Monticello is a nonprofit that operates independently with the support of visitors like you. We remain open during the government shutdown. For details, check our Hours of Operation. We look forward to seeing you.
MARCH WEEKENDS - Hear stories from the American Revolution through the modern era about the women - both enslaved and free - who helped shape the history of early America, as well as the crucial role of women in the preservation of Monticello. Tickets for spring coming soon.
In celebration of Women's History Month, join us in conversation on March 5 with Molly Beer, discussing her new book, For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution. Tickets available in November.
VIDEO - A century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama, Sarah Mayrant Fossett successfully integrated the Cincinnati streetcar system.
PODCAST - Follow the journey of Elizabeth House Trist, whose journal is the earliest known record of a Mississippi River expedition by a woman.
PODCAST - Trained at the President's House in Washingtion, D.C., enslaved chef Edith Fossett cooked for Jefferson for over two decades and oversaw the creation of the food for which Monticello became famous.
PODCAST - We take a look at the myths and realities of the life of this famous Native American woman who played an unlikely but critical role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
PODCAST - Madame de Tessé, the aunt of the Marquis de Lafayette, introduced Thomas Jefferson to French salon society and the two shared an interest in Enlightenment thought, literature, architecture, and, in particular, horticulture and gardening.
The Life of Nancy Hemings
Mary Hemings Bell
Ursula Granger, Cooking on the Hearth
Virginia Trist Randolph's English Guitar
In this pivotal work, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed weaves together stories of the Hemings family, including Elizabeth Hemings, the family's matriarch at Monticello, Sally Hemings, and her siblings and children.
During her nine-month stay in London, Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge kept a diary that reveals the uncommon education of her youth, when she lived and studied at Monticello with her grandfather, Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Ann Lucas Birle and Lisa A. Francavilla.
