Kevin Gutzman on the Jeffersonians, State’s Rights and “Virginia Supremacy”, and Westward Expansion
In This Episode:
- Kevin Gutzman, professor of History at Western Connecticut State University, joins the podcast to discuss the presidencies of Democratic-Republican presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe
- how the states and sectionalism played an important role in the Early Republic, and why Jefferson and his successors emphasized the importance of state’s rights and decentralized power
- the key events during the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe that kick off Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny
Texts Mentioned:
- The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe by Kevin Gutzman
- James Madison and the Making of America by Kevin Gutzman
- First Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 February, 1791
- “Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank” by Alexander Hamilton
- “A Summary View of the Rights of British America” pamphlet by Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison’s Notes of the Constitutional Convention from June 18, 1787
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Livingston, 18 April, 1802
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 9 August, 1803
- Proposed Amendment to the Constitution Regarding Louisiana by James Madison
- Trans-Continental Treaty of 1819
- Monroe Doctrine
- Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder
- Diary of John Quincy Adams
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