Table of Contents:
  • "What is to become of our government?" The revolutionary potential of the election of 1800 / James E. Lewis Jr
  • The political presidency: discovery and invention / Jack N. Rakove
  • " The soil will be soaked with blood": taking the revolution of 1800 seriously / Michael A. Bellesiles
  • Corruption and compromise in the election of 1800: the process of politics on the national stage / Joanne B. Freeman
  • 1800 as a revolution in political culture: newspapers, celebrations, voting, and democratization in the early republic / Jeffrey L. Pasley
  • Thomas Jefferson and the psychology of democracy / Joyce Appleby
  • Was there a religious revolution of 1800? / Robert M.S. McDonald
  • Thomas Jefferson in Gabriel's Virginia / James Sidbury
  • "Whom have I oppressed?" The pursuit of happiness and the happy slave / James Oakes
  • Making gender in the early republic: Judith Sargent Murray and the revolution of 1800 / Jeanne Boydston
  • Spinning wheel revolution / Gregory Evans Dowd
  • "Troubled water": rebellion and republicanism in the revolutionary French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois
  • The empire of liberty reconsidered / Douglas R. Egerton
  • Joseph Gales and the making of the Jeffersonian middle class / Seth Cotlar
  • An empire for liberty, a state for empire: the U.S. national state before and after the revolution of 1800 / Bethel Saler
  • A northern revolution of 1800? Upper Canada and Thomas Jefferson / Alan Taylor.