Here at the Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, we spend most of our days reading Jefferson’s two-hundred-year-old mail. Jefferson wrote approximately 19,000 letters during his lifetime, so you can imagine how many more letters he also received! And that means we have a lot of different handwriting to navigate.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 »