Douglass Adair - Legacy and Honors

Legacy and Honors

• In 1974, his friends prepared a volume collecting his essays, Fame and the Founding Fathers, which W. W. Norton published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, with which Adair had been associated for so long. A trio of distinguished specialists in intellectual history framed the essays collected in that volume -- the volume's editor, the historian Trevor Colbourn, wrote the introduction; Caroline Robbins, a leading historian of ideas, contributed a warm and illuminating personal memoir of her friendship and intellectual collaboration with Adair; and Robert Shalhope presented a thoughtful and nuanced essay situating Adair in the historiography of the Revolution and the early Republic, with special reference to republicanism and what historians already had come to call the "republican synthesis." This volume was reprinted in 1998 by Liberty Fund and remains in print today.
• In 2000, his dissertation was finally published as The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: Republicanism, the Class Struggle, and the Virtuous Farmer, edited by Mark E. Yellin with a foreword by Joyce O. Appleby.