The religious pilgrimage of Thomas Jefferson / Paul K. Conkin -- Jefferson and the republic of letters / Douglas L. Wilson -- The first Monticello / Rhys Isaac -- "The blessings of domestic society" : Thomas Jefferson's family and the transformation of American politics / Jan Lewis -- "Those who labor for my happiness" : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Lucia C. Stanton -- Jefferson and slavery : "treason against the hopes of the world" / Paul Finkelman -- The intellectual reconstruction of Virginia in the age of Jefferson / Jack P. Greene -- Putting rights talk in its place : The summary view revisited / Stephen A. Conrad -- "The earth belongs in usufruct to the living" / Herbert Sloan -- Thomas Jefferson and the American democratic experience : the origins of the partisan press, popular political parties, and public opinion / Michael Lienesch -- Jefferson's union and the problem of internal improvements / John Lauritz Larson -- Jefferson and an American foreign policy / Walter Lafeber -- The trials and tribulations of Thomas Jefferson / Gordon S. Wood --

The strange career of Thomas Jefferson : race and slavery in American memory, 1943-1993 / Scot A. French and Edward L. Ayers

Afterword / Merrill D. Peterson.