and African Studies
Joshua Rothman is completing a work on race relations in
antebellum Virginia
325 pages 6 x 9
Cloth ISBN 0-8139-1918-5 $65.00
Paper ISBN 0-8139-1919-3 $17.95
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/onuf_lewis.html
November 1999
An Illustrated
Glossary of Early Southern
Architecture and Landscape
by Carl R. Lounsbury
Covering the full range of building in the South from 1607 to the
1820s, An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and
Landscape is now available for the first time in paperback. This
unique and exhaustive compilation traces the origin and
development of an American architectural vocabulary in the
colonies and states of the eastern seaboard from Delaware to
Georgia.
From the fortified earthfast dwellings of Jamestown to the
intellectualized landscape of Monticello, southern architectural
forms underwent major changes in their early period, as did the
language of building. Carl R. Lounsbury's illustrated glossary of
architectural and landscape terms delineates regional and
traditional terminology as well as classical influences
introduced in America through English architectural books and by
professionally trained craftsmen. Featuring 1,500 terms ranging
from building types to methods of construction, Lounsbury's book
is the first of its kind to identify and define the language of
building during this formative period of American architecture.
Abundantly illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings, An
Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape
is an ideal, and now affordable, resource for architectural and
cultural historians, preservationists, students of architecture,
and anyone who works with older buildings.
Reviews
"There are many glossaries of architectural terms, but even
the briefest compariston shows that Lounsbury's work far surpases
the others in quality and fills a large gap in the literature by
addressing the first two centuries of buillding in the southern
US...Given changes between historical usage and the landguage of
modern architectural analysis, it should be in the reference
collection of every library supporting the study of architecture
or American history."
--Choice
The Author
Carl R. Lounsbury is an Architectural Historian at the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation. In addition to conducting research on
the buildings of Colonial
Williamsburg, he has taught at Mary Washington College and
Virginia Commonwealth University. Lounsbury has been involved in
numerous restoration projects.
448 pages, 350
b&w illus., 7 1/2 x 10 paper
ISBN 0-8139-1923-1 • $30.00
A Republic for the
Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the
Early Republic
Edited by Donald R.Kennon
THIS VOLUME in the United States Capitol Historical Society's
Perspectives on the
American Revolution series explores how the architecture of the
Capitol is imbued with
the political culture of its time. Editor Donald R. Kennon
writes, "Just as the
constitutional framework for the new nation adapted and
reformulated classical theories
of republicanism, so too would the creation of its capital. The
classical past would serve
as models, but as models to be worked out in the context of the
new American experiment
in republicanism." These essays emanated from the syposium
held by the Society in
1993 to commemorate the bicentennial of the laying of the
cornerstone of the United
States Capitol.
The Editor
Donald R. Kennon is Chief Historian with the United States
Capitol Historical Society.
A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the
Political Culture of
the Early Republic
Edited by Donald R.Kennon
608 pages, 6 x 9 • Cloth $55.00
ISBN 0-8139-1795-6
Native Americans and
the Early Republic
Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert
At the 1795 treaty
council that sealed Anthony Wayne's victory at Fallen Timbers in
northwest Ohio, the Wyandot leader Tarhe spoke for the assembled
Native leaders when
he admonished the American emissaries: "Take care of your
little ones; an impartial father
equally regards all his children." Spoken two decades after
the minutemen's shots had
echoed across Lexington Green, Tarhe's words compel historians to
reconsider the rosy
truisms that customarily encircle the age of the Early Republic.
The essays in this volume begin to perform this important
reexamination of the Native
American experience in the post-Revolutionary period. Tarhe's
eloquent words and
similar evidence quoted by the volume's contributors show that
American Indians were
not defeated refugees who dutifully stood aside in the wake of
the British defeat, nor were
they passive victims of American expansion. The book's three
parts reflect the dynamic
nature of the Native Americans' struggle: the first provides
broad discussions of the
interaction between Native Americans and the United States in the
postwar era; the second
traces histories of specific tribal communities; and the third
explores the powerful
repertoire of stories and pictures that Americans used to
describe Native Americans to
themselves during an era of national expansion. These essays open
up for consideration a
more complex history of the Early Republic.
Contributors
Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College
R. David Edmunds, University of Texas at Dallas
Vivien Green Fryd, Vanderbilt University
Reginald Horsman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Elise Marienstras, University of Paris
Joel W. Martin, Franklin and Marshall College
James H. Merrell, Vassar College
Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina
Daniel K. Richter, Dickinson College
Daniel H. Usner Jr., Cornell University
Richard White, Stanford University
The Authors
Frederick E. Hoxie is Professor of History at the University of
Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Ronald Hoffman is Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and
Culture.
Peter J. Albert is coeditor of The Samuel Gompers Papers at the
University of
Maryland at College Park.
Native Americans and the Early Republic
Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert
391 pages, 12 b&w
illus. • 6 x 9
Cloth ISBN 0-8139-1873-1 $49.50 • Paper ISBN 0-8139-1913-4
$17.50
September 29, 2000