Three first-year students recently took the Thomas Jefferson Foundation up on its offer. Here are their stories.
The initiative outlines how Monticello will work toward its goals of creating space for learning, history, and connection.
Moving boxes have started accumulating in the blue colonial home that stands in a grove of trees near Monticello. The charming dwelling has been home to Dan Jordan and his wife, Lou, since 1985, when ...
As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...
When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.
Thursday, July 5, 2018 -- A new exhibit at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home hear Charlottesville, Va., underscores the fact that the Jefferson estate was an epicenter of racial mixing ...
History buffs will love discovering this fairytale town, tucked in the mountains, that showcases unique hunting clubs and ...
Plenty of information is available about slavery at the historical homes of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, but not so much about their monumental legacies as Founding Fathers, according to a ...
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, building on the legacy of the UVA founder’s legendary dinner parties, has a series of Feast of Reason events on the schedule for the summer season. “Feasts of Reason ...
Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The docent at Monticello explained that, as a young slave, Sally Hemings was sent to Paris, where she served as a maid for Thomas Jefferson’s daughter. And there, our third ...