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According to Wikipedia, Peter S. Onuf is an American historian and professor known for his work on U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Federalism. In 1989, he was named the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of the University of Virginia, a chair he held until retiring in 2012. The chair's previous occupants included Jefferson biographers Dumas Malone and Merrill D. Peterson; he was succeeded by Alan Taylor.

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Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance (1987) (108)
Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2000) (100)
The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders (1993) (88)
All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions (1996) (65)
Reflections on the Founding: Constitutional Historiography in Bicentennial Perspective (1989) (55)
The Revolution of 1800 : Democracy, Race, and the New Republic (2003) (45)
Jefferson, Morality, and the Problem of Slavery (2003) (44)
Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1776-1814 (1993) (44)
The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787 (1984) (41)
A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America (1990) (38)
Empire and nation: the American Revolution in the Atlantic world (2007) (36)
Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War (2006) (35)
THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION (2018) (34)
American Exceptionalism and National Identity (2012) (32)
Liberty, Development, and Union: Visions of the West in the 1780s (1986) (29)
A Declaration of Independence for Diplomatic Historians (1998) (20)
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson (2007) (18)
"To Declare Them a Free and Independant People": Race, Slavery, and National Identity in Jefferson's Thought (1998) (17)
James Davenport and the Great Awakening in New London (1983) (17)
From Blood Vessels to Global Networks of Exchange: The Physiology of Benjamin Rush's Early Republic (2012) (17)
The scholars' Jefferson (1993) (16)
Every Generation Is an "Independant Nation": Colonization, Miscegenation, and the Fate of Jefferson's Children (2000) (14)
Toward a Republican Empire: Interest and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1985) (13)
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (2000) (13)
State-Making in Revolutionary America: Independent Vermont as a Case Study (1981) (13)
Across the continent : Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the making of America (2006) (11)
State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States (2013) (10)
Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson (2010) (10)
American Synecdoche: Thomas Jefferson as Image, Icon, Character, and Self (1998) (9)
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era (2015) (9)
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (2016) (8)
Maryland's Revolution of Government 1689-1692 (1977) (7)
Federal Union, Modern World (1995) (6)
New Lights in New London: A Group Portrait of the Separatists (1980) (6)
State and Citizen (2013) (5)
Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions (2013) (5)
Toward Federalism: Virginia, Congress, and the Western Lands (1977) (5)
Maryland and the Empire, 1773: The Antilon: First Citizen Letters (1974) (5)
Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America (2011) (4)
"We shall all be Americans": Thomas Jefferson and the Indians (1999) (4)
Exclusionary Empire: Federalism, Democracy, and Liberty in the New American Nation (2009) (4)
The Transatlantic Republican: Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions (2009) (3)
The Empire of Liberty (2014) (2)
American culture, 1776-1815 (1991) (2)
Thomas Jefferson’s Christian Nation (2009) (2)
The Empire of Liberty: Land of the Free and Home of the Slave (2014) (2)
From Colony to Territory: Changing Concepts of Statehood in Revolutionary America (1982) (2)
Round Table on Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2009) (2)
Jefferson and American Democracy (2012) (2)
Who are “We The People”? Bruce Ackerman, Thomas Jefferson, and the Problem of Revolutionary Reform (1999) (2)
Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology (1997) (2)
Declaring independence : the origin and influence of America's founding document (2008) (2)
A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (review) (2009) (2)
American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America (2012) (2)
New State Equality: The Ambiguous History of a Constitutional Principle (1988) (2)
The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding@@@The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (1993) (1)
The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region. Midwest History and Culture. (1991) (1)
Reviews of Books:A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America Jon Kukla (2004) (1)
Jefferson and the Virginians: Democracy, Constitutions, and Empire (2018) (1)
American in Paris (2006) (1)
Ratifying, amending, and interpreting the Constitution (1991) (1)
Federalists and republicans (1991) (1)
1. Imperialism and Nationalism in the Early American Republic (2017) (1)
Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding by Andrew Shankman (review) (2019) (1)
Congress and the Confederation (1991) (1)
Essays on liberty and federalism : the shaping of the U.S. Constitution (1989) (1)
Go West Young Men (2003) (1)
Democracy in America and democracy in the world today (2011) (1)
The West: Territory, States, and Confederation (2008) (1)
Democracy, Empire, and the 1816 Indiana Constitution (2015) (1)
State and local politics in the new nation (1991) (1)
A New History of Liberty (2012) (1)
“Fears of War, Fantasies of Peace: British Politics and the Coming of the American Revolution” in Empire and Nation (2005) (0)
The Jeffersons at Shadwell – By Susan Kern (2011) (0)
Robert Lamb. Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xi+217. $99.99. (2016) (0)
The Revolution in American thought (1991) (0)
1. Congress and the States: Conflict Resolution in the New Nation (1984) (0)
Mark G. Schmeller. Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. x+239. $49.95. (2017) (0)
Old World, New World (2010) (0)
Historians and the Bicentennial. (1988) (0)
Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 (review) (2011) (0)
Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826) (2014) (0)
The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870. By Richard D. Brown. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xx, 252 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2261-2.) (1997) (0)
David Mclean. Timothy Pickering and the Age of the American Revolution. (Dissertations in American Biography.) New York: Arno. 1982. Pp. viii, 511 (1984) (0)
Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early Republic, 1783-1830. (1984) (0)
Richard B. Morris. The Forging of the Union, 1781–1789. (New American Nation Series.) New York: Harper and Row. 1987. Pp. xiv, 416. $22.95 (1988) (0)
Washington and Jefferson: (2021) (0)
5. An Unbounded State: New York, Vermont, and the Western Lands (1984) (0)
Onuf's opening essay explaiiis the second claim in greater detail, as he argues that sectionalism was embedded in the federalist debate of the late eighteenth century: "Nationalism in America developed in tandem with opposition to centralized state power; sectionalism (2009) (0)
The Property of the Nation: George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President by Matthew R. Costello (review) (2020) (0)
THE FIRST CRISIS OF THE UNION (2011) (0)
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution (review) (2011) (0)
Adam Dahl. Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. x+260. $45.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2019) (0)
Thomas Jefferson's Nature (Flyer) (2019) (0)
A Passion for Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Natural History (review) (2012) (0)
Matthew Crow. Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+282. $49.99. (2019) (0)
The Nation's Nature: How Continental Presumptions Gave Rise to the United States of America (review) (2012) (0)
Jefferson’s Spaces (2013) (0)
American Society, 1776-1815 (1991) (0)
David Weber and the Borderlands Past, Present, Future: Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts January 8, 2011: Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Committee Panel Honoring David Weber (2011) (0)
The Nation's Nature: How Continental Presumptions Gave Rise to the United States of America. By James D. Drake (Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2011) 416 pp. $39.50 (2012) (0)
A Commercial Republic: America’s Enduring Debate over Democratic Capitalism. By Mike O’Connor (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2014) 287 pp. $34.95 (2015) (0)
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy (2015) (0)
WOOD, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2010) (0)
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times. By Charles Royster. (New York: Knopf, 1999. xii, 622 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-43345-7.) (2001) (0)
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (2001) (0)
The Draper Manuscripts. 123 reels with printed guide and with 11 calendars on microfiche. 35 mm microfilm. (Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985. $7,500.) (1988) (0)
François Furstenberg. In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation. (Penguin History of American Life.) New York: Penguin. 2006. Pp. 335. $27.95 (2007) (0)
Republicalism, Sectionalism and Union: Political development in the early republic (1994) (0)
America and the world : diplomacy, politics, and war (1991) (0)
Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America. By John Howe. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xiv, 281 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-55849-422-7.) (2005) (0)
Federalist Republican: Michael Zuckert’s James Madison (2019) (0)
Index: Volume 32, 2009 (2010) (0)
4. Virginia and the West (1984) (0)
Capitalism and Identity in the Heartland@@@The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region.@@@River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820-1870. (1991) (0)
Chapter 85. Sovereignty (2008) (0)
History, Nature and the American Founding (2019) (0)
Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War (review) (2010) (0)
The Settlers’ Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest. By Bethel Saler. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 392. $45.00.) (2016) (0)
Book Review: The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribed, edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert (1999) (0)
Richard H. Ullman 1934–2014 (2015) (0)
Establishing the new regime : the Washington administration (1991) (0)
EPILOGUE: (2021) (0)
6. The New State of Vermont: Revolution Within a (1984) (0)
The Court Flunks History@@@Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution. (1989) (0)
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution. By Jack P. Greene (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011) 198 pp. $80.00 cloth $21.99 paper (2011) (0)
Gary B. Nash, The Liberty Bell (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010, $14.95). Pp. xiii + 242. isbn 978 0 3001 7142 6. (2012) (0)
Thomas Jefferson's Nature - Ketchum Lecture (2019) (0)
Religion and Trade in New Netherland: Dutch Origins and American Development. By George L. Smith. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii + 266. $12.50. (1974) (0)
The revolution in the states (1991) (0)
A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism (2018) (0)
3. State and Citizen: Settlers Against the Pennsylvania Charter (1984) (0)
Book Review: The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800, by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick (1995) (0)
Reviews of Books:Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850 Jurgen Heideking, James A. Henretta, Peter Becker (2003) (0)
The Declaration of Independence in World History (2008) (0)
A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America. By Thomas M. Allen (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008) 275 pp. $50.95 cloth $24.95 paper (2009) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
A Commercial Republic: America’s Enduring Debate over Democratic Capitalism by Mike O’Connor (review) (2015) (0)
Book Reviews -- the Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (Studies in Modern History) by Doron S. Ben-Atar (1994) (0)
List of Maps (1984) (0)
Book Review of Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865, by Christopher Tomlins (2011) (0)
Essays on Liberty and Federalism: The Shaping of the U.S. Constitution The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, No. 22. (1990) (0)
Thomas Jefferson's Nature - Boise State University Lecture (2019) (0)
Editorial Board (2014) (0)
EPILOGUE:: Imperial Peoples: America, Ireland, and the Making of the Modern World (2021) (0)
Maryland's Revolution of Government 1689–1692 . By Lois Green Carr and David William Jordan. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1974. Pp. xviii, 321. $15.00.) (1977) (0)
Sovereignty and Liberty. Constitutional Discourse in American Culture (1989) (0)
Book Review: The Genius of the People, by Peter S. Onuf (1988) (0)
Benjamin E. Park. American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+248. $49.99. (2019) (0)
The Private Jefferson: Perspectives from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (2016) (0)
9. Making a "Miracle": The Reconstitution of American Politics (1984) (0)
8. Constitutional Crisis (1984) (0)
Pursuits of happiness: the social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culture . By Jack P. Greene. Pp xviii, 284. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. 1988. $35.75 hardback; $14.25 paperback. (1991) (0)
State Politics and Ideological Transformation: Gordon S. Wood's Republican Revolution (1987) (0)
The “Madison Problem” Revisited (2010) (0)
2. From Colony to Territory: Changing Concepts of Statehood (1984) (0)
The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas (review) (2010) (0)
Brent Tarter.The Grandees of Government: The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. Pp. ix+453. $35.00. (2015) (0)
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. By Christopher Hitchens. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. Pp. xiv, 188. $19.95.) (2007) (0)
The Nation-State in a Changing World: Epilogue (2021) (0)
Daniel J. Hulsebosch, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830 , Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 494. $45.00 (ISBN 0-8078-2955-2). (2007) (0)
7. New States and the New Nation: American Territorial Policy in the "Critical Period" (1984) (0)
Democratic Detours (2008) (0)
Antiquarian America: (2021) (0)
gress, Jefferson’s Western Explorations, which places the Lewis and Clark expedition within the context of other river explorations of the time; and Exploring with Lewis and Clark, a facsimile of the journal of Sergeant (2006) (0)
The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. By Thomas P. Slaughter. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vii + 291 pp. $19.95.) (1987) (0)
The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region@@@Community and the Politics of Place (1991) (0)
Patriots, redcoats, and loyalists (1991) (0)
The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President. By Matthew R. Costello (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2019) 316 pp. $45.00 (2020) (0)
REVIEWS (2008) (0)
Letters from the Head and Heart: Writings of Thomas Jefferson (2002) (0)
Comments on Pauline Maier's "State Of The Field" (2005) (0)
The American Revolution in the West by George M. Waller (1977) (0)

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