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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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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