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.... Ormond Seavey, George Washington University Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Denny and ‘‘The Port Folio 1801–1812. By William C. Dowling. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999...

...: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois . By Caroline F. Levander. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. Book Reviews By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution...

... in American Literature: American Sentiments from Jefferson to the 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 183 of 252 Jameses. By Kristin Boudreau. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2002. xv, 247 pp. $55.00...

... and Presidential Government . By Sean McCann. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xiv, 248 pp. $35.00. Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror . By John Michael. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. viii, 301 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50...

.... Ormond Seavey, George Washington University Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Denny and ‘‘The Port Folio 1801–1812. By William C. Dowling. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999...

...Jennifer T. Kennedy Duke University Press 2000 Jennifer T. Parricide of Memory: Thomas Jefferson’s Kennedy Memoir and the French Revolution 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 97 of 237 Thomas...

...Matthew Cordova Frankel Duke University Press 2002 Matthew ‘‘Nature’s Nation’’ Revisited: Citizenship and the Cordova Sublime in Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Frankel State of Virginia Thus, superficial appearances to the contrary, America...

...Sarah Rivett From 1790 to 1810, Thomas Jefferson inaugurated a massive effort to collect and preserve native languages. Compiling as many languages as he could, Jefferson worked to solve the question of Indian origins. More interesting for its failures than for what it achieved, the Indian...

... as a “logic and ethic of recovery” to a new focus, instead, on animating the mysteries of the past. With the example of James Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved chef (and Sally Hemings’s older brother), this essay shows how a set of techniques associated with the digital humanities—in particular, techniques...

... discourse—even when, after the outbreak of the Civil War, the political sensibilities of the British periodical were no longer sympathetic to the cause of abolition. Reading the ekphrastic relation between Punch cartoons of Shakespearean mock-ups of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and Douglass's...

..., Temple Drake, before Mississippi’s Governor (in act 2); and the encounter between Temple and Nancy as the latter awaits execu- tion in Jefferson’s jail (in act 3). Each act is prefaced by an essay that, in bardic tone, outlines the history of that act’s signal building: the courthouse (prologue 1...

... in the materiality of printed objects, with the exception of a lengthy meditation on the role Thomas Jefferson’s letter-copying machines played in his self-fashioning. Indeed, his argument about the eighteenth-century preacher George Whitefield, the first of the three central figures of interest in his book...

... interest to scholars of popular music, vernacular culture, and Civil War history. Mark Twain at the Gallows: Crime and Justice in His Western Writing, 1861–1873 . By Jarrod D. Roark. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2019. xi, 218 pp. Paper, $45.00. US writers have long synthesized national ideals...

... Book Reviews 429 through Jefferson’s simultaneous recognition of Banneker’s scientific compe- tence, which damns him with faint praise. The final essay, by Robert Levine, assesses Nathaniel Paul’s mixture...

.... The implications of Locke’s argument can be seen throughout transatlantic natural science, where efforts to catalogue the categories made by “Nature’s God” continually ran up against a natural world filled with ambiguous gradients. In Notes on the State of Virginia for example, Thomas Jefferson ([1785] 1999: 48...

... Arce. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2016. viii, 167 pp. Paper, $39.95; e-book available. Analyzing three of Paul Auster’s novels— Ghosts (1986), The Music of Chance (1991), and Mr. Vertigo (1994)—Arce traces the transnational influence of French writer and critic Maurice Blanchot on the US writer...

... of the United States, and most of its energies are devoted to New England and the mid-Atlantic states. While Thomas Jefferson appears at various points in the narrative, one suspects that he would play a larger role if that narrative were reoriented toward a broader Atlantic geography. Nevertheless...

...), this characterization betrays a perverse fondness that repeats Thomas Jefferson’s praise of the indigenous Americans whose annihilation he coolly documented. In Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), a text Hopkins knew, the third president held up the Indian chief Logan as an example of “eminence in oratory...

... on the subtle letter of racial recrimination that Benjamin Banneker penned to Thomas Jefferson, along with the gift of his meteorological ephemeris. Tracing the legacy of this correspondence through Jefferson’s condescending...

... Rights Party . 1837 . Declaration of Rights, and Constitution and By-laws of the Equal Rights Party of the City and County of New-York, Adopted at the County Meeting, July, 1837 . New York . Fliegelman Jay . 1993 . Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture...