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"Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the United States in the 1830s, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s imagines how individuals at the time experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, this book follows painters, poets, enslaved individuals, farmers, and artisans through various settings. Some, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nat Turner, Thomas Cole, and Edgar Allan Poe, are well-known; others are not. All are creators of private and grand designs, and makers of the worlds they inhabited. The Forest unfolds in brief stories. Each is an episode revealing a lost world of intricate relations: human beings going their own ways or crossing paths, in a place that is known to history, or is remote and unknown. For Alex Nemerov, the forest is a description of American society, as he writes, "the dense and discontinuous woods of nation, the foliating thoughts of different people, each with their separate life to lead." Nemerov's art history is at its center an experiment in writing, in how to write differently about visual culture. The Forest examines the history of the United States on a human scale, displaying the patterns of life alongside examples of paintings, prints, photographs and objects"--

Art and society --- History --- United States. --- Alexander Jackson Davis. --- Alexander Nemerov. --- Antiquarian. --- Arsenic. --- Ashbel Smith. --- Benjamin Henry Latrobe. --- Book. --- Burial. --- Cahokia. --- Caroline Lee Hentz. --- Chestnut. --- Church bell. --- Claude Lorrain. --- Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone). --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Daguerreotype. --- Delicacy. --- Dickcissel. --- Easel. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Engraving. --- Facsimile. --- Fanny Kemble. --- Fine art. --- Fireplace. --- Forest floor. --- Francis Parkman. --- Germination. --- Great Dismal Swamp. --- Handkerchief. --- Harriet Tubman. --- Helen Jewett. --- Hiram Powers. --- Hudson River. --- Hyde Hall. --- Illustration. --- Indian removal. --- Jacques Maritain. --- James Fenimore Cooper. --- Jane McCrea. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- John Constable. --- John James Audubon. --- John Quidor. --- John Vanderlyn. --- Joslyn Art Museum. --- Karl Bodmer. --- Lam Qua. --- Laura Bridgman. --- Leather. --- Locust tree. --- Lord Byron. --- Louis Daguerre. --- Magnifying glass. --- Meal. --- Monks Mound. --- Nat Turner. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- National Gallery of Art. --- Necromancy. --- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. --- Ojibwe. --- Oxford University Press. --- Philip Hone. --- Photography. --- Phrenology. --- Piasa. --- Poetry. --- Pym (novel). --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Robert Montgomery Bird. --- Salt well. --- Samuel Morse. --- Sequoyah. --- Slavery. --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Statue. --- Sulky. --- The Clocks. --- The Confessions of Nat Turner. --- The Damnation of Theron Ware. --- The Decameron. --- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. --- Thomas Sully. --- Thorvaldsen Museum. --- Thought. --- Tontine. --- Tracery. --- Trail trees. --- V. --- Vegetation. --- Wallpaper. --- Wildness. --- William Maclure. --- William Sidney Mount. --- William Styron. --- Wreath. --- Writing. --- Yale University Art Gallery. --- Young Goodman Brown.

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This volume opens on 13 November 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 3 March 1803, the final day of his second year as president. The central issue of these months is the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, an act that threatens the economic wellbeing of Westerners. Jefferson asks his old friend Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to remind the French government of the strong friendship between the two nations. To disarm the political opposition, the president sends James Monroe, who is respected by the Federalists, to Europe as a special envoy to work with Robert Livingston in negotiating the dispute with France. Jefferson proposes a "bargain" that will result in the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory. In a confidential message to Congress, Jefferson seeks

Jefferson, Thomas, --- Aaron Burr. --- Act of Congress. --- Albert Gallatin. --- Alexander Wolcott. --- American Antiquarian Society. --- American National Biography. --- American Revolution. --- American frontier. --- Arthur St. Clair. --- Battle of Germantown. --- Battle of Tippecanoe. --- Benedict Arnold. --- Benjamin Hawkins. --- Benjamin Henry Latrobe. --- British Agent. --- Captain general. --- Cession. --- Charles Willson Peale. --- Citizens (Spanish political party). --- Citizenship of the United States. --- Commissioner. --- Consideration. --- Continental Congress. --- Daniel Carroll. --- David Meriwether (Kentucky). --- DeWitt Clinton. --- District attorney. --- Dry dock. --- Excellency. --- Federal Union. --- Fort Adams. --- Frederick the Great. --- Frigate. --- General Government. --- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. --- Governor of Kentucky. --- Henry Dearborn. --- Henry Greathead. --- Henry Knox. --- Horatio Gates. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Indiana Territory. --- Intendant. --- Invoice. --- Jacob Crowninshield. --- James Garrard. --- James Lovell (Continental Congress). --- Jay Treaty. --- John Bartram. --- John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General). --- John Drayton. --- Joseph Dennie. --- Joseph Priestley. --- Law of the United States. --- Legislature. --- Marquis de Condorcet. --- Mary Jefferson Eppes. --- Meriwether Lewis. --- Monsieur. --- Naturalization Law of 1802. --- Naturalization. --- Newspaper. --- North Carolina. --- North West Company. --- Oliver Phelps. --- Oliver Wolcott. --- Patent. --- Payment. --- Pennsylvania Constitution. --- Petitioner. --- Presidency of George Washington. --- President of the United States. --- Proclamation. --- Publication. --- Rembrandt Peale. --- Republican faction (Spanish Civil War). --- Republicanism. --- Salutation. --- Secretary at War. --- Seneca people. --- Statute. --- Statutes at Large. --- The Columbian Orator. --- The History of England (Hume). --- The Papers of James Madison. --- Thomas Hobbes Scott. --- Thomas Jefferson Randolph. --- Thomas Jefferson. --- Thomas Paine. --- Thomas Sumter. --- Thomas Truxtun. --- Timothy Pickering. --- Tories (British political party). --- Travels (book). --- Treaty. --- United States Department of State. --- United States Revenue Cutter Service. --- Whigs (British political party). --- William Conner. --- William Wirt (Attorney General).

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A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas JeffersonCongress adjourns early in March, and Jefferson goes home to Monticello for a month. After his return to Washington, he corresponds with territorial governors concerning appointments to legislative councils. He peruses information about Native American tribes, Spanish and French colonial settlements, and geography of Louisiana Territory. He seeks the consent of Spanish authorities to a U.S. exploration along the Red River while asserting privately that Spain "has met our advances with jealousy, secret malice, and ill faith." A new law extends civil authority over foreign warships in U.S. harbors, and he considers using it also to constrain privateers. Federalist opponents bring up "antient slanders" to question his past private and official actions. His personal finances are increasingly reliant on bank loans. He starts a search for a new farm manager at Monticello. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark write from Fort Mandan in April before setting out up the Missouri River. Jefferson will not receive their reports until mid-July. In the Mediterranean, William Eaton coordinates the capture of the port of Derna and Tobias Lear negotiates terms of peace with Pasha Yusuf Qaramanli to end the conflict with Tripoli. News of those events will not reach the United States until September

Presidents --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- United States --- Politics and government --- Aaron Burr. --- Albert Gallatin. --- American National Biography. --- Army of the West (1846). --- Bauble. --- Benjamin Henry Latrobe. --- Benjamin Lincoln. --- Charles Buxton. --- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. --- Classical liberalism. --- Consideration. --- Corinthian order. --- DeWitt Clinton. --- District attorney. --- Edward Preble. --- Electorate of Saxony. --- Elias Boudinot (Cherokee). --- Esquire. --- Excellency. --- Federal government of the United States. --- Franklin Bowditch Dexter. --- Frigate. --- General Washington Johnston. --- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. --- Glossary. --- Government Paper. --- Gu?a. --- Hegemony. --- Henry Dearborn. --- Hinglish. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Ideology. --- Isaac Shelby. --- James Garrard. --- John Dewey. --- John H. Wheeler. --- John Hemings. --- John Rawls. --- John Wayles Eppes. --- Jérôme Bonaparte. --- Legatee. --- Letter of introduction. --- Library of Congress. --- Louisiana Territory. --- Martha Jefferson Randolph. --- Martha Washington. --- Massachusetts Historical Society. --- Mergenthaler Linotype Company. --- Meriwether Lewis. --- Monsieur. --- Mr. --- National Archives and Records Administration. --- Native Americans in the United States. --- Navy. --- Newspaper. --- North America. --- Notes on the State of Virginia. --- Oliver Evans. --- Osage Nation. --- Pandava. --- Pennsylvania. --- Peter Alston. --- Petitioner. --- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours. --- Posse Comitatus (organization). --- Power of attorney. --- Prakrit. --- President of the United States. --- Presidential portrait (United States). --- Pretext. --- Princeton University Press. --- Princeton University. --- Publication. --- Quantity. --- Red River Expedition (1806). --- Rembrandt Peale. --- Republicanism. --- Richard Somers. --- Routledge. --- Salutation. --- Secretary at War. --- State court (United States). --- Statutes at Large. --- The New York Times Company. --- Thomas Hinds. --- Thomas Rodney. --- Title page. --- Tobias Mayer. --- Tories (British political party). --- Tribe (Native American). --- United States Revenue Cutter Service. --- United States circuit court. --- United States district court. --- University of North Carolina. --- Walter Lippmann. --- William Eaton (soldier). --- William Eustis. --- William Roscoe. --- William Wordsworth. --- Yale College.