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Peter S. Onuf
Thomas Jeffersonl Foundation Professor

One Nation or Two?: The Coming of the Civil War and the Politics of the Modern World

April 7, 2004
Winchester, VA


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On the shelf

ed. (with James Horn and Jan Ellen Lewis). The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002.

Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.

(with Leonard Sadosky) Jeffersonian America. Oxford: Basil Blackwell's, 2001.

ed. (with Jan Ellen Lewis). Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. University Press of Virginia, 1999.

(with Edward L. Ayers, Patricia N. Limerick, and Stephen Nissenbaum). All Over the Map: Rethinking Region and Nation in the United States. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

ed. Jeffersonian Legacies, University Press of Virginia, 1993.

(with Nicholas G. Onuf), Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolution, 1776-1814. Madison House, 1993.

(with Cathy D. Matson), A Union of Interests: Politics and Economics in Revolutionary America, University Press of Kansas, 1990.

(with Andrew R. L. Cayton), The Midwest and the Nation. Indiana University Press, 1990.

Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance. Indiana University Press, 1987.

Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.

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About the speaker

Peter Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor (1989) in the History Department at the University of Virginia. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

Onuf is widely regarded as the foremost Jeffersonian scholar of our time. He has written extensively on sectionalism, federalism, and political economy and on the political thought of Thomas Jefferson.

Current Research: History of federalism and sectionalism; Liberal Histories, Nation-Making and the Coming of the Civil War (with Nicholas G. Onuf).

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