Jan Ellen Lewis

Jan Lewis died on August 28, 2018. Lewis was a dean and professor at Rutgers University–Newark, where she taught American history since 1977. Among her publications were The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia (1983); Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (1999); and The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race & the New Republic (2002). She coedited An Emotional History of the United States (1998); served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of Southern History, and Virginia History; and reviewed fiction, history, women’s studies, and contemporary politics for Phi Beta Kappa’s Key Reporter. She also served as chair of the New Jersey Historical Commission and the American Historical Association’s Committee on Women Historians and was a member of the advisory board of the International Center for Jefferson Studies.