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Additional resources for this
issue of HISTORY NOW
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The Election of 1800
Here is the full information on recent secondary studies
cited by Joanne Freeman in her essay:
Ferling, John. Adams vs. Jefferson (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2004)
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Freeman, Joanne. Affairs of Honor: National Politics
in the New Republic (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2001)
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Horn, James P. P., et al., eds. The Revolution
of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002).
Wills, Garry. Negro President: Jefferson and the
Slave Power (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
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ERIC provides another of its excellent "Digests" for this
election. Go to:
http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-2/1800.htm
And you'll find useful visual materials at the National
Archives "Treasures of Congress" Website:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/
treasures_of_congress/page_7.html#
Students have a rare opportunity to see and hear one of
our authors speak on a HISTORY NOW topic by going to the
Monticello website for Joanne Freeman's lecture series,
"Gossip, Dueling, and Political Culture in the Early Republic":
http://www.monticello.org/streaming/speakers/freeman.html
The same website provides a helpful bibliography on Jefferson,
politics, and statecraft:
http://www.monticello.org/reports/bibliography/politics.html
As well as a fine "Teaching Resources" page maintained
by the Monticello Education Department:
http://www.monticello.org/education/teaching.html
The papers of the leading political figures involved in
the election of 1800 and disputes over its results are
available in a variety of formats. Annotated letters and
documents from Hamilton and Burr can be consulted in:
Kline, Mary-Jo and Ryan, Joanne Wood, eds. Political
Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1983) and Syrett, Harold,
et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1961-1987).
The modern annotated edition of the Jefferson Papers:
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Boyd, Julian
et al, eds) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950-)
is 31 volumes to date and has reached only May 1800 in
its most recent volume; letters and documents covering
the 1800 election and its aftermath will appear in vol.
32, due to appear in the fall of 2005. The printed Jefferson
texts, however, can be supplemented by the images of Jefferson's
papers at the Library of Congress's American Memory Website:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
The Gilder Lehrman Collection provides the text of two
relevant documents:
Hamilton's letter to Harrison Gray Otis on the election,
December 23, 1800:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/docs_archive_ham3.html
And a fascinating letter on the contest in the House from
Elizur Goodrich to Stephen Twining, January 1, 1801:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/
display_results.php?id=GLC5754.2
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