Suggested Reading List

Architecture

General

• Kimball, Fiske, ed. Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Original Designs in the Coolidge Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society. New York: Da Capo Press, 1968. Originally published in 1916.  The first academic study of Thomas Jefferson's architectural drawings; includes facsimiles of some of the drawings now in the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
• Nichols, Frederick D. Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1961; rpt. 1995.  Contains a valuable checklist with brief descriptions of all known architectural drawings by Jefferson.
• Nichols, Frederick D., and Ralph E. Griswold. Thomas Jefferson Landscape Architect. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1978.
• O'Neal, William B. Jefferson's Fine Arts Library: His Selections for the University of Virginia Together with His Own Architectural Books at Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1976.

Monticello

• Beiswanger, William L. Monticello in Measured Drawings. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1998.  Text by Monticello's Robert H. Smith Director of Restoration, accompanied by reproductions of the measured drawings of Monticello done by the Historic American Buildings Survey.
• McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder. New York: Holt, 1988. A useful narrative of the construction of Monticello.

Other Buildings

• Chambers, S. Allen, Jr. Poplar Forest and Thomas Jefferson. Forest, Va.: Corporation for Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, 1993.
• Hogan, Pendleton. The Lawn: A Guide to Jefferson's University. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1987.
• Howard, Hugh. Thomas Jefferson, Architect: The Built Legacy of our Third President. New York: Rizzoli, 2003.  Examines all of the known architectural works of Thomas Jefferson.
• Kimball, Fiske. The Capitol of Virginia: A Landmark of American Architecture. Edited by Jon Kukla. Richmond: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1989.
• Wilson, Richard Guy, ed. Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 1993; rev. ed. 2009.

Art and Music

• Adams, William Howard, ed. Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1976.
• Berman, Eleanor Davidson. Jefferson Among the Arts: An Essay in Early American Aesthetics. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
• Bush, Alfred L. The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1962; rev. ed. 1987.
• Cripe, Helen C. Thomas Jefferson and Music. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1974.  Rev. ed., Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2009.
• Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye: Portraits for the People, 1800-1809. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1981.
• O'Neal, William B. Jefferson's Fine Arts Library: His Selections for the University of Virginia Together with His Own Architectural Books at Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1976.
• Stein, Susan R. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. New York: Abrams, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1993.

Biography

• Bernstein, R. B. Thomas Jefferson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. A well-regarded one-volume biography; fairly short (253 pages).
• Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. 414 pages. A reliable one-volume biography; tends to concentrate more on Jefferson's public career.
• Kimball, Marie. Kimball's unfinished multi-volume study of Jefferson does a particularly thorough job of discussing Jefferson's relationships, and contains a fairly extensive section on his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.
• • Jefferson, the Road to Glory, 1743 to 1776. New York: Coward-McCann, 1943. 358 pp.
  • Jefferson, War and Peace, 1776 to 1784. New York: Coward-McCann, 1947.
  • Jefferson, the Scene of Europe, 1784 to 1789. New York: Coward-McCann, 1950.
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948-1981. 6 vols. This seminal biography is one of the most famous ever written; careful scholarship and great detail.
• • Jefferson the Virginian. 1948. 484 pp.
  • Jefferson and the Rights of Man. 1951. 523 pp.
  • Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty. 1962. 545 pp.
  • Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805. 1970. 539 pp.
  • Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809. 1974. 704 pp.
  • The Sage of Monticello. 1981. 551 pp.
• Malone, Dumas. Thomas Jefferson: A Brief Biography. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1993. 48 pp. A reprint of Malone's 1933 essay on Jefferson for the Dictionary of American Biography, with a preface by Merrill Peterson.
• Mayo, Bernard (ed.). Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1942; reprinted by University Press of Virginia, 1970.  384 pp. This biography tells Jefferson's life story using excerpts from his own writings; highly readable.
• Peterson, Merrill.  Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.  1072 pp.  "The best one-volume biography," according to Frank Shuffelton (editor of Thomas Jefferson: a Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography), although somewhat longer than others.
• Padover, Saul K. Jefferson. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1942. 459 pp. Abridged version reprinted by New American Library in 1952 and 1970.
• Randall, Henry S. The Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858. This is one of the first major biographies of Thomas Jefferson, for which the author interviewed members of Jefferson's family. Modern reprints are available. Also available online: volume 1, 2, 3.
• Randolph, Sarah N. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Harper, 1871; reprinted in 1939 (University Press), 1947 (Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation), 1958 (Frederick Ungar), 1967 (Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation), and 1978 (University Press of Virginia).  Also available online.  A sentimental but highly readable and entertaining biography by Jefferson's great-granddaughter.

Books and Libraries

• Cole, John Y. Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993.
• Gilreath, James, and Douglas L. Wilson (eds.). Thomas Jefferson's Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1989. Online version available.
• Sowerby, E Millicent. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1952-1959. Subsequently published by the University Press of Virginia in 1983.  Online version available.
• Wilson, Douglas L. Jefferson's Books. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 1996.

Education

• Dabney, Virginius. Mr. Jefferson's University: A History. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1981.
• McDonald, Robert M.S., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2004.
• Wagoner, Jennings L., Jr. Jefferson and Education. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2004.
• Wills, Gary. Mr. Jefferson's University. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2002.

Family

• Betts, Edwin M., and James Bear, Jr., eds. The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1966. Reprinted Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1986.  Extensive (but not exhaustive) collection of transcribed letters between Thomas Jefferson, his children, grandchildren, and occasionally other relatives.
• Kern, Susan.  The Jeffersons at Shadwell.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010.  362 pp. 
• Langhorne, Elizabeth. Monticello, a Family Story. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987.  289 pp.
• Mayo, Bernard, ed. Thomas Jefferson and his Unknown Brother. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1981.  Brief introductory text and collected letters between Thomas Jefferson and his younger brother Randolph.
• Merrill, Boynton, Jr. Jefferson's Nephews: A Frontier Tragedy. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1987 (2nd ed.).  A study of the two sons of Thomas Jefferson's sister Lucy Jefferson Lewis, and their involvement in a murder case in Kentucky in 1811-1812.  Rich source of information on the extended Lewis-Jefferson family.
• Randall, Henry S. The Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. This is one of the first major biographies of Thomas Jefferson, for which the author interviewed members of Jefferson's family. Modern reprints are available.
• Randolph, Sarah N. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Harper, 1871; reprinted multiple times.  Also available online.  This book by Thomas Jefferson's great-granddaughter relates family stories about Thomas Jefferson and life at Monticello.
• Shackelford, George Green, ed. Collected Papers to Commemorate Fifty Years of the Monticello Association of the Descendants of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: Monticello Association, 1965. 2 vols.  These volumes contain biographical essays on many of Jefferson's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, along with genealogical information.

Food and Drink

• Fowler, Damon Lee, ed. Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2005. Includes essays by Monticello scholars on the food culture at Monticello, along with modernized versions of recipes from Jefferson family sources.
• Gabler, James M. Passions: The Wines & Travels of Thomas Jefferson. Baltimore: Bacchus Press, 1995.
• Kimball, Marie. Thomas Jefferson's Cook Book. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1938; reprinted multiple times.  The recipes in Thomas Jefferson's Cook Book are from a manuscript inherited by descendants of Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist.  There are a few recipes recorded by Jefferson himself, but most of the recipes included are from non-Monticello sources.  
• Lawrence, R. de Treville, III. Jefferson and Wine: Model of Moderation. The Plains, Va.: Vinifera Wine Growers Association, 1989.  A collection of essays by various scholars on Jefferson and wine.
• Randolph, Mary. The Virginia House-wife. Washington, D.C.: Davis and Force, 1824.  Reprinted multiple times; the 1984 edition edited by Karen Hess is the most widely available.  This collection of recipes was written and published by a relative of the Jefferson family by marriage.  Also available online.

Gardening and Horticulture

• Bemiss, Margaret Page. Historic Virginia Gardens: Preservation Work of the Garden Club of Virginia, 1975-2007. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2009. See especially Chapter 16, on the restoration of Monticello's gardens.
• Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, with Commentary and Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings. Princeton: Published for the American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press, 1953. Reprinted 1976, 1999. Contains a facsimile of Jefferson's Farm Book, including information about farm operations, slaves, livestock, crops, manufactories, etc. Also includes brief articles and excerpts from relevant letters. The manuscript of the Farm Book is available on the Massachusetts Historical Society website.
• Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, with Commentary and Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1944. Reprinted 1985, 1999. Contains a facsimile of Jefferson's Garden Book, including information about flowers, trees, fruits, etc. Also includes brief articles and excerpts from relevant letters. The manuscript of the Garden Book is available on the Massachusetts Historical Society website.
• Betts, Edwin M., and Hazelhurst Bolton Perkins. Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged by Peter J. Hatch. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 1986.
• Hatch, Peter J. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 1998.
• Hatch, Peter J. The Gardens of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1992; rpt. 1998.
• McEwan, Barbara. Thomas Jefferson, Farmer. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991.

Garden History

• Adams, Denise Wiles. Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants 1640-1940. Portland: Timber Press, 2004.
• Griffith, Lawrence D. Flowers and Herbs of Early America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008.
• Leighton, Ann. American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century: "For Comfort and Affluence". Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
• McMahon, Bernard. The American Gardener's Calendar. Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806.  Reprinted by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in 1997.  Also available online.
• Newcomb, Peggy Cornett. Popular Annuals of Eastern North America, 1865-1914. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985.
• Sarudy, Barbara Wells. Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Monticello

See also Gardening and Horticulture

• Bear, James A., Jr., ed. Jefferson at Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1967. Reminiscences of a former slave from Monticello, Isaac Jefferson (Grainger), and overseer Edmund Bacon.
• Leepson, Marc. Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built. New York: Free Press, 2001.  The story of the Levy family, owners of Monticello throughout much of the 19th and early 20th century.
• Jackson, Donald. A Year at Monticello, 1795. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 1989.
• Kelso, William M. Archaeology at Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1997.
• Peterson, Merrill D., ed. Visitors to Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1989. Selected first-hand accounts of visits to Monticello from 1780 to 1984.
• Stein, Susan R. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. New York: Abrams, in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1993.  This commemorative catalog documents many of the objects on display at Monticello for the 250th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
• Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2002.  Contains essays by Monticello's historians and curators on the architecture, furnishings and gardens at Monticello.
• Urofsky, Melvin I. The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2001.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.

• Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of Preservation and Education: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1923-1998.  Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1998.  Contains essays on the founding of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and the history of restoration efforts at Monticello, as well as a chronology of the Foundation.
• Cogliano, Francis D.  Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy.  Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2006.  See especially Chapter 4, "Monticello."
• West, Patricia.  Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums.  Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.  See Section 3, "Campaigning for Monticello," which examines the political background of the founding of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

Politics and Law

• Banning, Lance. Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations From the Founding. 1995.
• ---. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology. 1978.
• Caldwell, Lynton K. The Administrative Theories of Hamilton and Jefferson. 1987.
• Christman, Margaret C.S. The Spirit of Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds. 1992.
• Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Process of Government Under Jefferson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
• Dewey, Frank L. Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1986.  This book has a helpful appendix listing all of the manuscript sources for Jefferson's legal practice.
• Dumbauld, Edward. Thomas Jefferson and the Law.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.
• Dunn, Susan. Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
• Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. 2000.
• Ellis, Joseph J. What Did the Declaration Declare? 1999
• Kaminski, John P. Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher and Politician. 2005.
• Levy, Leonard W. Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side. 1989.
• McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. 1976.
• Matthews, Richard. The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson. 1986.
• Mayer, David N. The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson. 1994.
• Morgan, Edmund S. The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. 1976. Reprint 2004.
• Peterson, Merrill D. Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue.
• Schwartz, Bernard. Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling: Law & the Legal Profession in Pre-Revolutionary America. 1997.
• Sheehan, Bernard W. Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1973.
• Sheldon, Garrett Ward. The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. 1992.
• Tucker, Robert W., and David C. Hendrickson. Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson. 1990.
• Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic. 1969.

Religion

• Adams, Dickinson W. (ed.). Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: "The Philosophy of Jesus" and "The Life and Morals of Jesus." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. The introduction to this book, by the late Eugene Sheridan, is an excellent overview of Thomas Jefferson's religious development throughout his life. The book also contains facsimiles of Jefferson's two Bible compilations, and the full text of many of his letters in which he discusses religion.
• Gaustad, Edwin S. Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1996.
• Holmes, David. Faiths of the Founding Fathers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. A good broad introduction to the religious faith of many of the Founding Fathers, including Franklin, Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe, and of course Jefferson.
• Peterson, Merrill D., and Robert C. Vaughn, eds. The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences in American History.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Sanford, Charles B. The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1984. An in-depth examination of Jefferson's religious beliefs.
• Sheridan, Eugene R. Jefferson and Religion. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 1998. The text of this book, part of the Monticello Monograph series, is almost identical to the introduction to Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels (above).
• Spangler, Jewel L. Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2008. A good study of the evolution of religion in Virginia, setting the stage for Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom.
• Vicchio, Stephen J. Jefferson's Religion. Eugene, Or.: Wipf & Stock, 2007.
• Waldman, Stephen. Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America. New York: Random House, 2008. Another good overview of the historical context of Jefferson's religious beliefs, as well as those of other contemporaries.

Science and Exploration

• Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson and His Copying Machines. 1984.
• Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science. 1990.
• Cerami, Charles A. Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase. 2003.
• Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and James Madison. 1995.
• Cohen, I. Bernard, ed. Thomas Jefferson and the Sciences. 1980. Reprinted articles.
• Greene, John C. American Science in the Age of Jefferson. 1984.
• Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello. 1981.
• Miller, Charles A. Jefferson and Nature. 1993.
• Ronda, James P. Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West. 1997.
• Thomson, Keith. A Passion for Nature. 2008.

Slavery

Slavery and the Enslaved Community at Monticello

• Bear, James A., Jr., ed. Jefferson at Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1967. Reminiscences of a Monticello slave, Isaac Jefferson (Granger) and and overseer Edmund Bacon.
• Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, with Commentary and Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings. Princeton: Published for the American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press, 1953. Reprinted 1976, 1999. Contains a facsimile of Jefferson's Farm Book, including information about farm operations, slaves, livestock, crops, manufactories, etc. Also includes brief articles and excerpts from relevant letters. The manuscript of the Farm Book is available on the Massachusetts Historical Society website.
• Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello. New York: Norton, 2008.
• Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: Free Press, 1977; rpt. 1991.
• Onuf, Peter S., ed. Jeffersonian Legacies. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1993.  Includes three essays on Jefferson and slavery.
• Reed, Bernetiae.  The Slave Families of Thomas Jefferson: A Pictorial Study Book with an Interpretation of his Farm Book in Genealogy Charts.  Greensboro, N.C.: Sylvest-Sarah, 2007.
• Stanton, Lucia. Free Some Day: the African American Families of Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 2000.
• Stanton, Lucia. Slavery at Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1996.

More General Works on Slavery and African-American History

• Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.  New York: Pantheon, 1974.
• Goodheart, Lawrence B. et al, eds. Slavery in American Society. Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1993.
• Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery 1619-1877. New York: Hill & Wang, 1994.
• Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: Norton, 1975.
• Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
• Swann-Wright, Dianne. A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2002.
• Tate, Thad W. The Negro in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1965.
• Wright, Donald R. African Americans in the Early Republic: 1789-1831. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1993.

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson

• Burton, Cynthia H. Jefferson Vindicated: Fallacies, Omissions, and Contradictions in the Hemings Genealogical Search. 2005.
• Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello. New York: Norton, 2008.
• Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. 1997.
• Lewis, Jan Ellen and Peter Onuf, eds. Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory & Civic Culture. 1999.
• Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Research Committee.  Report on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.  Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 2000.

Thomas Jefferson's Writings

• Bear, James A., Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Two-volume set.
• Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book. 1953; rpt. 1976.
• Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book. 1944; rpt. 1985.
• Betts, Edwin M., and James A. Bear, Jr., eds. Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. 1966; rpt. 1985.
• Boyd, Julian P. The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text. 1999.
• Boyd, Julian P., and others, eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 1950 - present. 38 vols.
• Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters. 1959; rpt. 1987.
• Howell, Wilbur Samuel, ed. Jefferson's Parliamentary Writings. 1988.
• Jefferson, Thomas. The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790. 1914; reprint 2005.
• Koch, Adrienne, and William Peden, eds. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson. 1944; rpt. 1993.
• Looney, J. Jefferson et al, eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. 2004-present.  8 vols.
• Peden, William, ed. Notes on the State of Virginia. 1954.
• Peterson, Merrill D., ed. Thomas Jefferson: Writings. 1984.
• Smith, James Morton. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 1776-1826. 1994.
• Wilson, Douglas, ed. Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book. 1989.

Travel

• Adams, William Howard. The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson. 1997.
• Dumbauld, Edward. Thomas Jefferson, American Tourist : Being an Account of His Journeys in the United States of America, England, France, Italy, the Low Countries, and Germany. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946 (reprinted 1976).
• Maguire, Robert J., ed. The Tour to the Northern Lakes of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, May - June 1791. A facsimile edition of their travel journals. 1995.
• Moore, Roy and Alma. Thomas Jefferson's Journey to the South of France. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999.
• Rice, Howard C. Thomas Jefferson's Paris. 1976.
• Shackelford, George Green. Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789. 1995.