Peter S. Onuf

A native New Englander, Onuf graduated from Johns Hopkins University, where he worked with eminent early American historian Jack P. Greene. He taught at Columbia University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Southern Methodist University. In 2008, he held the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History chair at the University of Oxford.^[3]

Onuf also acted as a cohost for the radio show BackStory with the American History Guys.^[4] In 2014, he taught a free online University of Virginia course on Thomas Jefferson.^[5]

• ed. (with Robert M. S. McDonald). Revolutionary Prophecies: The Founders and America's Future. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. ISBN 9780813944494
• (with Annette Gordon-Reed) "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, Liveright, 2016. ISBN 9780871404428
• The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. ISBN 9780813926117
• (with Nicholas G. Onuf). Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. ISBN 9780813925028
• ed. (with James Horn and Jan Ellen Lewis). The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. ISBN 9780813921419
• Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. ISBN 9780813920900
• (with Leonard Sadosky) Jeffersonian America. Oxford: Basil Blackwell's, 2001. ISBN 9781557869234
• ed. (with Jan Ellen Lewis). Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. University Press of Virginia, 1999. ISBN 9780813919485
• (with Edward L. Ayers, Patricia N. Limerick, and Stephen Nissenbaum). All Over the Map: Rethinking Region and Nation in the United States. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• ed. Jeffersonian Legacies. University Press of Virginia, 1993. ISBN 9780813914633
• (with Nicholas G. Onuf), Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolution, 1776–1814. Madison House, 1993.
• Patriots, redcoats, and loyalists New York : Garland, 1991. ISBN 9780815304371
• (with Cathy D. Matson), A Union of Interests: Politics and Economics in Revolutionary America, University Press of Kansas. 1990.
• (with Andrew R. L. Cayton), The Midwest and the Nation. Indiana University Press, 1990.
• Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance. Indiana University Press, 1987.
• Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775–1787. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.^[1]