Livestream June 12
Join us for a Q&A with Monticello and Made By Us representatives as we get ready for Civic Season. We’ll provide a sneak peek of upcoming Civic Season events and discuss how you can engage in our collective story!
What is the Civic Season?
From our newest federal holiday, Juneteenth, to our oldest, the 4th of July, Civic Season is a time to explore your story and how it connects to U.S. history through events, activities, and resources from credible sources.
Civic Season is the flagship program from Made By Us, a network of hundreds of museums, historic sites, libraries and archives unleashing access to history for younger generations who have the most at stake.
Civic Season Events
July Fourth Naturalization Ceremony
Every July 4, Monticello hosts an official naturalization ceremony on the West Lawn where dozens of immigrants from around the world become U.S. citizens. This year's keynote speaker is ballerina, author, and philanthropist Misty Copeland. Join us in person or tune in to the livestream!
What is Civic Season?
Learn more about the origins of Civic Season
Explore Resources
Feast of Reason
Conversations about society, politics, and community shape life in the United States. Thomas Jefferson understood this and hosted dinners known for stunning food and sparking conversation. Host your own with our Feast of Reason dinner game!
The Art of Citizenship
We’ve gathered stories in the form of videos, biographies, podcasts, and more to create a hub of civics content. This material is woven together to bring history forward by examining the debates -- over education, religion, equality, immigration, voting, partisanship, the press, wealth, debt, and compromises -- that began in 1776 and continue to the modern day.
The Declaration of Independence Around the World
How have the words and ideas in the Declaration of Independence impacted human rights around the world?
Previous Livestreams
Explore our archive of livestreams that include topics such as elections, political figures, and early American history.
In the Hands of the People
A New York Times best-selling book by Jon Meacham with selections from Jefferson’s writing on the covenant between a government and its citizens and comments by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Frederick Douglass, Carl Sagan, and other American presidents.