When Thomas Jefferson was seventy-four years old and had been retired from Washington for seven years, he mused in a letter to William Short on 5 May 1816 that “when the world imagines I have nothing to do, I am in a state of as heavy drudgery as any office of my life ever subjected me to. from sunrise till noon I am chained to the writing table.”more »
The date "April 2" really threw me for a loop when I visited Monticello for the first time in the sixth grade. I was pretty certain I shared my April 13 birthday with TJ, and sure enough!more »
Andrea Gray– Editorial Assistant, Monticello Staff
This would have been helpful when writing papers in grad school.more »
Without this machine our jobs at the Jefferson Papers would end a lot sooner...more »
I think it's funny that TJ didn't have a middle name, but lots of people after him were given the middle name Jefferson.more »
I hope that cheese came with a lot of crackers.more »
This clip isn't enough, you have to go see the full thing. I could watch it over and over. (And have.)more »
The date "April 2" really threw me for a loop when I visited Monticello for the first time in the sixth grade. I was pretty certain I shared my April 13 birthday with TJ, and sure enough!more »
Some day I want a campeachy chair.more »
What a great quirky story! Well, not great for the bears.more »
This is my favorite portrait of TJ. I love that background color.more »