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3.27 – Source Notes

February 27, 2021Uncategorizedpresidencies

Special thanks to Roderick Aust for providing the intro quote for this episode, and be sure to check out the Zoom Shakespeare Company on Facebook! Special thanks also to our audio editor, Andrew Pfannkuche, for his work on this episode!

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“An Act further providing for the government of the district of Louisiana.” A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875, Statutes at Large, 8^th Congress, 2^nd Session. 331. http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002/llsl002.db&recNum=368. [Last Accessed: 24 Jan 2021]
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Burwell, William Armistead. “To Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-0742. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Burwell, William Armistead. “To Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1011. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
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.
“Crowninshield, Jacob (1770-1808).” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000947. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Crowninshield, Jacob. “To Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1031. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Crowninshield, Jacob. “To Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1205. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Crowninshield, Jacob. “To Thomas Jefferson, 23 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1225. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
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Gallatin, Albert. “To Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0300. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 344–347.] [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Gallatin, Albert. “To Thomas Jefferson, 3 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-0939. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Harrison, William Henry. “To Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0535. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 640–642.] [Last Accessed: 24 Jan 2021]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To William Henry Harrison, 27 February 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0500. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 589–593.] [Last Accessed: 24 Jan 2021]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To Levi Lincoln, 28 December 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-0905. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To Jacob Crowninshield, 26 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1045. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To William Armistead Burwell, 28 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1057. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To Jacob Crowninshield, 23 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1224. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
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Lincoln, Levi. “To Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-0896. [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
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Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982.
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Mason, John T. “To Thomas Jefferson, 5 May 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0257. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 7, 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 347–348.] [Last Accessed: 23 Jan 2021]
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Featured Image: “Jacob Crowninshield” by Robert Cutler Hinckley [c. 1921], courtesy of Wikipedia

3.27 – Second Term, Same as the Worst

February 27, 202103 - Thomas JeffersonAaron Burr, Albert Gallatin, Anthony Merry, Barbary States, France, George Clinton, Gideon Granger, Great Britain, Henry Dearborn, Indiana Territory, Isaac Coles, James Wilkinson, John Breckinridge, Levi Lincoln, Louisiana Territory, Mexico, Native Americans, Orleans Territory, Robert Smith, Spain, Texas, Thomas Jefferson, William Armistead Burwell, William Henry Harrisonpresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1803-1805

Jefferson’s second inauguration may have been a non-event, but on numerous fronts, various tensions were building in early 1805 that threatened to make his second term one to remember. Cabinet members plotted to further their own ambitions while Aaron Burr schemed with foreign powers and domestic discontents in order to return to prominence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the president, one of his appointments would put a double agent in place to potentially break the recently acquired Louisiana Purchase away from the US. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Thomas Jefferson” by Matthew Harris Jouett, courtesy of Wikipedia

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

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3.235 – Source Notes

February 14, 2021Uncategorizedpresidencies

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

Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997 [1996].
Fenster, Julie M. Jefferson’s America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation. New York: Broadway Books, 2016.
Jefferson, Thomas. “To William Dunbar, 24 June 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-31-02-0120. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 31, 1 February 1799 – 31 May 1800, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 137–139.] [Last Accessed: 2 Feb 2021]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To William Dunbar, 13 March 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0009. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 9–13.] [Last Accessed: 3 Feb 2021]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To William Dunbar, 15 April 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0209. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 242–243.] [Last Accessed: 3 Feb 2021]
“MITCHILL, Samuel Latham.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000831. [Last Accessed: 2 Feb 2021]
Treuer, Anton. Atlas of Indian Nations. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2013.

Featured Image: “William Dunbar” [c. 1800], courtesy of Wikipedia

3.235 – A Western Interlude

February 14, 202103 - Thomas JeffersonHenry Dearborn, Louisiana, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jeffersonpresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1804-1805

With the Lewis and Clark expedition underway to explore the upper reaches of the Missouri River, President Jefferson at the end of his first term turned his attention to gathering support and talent for expeditions in the southern portions of the Louisiana Purchase. Meanwhile, the Corps of Discovery arranged for Jefferson to get a first-hand account of life west of the Mississippi River. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Carte Du Mexique et des Pays Limitrophes Situes Au Nord et a l’est Dressee d’apres la Grande Carte de la Nouvelle Espagne De Mr. A. De Humboldt” by Alexander von Humboldt [c. 1811], courtesy of Wikipedia

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

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