Monthly Archives: July 2020

3.20 – Source Notes



Special thanks to Alex for providing the English version of the intro quote for this episode!

  • Abernethy, Thomas P. The South in the New Nation 1789-1819: A History of the South, Volume IV. Wendell Holmes Stephenson and E Merton Coulter, eds. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1961.
  • Claiborne, William C C. “To James Madison, 2 January 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0254. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 274–278.] [Last Accessed: 29 Jun 2020]
  • Davis, Edwin Adams. Louisiana: The Pelican State. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1961 [1959].
  • DuBois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, MA and London, England, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005 [2004].
  • DuBois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Egerton, Douglas R. “’Fly across the River’: The Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802.” The North Carolina Historical Review. 68:2 [April 1991] 87-110.
  • Eliot, Charles W, ed. American Historical Documents, 1000-1904, With Introductions and Notes. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1969 [1910].
  • Garland, Hugh A. The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke. St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1970 [1850].
  • “The Haitian Declaration of Independence.” Office of News & Communications, Duke University. https://today.duke.edu/showcase/haitideclaration/declarationstext.html. [Last Accessed: 21 Jun 2020]
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “To Albert Gallatin, 9 November 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0516. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 41, 11 July–15 November 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 689–690.] [Last Accessed: 29 Jun 2020]
  • Landry, Jerry. The Presidencies of the United States. 2017-2020. http://presidencies.blubrry.com.
  • Lerner, William, et al. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970: Bicentennial Edition, Part 1. Washington, DC: US Bureau of the Census, 1975. https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/histstats-colonial-1970.pdf. [Last Accessed: 11 Jul 2020]
  • Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the President First Term, 1801-1805: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Four. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1970.
  • Sublette, Ned, and Constance Sublette. The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2016.
  • Turner, Lynn W. “The Impeachment of John Pickering.” The American Historical Review. 54:3 [April 1949] 485-507.

Featured Image: “Portrait of Thomas Worthington” by Charles Willson Peale [c. 1815], courtesy of Wikipedia


3.20 – Action and Reaction



Year(s) Discussed: 1801-1804

As Jefferson’s first term entered its final year, numerous developments at home and abroad would start chains of reactions with long-reaching consequences. In the Caribbean, a nation declared its independence that would prove to be of particular concern to white Americans in the southern US. Meanwhile, Congress debated what kind of government to establish for the new lands west of the Mississippi River, and the Senate convened in the first impeachment trial in American history. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Représentation épique de Jean-Jacques Dessalines lors de la Révolution haïtienne de 1804,” courtesy of Wikipedia

Intro and Outro Music: Selections from “Jefferson and Liberty” as performed by The Itinerant Band


3.19 – Source Notes



Special thanks to Jacob Collier of the Podcast on Germany for providing the intro quote for this episode!

  • Ammon, Harry. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999 [1971].
  • Armstrong, Thom M. Politics, Diplomacy and Intrigue in the Early Republic: The Cabinet Career of Robert Smith 1801-1811. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co, 1991.
  • Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1956.
  • Claiborne, William C C. “To Thomas Jefferson, 12 August 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0140. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 41, 11 July–15 November 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, p. 187.] [Last Accessed: 8 Jun 2020]
  • Claiborne, William C C. “To James Madison, 17 December 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0182. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 181.] [Last Accessed: 8 Jun 2020]
  • Claiborne, William C C. “To James Madison, 20 December 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0187. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 6, 1 November 1803 – 31 March 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Angela Kreider. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 188–189.] [Last Accessed: 8 Jun 2020]
  • Clinton, DeWitt. “To Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0040. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. 44–45.] [Last Accessed: 7 Jun 2020]
  • Einboden, Jeffrey. Jefferson’s Muslim Fugitives: The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, Their Arabic Letters, and an American President. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Ernst, Robert. Rufus King: American Federalist. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
  • Esdaile, Charles. Napoleon’s Wars: An International History. New York: Penguin, 2009 [2007].
  • Fedorak, Charles John. Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801-1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2002.
  • George III, King of Great Britain. “To Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0289. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 41, 11 July–15 November 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 387–388.] [Last Accessed: 23 May 2020]
  • Green, Constance McLaughlin. Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962.
  • Hatfield, Joseph T. William Claiborne: Jeffersonian Centurion in the American Southwest. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 1976.
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “To James Cheetham, 17 January 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-36-02-0239. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 36, 1 December 1801–3 March 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. 386–387.] [Last Accessed: 2 Jun 2020]
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “To William C. C. Claiborne, 18 July 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0052. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 41, 11 July–15 November 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, p. 84.] [Last Accessed: 8 Jun 2020]
  • Kaminski, John P. George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1993.
  • Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1994 [1971].
  • King, Rufus. “To James Madison, 10 April 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0143. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 3, 1 March–6 October 1802, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 118–119.] [Last Accessed: 23 May 2020]
  • Landry, Jerry. The Presidencies of the United States. 2017-2020. http://presidencies.blubrry.com.
  • Lester, Malcolm. Anthony Merry Redivivus: A Reappraisal of the British Minister to the United States, 1803-6. Charlottesvile, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1978.
  • Linklater, Andro. An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson. New York: Walker Publishing Co, 2009.
  • Livingston, Robert R. “To James Madison, 18 September 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0447. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 5, 16 May–31 October 1803, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Bradley J. Daigle. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 444–446.] [Last Accessed: 21 May 2020]
  • Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President 1756-1805. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
  • Madison, James. “To Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 18 April 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0632. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 527–533.] [Last Accessed: 21 May 2020]
  • Madison, James. “To Edward Thornton, 5 August 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0297. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 5, 16 May–31 October 1803, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Bradley J. Daigle. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 281–283.] [Last Accessed: 8 June 2020]
  • Madison, James. “To William C. C. Claiborne, 31 October 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0602. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 5, 16 May–31 October 1803, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Bradley J. Daigle. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 589–592.] [Last Accessed: 8 Jun 2020]
  • Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the President First Term, 1801-1805: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Four. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1970.
  • McGrath, Tim. James Monroe: A Life. New York: Penguin Random House, 2020.
  • Monroe, James. “To James Madison, 19 June 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0123. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 5, 16 May–31 October 1803, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Bradley J. Daigle. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 103–105.] [Last Accessed: 21 May 2020]
  • Perkins, Bradford. The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795-1805. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955.
  • Schom, Alan. Napoleon Bonaparte. New York: HarperCollins, 1998 [1997].
  • Seale, William. The President’s House: A History, Volume One. Washington, DC: White House Historical Association, 1986.
  • Sedgwick, John. War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel That Stunned the Nation. New York: New American Library, 2016 [2015].
  • Wilkinson, James. “To Alexander Hamilton, 15 November 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0001-0137. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, pp. 173–174.] [Last Accessed: 8 Jun 2020]

Featured Image: “Portrait of Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duc de Parme” by François-Séraphin Delpech after Nicolas Eustache Maurin [c. 1830], courtesy of Wikipedia


3.19 – The Not So Merry Merry



Year(s) Discussed: 1802-1803

The new British Minister to the US, Anthony Merry, arrived in Washington, DC in late 1803, and though his arrival was initially seen as a strengthening of British-American relations, it would soon prove to be quite the opposite. Meanwhile, the end of the year saw representatives of the Jefferson administration on both sides of the Atlantic assume new roles as well as Louisiana officially brought into the United States. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Dänische Post” by Johann Wilhelm Cordes [c. 1859], courtesy of Wikipedia

Intro and Outro Music: Selections from “Jefferson and Liberty” as performed by The Itinerant Band