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“.... knowledge is power, ... knowledge is safety, ... knowledge is happiness”
-Thomas Jefferson to George Ticknor, 1817
Join us this spring for our ongoing "Pursuits of Knowledge” series, featuring programs that explore the past and present to help us think about our modern world. These eclectic offerings include discussions on recent publications, a theatric performance, and a dynamic conversation about the important role that museums play in sharing women’s history. Learn more about each event below.
Food and beverages, including award-winning Jefferson Vineyards wine, will be available for purchase.
THIS JUNE: CIVIC SEASON POP-UP PURSUIT!
In celebration of Civic Season at Monticello, join us for a conversation with bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands on his book, Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics, a revelatory history on the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.
To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, Brands crafts a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.
About the Author

H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes on American history and politics, with books including Founding Partisans, Our First Civil War, and The Zealot and the Emancipator.
Several of his books have been bestsellers; two, Traitor to His Class and The First American, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
Fall Pursuits of Knowledge
Mark your calendars; tickets are coming soon!
September 17: Jill Lepore on We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
October 22: Rick Atkinson on The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
November 11: Dylan Penningroth on Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Civil Rights
December 10: Louis Masur on A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison and the Forging of A Friendship