Author:Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson
(1743–1826)

Thomas Jefferson

Works

Revolutionary Addresses

• A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
• Draft of the Declaration of Independence (28 June 1776)
• The Declaration of Independence of the United States (July 4th 1776)

Addresses to the Indians

• To Brother John Baptist de Coigne (June 1781)
• To Brother Handsome Lake (3 November 1802)
• To the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation (17 December 1803)
• To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation (10 January 1806)
• To the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation (30 December 1806)

Religious Scholarship and Political Theology

• The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth (1804) no extant copies known.
• The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Jefferson Bible (1820)
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
• Letter to the Danbury Baptists (1802), expressing his demurral on a national day of Thanksgiving

Inaugural Addresses

• First Inaugural Address (4 March 1801)
• Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1805)

State of the Union Addresses

• First State of the Union Address (8 December 1801)
• Second State of the Union Address (15 December 1802)
• Third State of the Union Address (17 October 1803)
• Fourth State of the Union Address (8 November 1804)
• Fifth State of the Union Address (3 December 1805)
• Sixth State of the Union Address (2 December 1806)
• Seventh State of the Union Address (27 October 1807)
• Eighth State of the Union Address (8 November 1808)

Messages to Congress

• Message to the Senate of April 8, 1802 – Regarding Article 6 of the Jay Treaty
• Message to the House of December 30, 1802 – Transmitting a letter from Manuel de Salcedo, Governor of Louisiana to William Claiborne Regarding the Treaty with Spain of 1795
• Message to the Senate of January 11, 1803 – Regarding Louisiana
• Message to Congress of January 18, 1803 – Secret message regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition to explore the West all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
• Message to the Senate of October 17, 1803 – Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• Message to the Senate and House of October 21, 1803 – Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• Message to the Senate and House of January 16, 1804 – Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• The Burr Conspiracy January 22, 1807 – Regarding the conspiracy led by the former Vice President Aaron Burr

Other Works

• Letters of Thomas Jefferson
• Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (6 January 1821)
• Opinion against the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 February 1791)
• Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
• Notes on the State of Virginia (1802)
• Manual of Parliamentary Practice, composed originally for the Senate of the United States (1849) (transcription project)
• Notes on the State of Virginia (1853)

Works about Jefferson

• General References
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," by John Bigelow in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 13) (1881)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," by William Peterfield Trent in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," by Francis Samuel Philbrick in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," by J. A. C. Chandler in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

• History of the United States 1801-09 (1889-90) by Henry Adams
  • The First Administration of Thomas Jefferson
  • The Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson
• "Thomas Jefferson" by James Parton in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• "Thomas Jefferson" in the The Atlantic Monthly
  • "Thomas Jefferson" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (6), pp. 706–717
  • "Thomas Jefferson" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (7), pp. 789–803
• Other
  • The Bloom of Monticello (1926) by Elizabeth Hatcher Sadler

Proclamations

• Proclamation 4430 – Gerald Ford, Thomas Jefferson Day, 1976
• Proclamation 6669 – Bill Clinton, April 13, 1994
• Proclamation 7426 – George W. Bush, April 12, 2001
• Proclamation 8001 – George W. Bush, April 13, 2006
• Proclamation 8125 – George W. Bush, April 11, 2007

On his works

• "Declaration of Independence, American," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Declaration of Independence," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Declaration of Independence," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Declaration of Independence," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Transcription projects

• Jefferson's Germantown letters
  • Transcription project
• Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson
  • Vol. 1 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 2 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 3 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 4 - Project Gutenberg

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.