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3.24 – Source Notes



Special thanks to Theshira Pather of the Legendary Africa podcast 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, John, Jr. “To Thomas Jefferson, 2 June 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0419. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 527.] [Last Accessed: 7 Nov 2020]
  • Buchanan, James. “Alfred Moore.” The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-1995, Second Edition. Clare Cushman, ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc, 1995. p. 56-60.
  • Chenicek, Jolynda Brock. Dereliction of Diplomacy: The American Consulates in Paris and Bordeaux during the Napoleonic Era, 1804-1815. Diss. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University, 2008. https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A182067. [Last Accessed: 23 Sep 2020]
  • Claiborne, William C C. “To Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0469. [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. 542–543.] [Last Accessed: 4 Oct 2020]
  • Crackel, Theodore J. Jefferson’s Army: Political and Social Reform of the Military Establishment, 1801-1809. New York and London: New York University Press, 1987.
  • Dangerfield, George. Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1960.
  • Dauer, Manning. “Election of 1804.” History of American Presidential Elections 1789-1968, Volume I. Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers and McGraw-Hill, 1971. pp. 159-169.
  • Ellis, Richard E. “Moore, Alfred.” The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L Hall, ed. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. p. 560.
  • Ernst, Robert. Rufus King: American Federalist. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
  • Gannon, Kevin M. “Escaping ‘Mr. Jefferson’s Plan of Destruction’: New England Federalists and the Idea of a Northern Confederacy, 1803-1804.” Journal of the Early Republic. 21:3 [Fall 2001] 413-443.
  • Hall, Kermit L, etc, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Hatfield, Joseph T. William Claiborne: Jeffersonian Centurion in the American Southwest. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 1976.
  • Historical Currency Converter (test version 1.0). http://www.historicalstatistics.org/Currencyconverter.html. [Last Accessed: 22 Sep 2020)
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “To James Monroe, 8 January 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0223. [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. 245–251.] [Last Accessed: 23 Sep 2020]
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “Notes on Supreme Court Candidates, 17 February 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0431. [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. 497–498.] [Last Accessed: 20 Sep 2020]
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “To the Senate, 22 March 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0064. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 71–72.] [Last Accessed: 21 Sep 2020]
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “To John Armstrong of New York, 26 May 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0378. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 490–491.] [Last Accessed: 5 Nov 2020]
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “To Constantin François Chasseboeuf Volney, 8 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1123. [Last Accessed: 7 Nov 2020]
  • Landry, Jerry. The Presidencies of the United States. 2017-2020. http://presidencies.blubrry.com.
  • Linklater, Andro. An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson. New York: Walker Publishing Co, 2009.
  • Livingston, Robert R. “To Thomas Jefferson, 12 Mar 1803.” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0037-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 40, 4 March–10 July 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 44–48.] [Last Accessed: 5 Nov 2020]
  • Madison, James. “To Robert R. Livingston, 7 February 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-06-02-0410. [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. 446–447.] [Last Accessed: 5 Nov 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.
  • McGuiness, Colleen, ed. American Leaders 1789-1994: A Biographical Summary. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1994.
  • Pride, David T. “William Johnson.” The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-1995, Second Edition. Clare Cushman, ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc, 1995. p. 66-70.
  • Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821.New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
  • Skeen, C Edward. John Armstrong, Jr. 1758-1843: A Biography. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1981.
  • VanBurkleo, Sandra F. “William Johnson.” The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L Hall, ed. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. p. 449-450.
  • Washington, George. “Statement before delivering response to the first Newburgh Address | Saturday, March 15, 1783.” George Washington’s Mount Vernon. https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/quotes/article/gentlemen-you-will-permit-me-to-put-on-my-spectacles-for-i-have-grown-not-only-gray-but-almost-blind-in-the-service-of-my-country/. [Last Accessed: 5 Nov 2020]
  • Zahniser, Marvin R. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Founding Father. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.

Featured Images: “Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney” by James Earl [c. 1795-1796], courtesy of Wikipedia, and “Rufus King” by Charles Willson Peale [c. 1818], courtesy of Wikipedia


3.24 – Truth and Consequences



Year(s) Discussed: 1803-1805

With a presidential election looming, the Jefferson administration had to consider how to wrap up the first term and transition to the second. For some, that meant moving into new positions. For others, retirement was in their future. As the campaign worked to rally the public, the decisions of 1804 made at home and abroad would have far-reaching consequences. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Images: “Thomas Jefferson” by Rembrandt Peale [c. 1800], courtesy of Wikipedia and “George Clinton” by Ezra Ames [c. 1814], courtesy of Wikipedia

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


S007 – Source Notes



Special thanks to Ben, Arjun, and Alex for providing the intro quotes for this episode! Please be sure to check out Wittenberg to Westphalia and Deep into History!

  • Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
  • Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
  • Blum, John Morton. Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974. New York and London: W W Norton & Co, 1992 [1991].
  • Brands, H W. Reagan: The Life. New York: Doubleday, 2015.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “1968 Pandemic (HeN2 virus).” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2 Jan 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html. [Last Accessed: 5 Sep 2020]
  • Christopher, Warren. Chances of a Lifetime. New York: Scribner, 2001.
  • Clifford, Clark, with Richard Holbrooke. Counsel to the President: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1991.
  • Dallek, Robert. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Diemer, Tom; Lee Leonard; and Richard G Zimmerman. James A. Rhodes: Ohio Colossus. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2014.
  • Foster, Patrick. George Romney: An American Life. Grapevine, TX: Waldorf Publishing, 2017.
  • Hall, Kermit L, etc, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975: Third Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996 [1979].
  • Humphrey, Hubert H, Jr. “14 July 1948, Speech to the Democratic National Convention.” Minnesota Historical Society. http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00442/pdfa/00442-00187.pdf. [Last Accessed: 30 Jun 2020]
  • Humphrey, Hubert H, Jr. “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 29 Aug 1968.” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/216659. [Last Accessed: 25 Sep 2020]
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. “Remarks at the University of Michigan, 22 May 1964.”Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/239689. [Last Accessed: 4 Jun 2020]
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. “Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, 10 January 1967.” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/238176. [Last Accessed: 4 Jun 2020]
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. “Special Message to the Congress: The State of the Budget and the Economy, 3 August 1967.” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/238045. [Last Accessed: 4 Jun 2020]
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. “The President’s Address to the Nation Announcing Steps To Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not To Seek Reelection, 31 March 1968.” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/238065. [Last Accessed: 21 Jul 2020]
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. “Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, 14 January 1969.” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/236130. [Last Accessed: 25 Sep 2020]
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
  • “Kennedy, Robert Francis (1925-1968).” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=K000114. [Last Accessed: 5 Jun 2020]
  • Kilgore, Kathleen. John Volpe: The Life of an Immigrant’s Son. Dublin, NH: Yankee Books, 1987.
  • Kirby, Alec; David G Dalin; and John F Rothmann. Harold E Stassen: The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, 2013.
  • Kramer, Michael, & Sam Roberts. “’I Never Wanted To Be Vice-President of Anything!’ An Investigative Biography of Nelson Rockefeller. New York: Basic Books, 1976.
  • Landry, Jerry. The Presidencies of the United States. 2017-2020. http://presidencies.blubrry.com.
  • Lesher, Stephan. George Wallace: American Populist. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1994 [1993].
  • Lewis, David L. King: A Biography. Urbana, IL; Chicago; and London: University of Illinois Press, 1978 [1970].
  • “McCarthy, Eugene Joseph (1916-2005).” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M000311. [Last Accessed: 4 Jun 2020]
  • Nelson, Michael. Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Challenging Dissent, and Dividing Government. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014.
  • Nevin, David. Muskie of Maine. New York: Random House, 1972.
  • Nixon, Richard M. “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, 8 August 1968.” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/256650. [Last Accessed: 25 Sep 2020]
  • Parmet, Herbert S. Richard Nixon and His America. New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1990.
  • “ROCKEFELLER, Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979).” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000363. [Last Accessed: 23 Jun 2020]
  • Sandbrook, Dominic. Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2004.
  • Schmitt, Edward R. President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy & the Politics of Poverty. Amherst, MA and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
  • Solberg, Carl. Hubert Humphrey: A Biography. New York and London: WW Norton & Co, 1984.
  • Tarr, David R, et al. Guide to U.S. Elections, Sixth Edition, Volume I. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010.
  • Thomas, Evan. Robert Kennedy: His Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002 [2000].
  • White, Theodore H. The Making of the President: 1964. New York: Atheneum, 1965.
  • White, Theodore H. The Making of the President: 1968. New York: Atheneum, 1969.
  • Witcover, Jules. Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. New York: PublicAffairs, 2007.
  • Wright, Amy Nathan. Civil Rights “Unfinished Business”: Poverty, Race, and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. Diss, University of Texas at Austin. 2007.

Featured Image: “Vice President Hubert Humphrey, President Lyndon Johnson, and General Creighton Abrams in a Cabinet Room meeting” [27 Mar 1968], courtesy of Wikipedia


S007 – Unprecedented Part III: 1968



Year(s) Discussed: 1907-1968

In a year of domestic unrest, social strife, and uncertainty at home and abroad, the United States prepared for a presidential election in 1968. Little did they know that it would be a contest unlike any other. In the midst of a turbulent campaign, political norms were challenged, rivalries were intensified, and the only guarantee was that a new chapter in American history would emerge after all the votes were in. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Lyndon Johnson meets with Presidential candidate Richard Nixon at the White House” by Yoichi Okamoto [26 Jul 1968], courtesy of Wikipedia

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