Andrew Burstein

Andrew Burstein
Charles Phelps Manship Professor

220 Himes Hall
578-4451
aburstein@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:
Age of Jefferson and Hamilton; Survey of American History to 1865; Graduate Readings/Research Seminar on Jeffersonian Democracy; Graduate Readings Seminar, America to 1800

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Coauthoring a book, Madison and Jefferson, with Nancy Isenberg

INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:
American political, cultural, or intellectual history, 1750-1836

BRIEF VITA

Education:
B.A., Oriental Studies, Columbia University, 1974; M.A., Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1975; Ph.D., American History, University of Virginia, 1994

Notable Articles:
"Thomas Jefferson's Sexual Imagination," History Compass (September 2005)

"The Political Character of Sympathy," Journal of the Early Republic (Winter 2001)

“Jefferson's Rationalizations," William and Mary Quarterly (January 2000)

Books:

The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving (Basic Books, 2007)

Jefferson’s Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello (Basic Books, 2005)

The Passions of Andrew Jackson (Knopf, 2003)

Mortal Remains: Death in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). Co-edited with Nancy Isenberg.

Letters from the Head and Heart: Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Monticello Monographs/University of North Carolina Press, 2002)

America’s Jubilee (Knopf, 2001)

Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America’s Romantic Self-Image (Hill & Wang, 1999)

The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist (University Press of Virginia, 1995)