Douglas L Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas L Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Knox College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
This edition of the Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates surpasses all previous editions and establishes the standard text for the foreseeable future. Tens of thousands of citizens attended the debates held in seven communities across Illinois between August 21 and October 15, 1858. Since the candidates almost always spoke extemporaneously, their remarks would not have assumed their canonical status in American political rhetoric if two Chicag…
A Reporter's Lincoln
Herndon's Informants
Lincoln before Washington
Honor's Voice
Honor's Voice
Journal Article Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. By Douglas L. Wilson. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xi, 383 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-40788-X.) Get access Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567470 Published: 01 June 1999
Thomas Jefferson's Library and the French Connection
Douglas L. Wilson, Thomas Jefferson's Library and the French Connection, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, Special Issue: Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1993: An Anniversary Collection (Summer, 1993), pp. 669-685
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book
Jefferson vs. Hume
O_ N March 2, 764, Thomas Jefferson, then a young law student in Williamsburg, Virginia, purchased an edition in six large quarto volumes of David Hume's History of England, a work he read through with great eagerness admiration. I remember well the enthusiasm with which devoured it when young, he wrote nearly fifty years later, and the length of time, the research reflection which were necessary to eradicate the it had instilled into my mind.' T…
Thomas Jefferson's Early Notebooks
JEFFERSON is an old, old subject, Merrill Peterson wrote in i960, the quest for the historical Jefferson, under the formal discipline of scholarly inquiry, is young.' Despite all that has been learned about Thomas Jefferson in the intervening years, important questions about the man and his work remain unresolved, particularly regarding his early life, for which the massive documentary record of the later years is lacking. most revealing document…
Sowerby Revisited
N July I942 the Library of Congress appointed a bibliographer to prepare a descriptive list of the books that had been sold to the Congress of the United States by Thomas Jefferson in i8I5, a collection that formed the basis of what was to become a great national library. The work was to be completed and printed in time for the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth, some nine months later. But what was begun as a modest tribute finally emerged s…
The American agricola
Research Article| July 01 1981 The American agricola: Jefferson's Agrarianism and the Classical Tradition Douglas L. Wilson Douglas L. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1981) 80 (3): 339–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-80-3-339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Douglas L. Wilson; The American agricola: Jefferson's Agrari…
The Genteel Tradition
Santayana's Metanoia
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism
Thomas Jefferson's Early Notebooks
JEFFERSON is an old, old subject, Merrill Peterson wrote in i960, the quest for the historical Jefferson, under the formal discipline of scholarly inquiry, is young.' Despite all that has been learned about Thomas Jefferson in the intervening years, important questions about the man and his work remain unresolved, particularly regarding his early life, for which the massive documentary record of the later years is lacking. most revealing document…
The American agricola
Research Article| July 01 1981 The American agricola: Jefferson's Agrarianism and the Classical Tradition Douglas L. Wilson Douglas L. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1981) 80 (3): 339–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-80-3-339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Douglas L. Wilson; The American agricola: Jefferson's Agrari…
Herndon's Informants
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Jefferson vs. Hume
O_ N March 2, 764, Thomas Jefferson, then a young law student in Williamsburg, Virginia, purchased an edition in six large quarto volumes of David Hume's History of England, a work he read through with great eagerness admiration. I remember well the enthusiasm with which devoured it when young, he wrote nearly fifty years later, and the length of time, the research reflection which were necessary to eradicate the it had instilled into my mind.' T…
Santayana's Metanoia
The Genteel Tradition
The American agricola
Research Article| July 01 1981 The American agricola: Jefferson's Agrarianism and the Classical Tradition Douglas L. Wilson Douglas L. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1981) 80 (3): 339–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-80-3-339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Douglas L. Wilson; The American agricola: Jefferson's Agrari…
Sowerby Revisited
N July I942 the Library of Congress appointed a bibliographer to prepare a descriptive list of the books that had been sold to the Congress of the United States by Thomas Jefferson in i8I5, a collection that formed the basis of what was to become a great national library. The work was to be completed and printed in time for the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth, some nine months later. But what was begun as a modest tribute finally emerged s…
Thomas Jefferson's Early Notebooks
JEFFERSON is an old, old subject, Merrill Peterson wrote in i960, the quest for the historical Jefferson, under the formal discipline of scholarly inquiry, is young.' Despite all that has been learned about Thomas Jefferson in the intervening years, important questions about the man and his work remain unresolved, particularly regarding his early life, for which the massive documentary record of the later years is lacking. most revealing document…
Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book
Jefferson vs. Hume
O_ N March 2, 764, Thomas Jefferson, then a young law student in Williamsburg, Virginia, purchased an edition in six large quarto volumes of David Hume's History of England, a work he read through with great eagerness admiration. I remember well the enthusiasm with which devoured it when young, he wrote nearly fifty years later, and the length of time, the research reflection which were necessary to eradicate the it had instilled into my mind.' T…
Thomas Jefferson's Library
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book
Thomas Jefferson's Library and the French Connection
Douglas L. Wilson, Thomas Jefferson's Library and the French Connection, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, Special Issue: Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1993: An Anniversary Collection (Summer, 1993), pp. 669-685
Herndon's Informants
Lincoln before Washington
Honor's Voice
Honor's Voice
Journal Article Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. By Douglas L. Wilson. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xi, 383 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-40788-X.) Get access Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567470 Published: 01 June 1999
A Reporter's Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
This edition of the Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates surpasses all previous editions and establishes the standard text for the foreseeable future. Tens of thousands of citizens attended the debates held in seven communities across Illinois between August 21 and October 15, 1858. Since the candidates almost always spoke extemporaneously, their remarks would not have assumed their canonical status in American political rhetoric if two Chicag…
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism
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