George W. Bush and Al Gore were by no means the first presidential hopefuls to find themselves embroiled in a
hotly contested electoral impasse. Two hundred years earlier, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams endured arguably
the most controversial and consequential election in American history. As the result of an intensely divided party
process—the Federalists and the Republicans each convinced that the other would destroy the new nation if in
control—the electoral system produced a tie, throwing the final decision to a House vote. Focusing on the wide range
of possible outcomes of the 1800-1801 melee, this collection of essays situates the American “Revolution of
1800” in a broad context of geopolitical and racial developments in the Atlantic world as a whole. In essays
written expressly for this volume, leading historians of the period examine the electoral, social, and political outcome
of Jefferson’s election in discussions strikingly relevant in the aftermath of the 2000 election.
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Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Bellesiles, Emory University
Jeanne Boydston, University of Wisconsin
Seth Cotlar, Willamette University
Gregory Evans Dowd, University of Notre Dame
Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University
Douglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College, Syracuse
Joanne Freeman, Yale University
James E. Lewis Jr., independent scholar
Robert M. S. McDonald, United States Military Academy, West Point
James Oakes, City University of New York Graduate Center
Jeffrey Pasley, University of Missouri, Columbia
Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University
Bethel Saler, Haverford College
James Sidbury, University of Texas
Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
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James Horn is Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and author of Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake.
Jan Ellen Lewis is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate History Program at Rutgers University, the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Family Values in Jefferson’s Virginia, and coeditor with Peter S. Onuf of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Virginia).
Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (Virginia).
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The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic
Edited by James Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, and Peter S. Onuf
512 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth ISBN 0-8139-2140-6 • $65.00
Paper ISBN 0-8139-2141-4 • $24.50
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