ICJS Programs
ICJS Programs
Some ICJS programs are offered in a hybrid format, with in-person and online attendance opportunities. We look forward to welcoming you to our programs! Virtual programs at the ICJS are free, unless specified otherwise. In-person programs, while also free unless specified otherwise, may require advanced registration. See individual event pages for details.
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2026 Calendar of Events
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Pursuits of Knowledge: Molly Beer on “For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution”
A conversation with Molly Beer to discuss her book, “For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution” -
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Pursuits of Knowledge: Andrew Burstein on “Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History”
A conversation with Andrew Burstein to discuss his book, “Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History.” -
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Pursuits of Knowledge: Beverly Gage on “This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History”
Join us in conversation with Beverly Gage to discuss her book, “This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History.” -
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Pursuits of Knowledge: James Traub on “The Cradle of Citizenship”
Join us in conversation with James Traub to discuss his book, “The Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy,” a devastating critique of our failure to prepare students for citizenship—and a roadmap to a better way.
Ongoing Programs
DAACS Conversations
Join DAACS staff and DAACS collaborating scholars for a diverse range of conversations on ground-breaking new archaeological research in the American South and Caribbean. Multiple dates.
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2025
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Civil Rights
A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison and the Forging of a Friendship
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
"There is not a man of them, but would leave us, if they believe'd they could make their escape."
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
Black Poets and the Patriots who Mocked them in Jefferson's America
Jefferson & Adams: A Stage Play
Traitor-wife: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America
Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique
Thomas Jefferson and the Dream of an American Prime Meridian
Making Revolution from the Ground Up: Local Committees and the Popular Politics of American Independence
Mac & Cheese and the Pursuit of Happiness: Thomas Jefferson and the Invention of an American Culinary Tradition
Silent America: Indentured Servitude, White Poverty, and Origins of the United States
On Women History Makers
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Ursula Granger: An American Founding Storyteller and Her Stories
2024
"A Contest for Dominion on the Shores of the Pacific"
"a pinching, miserly system": Managing Plantation Risk in Post Revolutionary Virginia
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Views of Jeffersonian America, 1795-1820: The Digital Edition
Bitter Vines: Wine and Slavery in the United States
Black Winemaking at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Colonial and Transcultural Agriculture in Jefferson's America
Intellectual Histories of the American Revolution - Call for Papers
Jefferson's Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt
Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic
Revolutionary Women: A Symposium
South Carolina pro-French Republicans, Jefferson, and the French Revolution, 1789-1801
The 2024 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture - Pursuing Happiness in the Revolutionary Atlantic
The Many Modes of Powerful Presidential Persuasion
This is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations
Uncovering, Exploring and Interrogating the Philosophy of Science of Thomas Jefferson
War Stories: Remembering the Revolution
2023
A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage
An Empire of Love: Revisiting the American Confederation, 1776-1789
For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry's Final Political Battle
Freedom!: Ideal and Practice in the Reform Works of Thomas Jefferson and Christian Reventlow
Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington's Mount Vernon
Jefferson and Kosciuszko: Two Different Friends
Jefferson, Territorial Expansion, and the Pursuit of Science in the American Southwest (1776-1826)
Jefferson, Art, Architecture, and Native Culture
Jefferson's Book and Logan's Tree: Historical Media and Indigenous Memory
Jefferson's President's House Dinner List 1804-1809
Luck's Republic: Lotteries, Class, and Finance in Early America
Material Cultures of Inequality: Slavery and Freedom in French Guiana
Materializing Emancipation: Exploring Material Culture Change in the Era of Freedom
Nicolas Trist's Vindication of Thomas Jefferson from the Charge of Supporting Nullification
Revolutionary Loyalism: Enslavement and Liberation
Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
Ships of Reason: The Enlightenment of Stephen Girard and the Mariners Who Built His Merchant Empire
The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World
The Age of Restoration and American History: Reframing the Colonial in the Colonial Revival
The Anglicisation and De-Anglicisation of Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
"The Antidotes of Truth:" The First Editions of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison’s Papers
The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith: Crafting Genius and Transatlantic Fame in the Romantic Era
The Effect of the Seven Years War on Colonial Militias in Rio De Janeiro and Virginia
The Fluidity of Allegiance in Revolutionary Vermont
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
The Second Annual Leonard J. Sadosky Memorial Lecture with Alyssa Penick - American Reformation
The Transformation of the Slave Trade in Virginia, 1770-1830
Thomas Jefferson and Jewish America: A Preliminary Inquiry
Thomas Jefferson: Fashion is Political, Politics are Fashionable
Virginia Festival of the Book: American Inheritance
2022
American Academy of Diplomacy 2022 Annual Conference: Diplomacy and the Environment
Art, Technology, and Aesthetics within Landscapes of Enslavement in the Colonial South, 1740-1810
Enslaved Women and the Duality of Feeding in Monticello and the US South
Fighting Words in the American Revolution, 1763-87
From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic
Haunted Ontologies: Thinking with Ghosts At Monticello
Jefferson's "Country": Notes on the State of Virginia and the Invention of America
The Abolition of the Slave Trade to the United States
The American Revolution and the Ancient World
The Last King of America Livestream
The Maria Hadfield Cosway Exhibit at the Fondazione Maria Cosway Lodi
The Sage of Monticello and the Sweet Swan of Avon: Jefferson and Shakespeare, Side by Side
The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson
"Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the Lord of Misrule"
Virginia Festival of the Book: The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind
What the Sub-Floor Pit Holds: Musical Instruments as a Missing Artifact in the Archaeological Record
2021
2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture - Why Do We Teach the History of the American Revolution?
Brick Palladian Architecture: Jefferson’s Transformation of Stone to Clay
Church, State, and Institutional Slaveholding in Early National Virginia
Cultivating Conviviality: Alcohol, Jeffersonian Sociability, and Monticello's Object Scapes
Dolley Madison: a Quaker by Birth and a Slave Owner by Choice
Fiske and Marie Kimball: Shaping Our Experience of Buildings and Objects
"Forever Retained as a National Shrine": Remembering Slavery at a Public Monticello
Gunpowder Joe: Joseph Priestley and the Rhetoric of Dissent
Haitian Intellectual History in the Age of Revolutions
Jefferson's Proclamation: Challenging Royal Land Rights in Revolutionary America, 1763-1776
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court
The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution
The Most French of All the American Presidents
The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World
The Strange Genius of Mr O: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity
The War Executives: Debating and Creating Executive Power During the American Revolutionary War
Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a Party: One Hundred and Fifty Libeling, Slandering, Lawyers
Thomas Jefferson's Quiet Campaign Against the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1801- 1809
Transatlantic Slavery Symposium
“To Make a Christian of Andrew Jackson”: Piety, Power, and Politics in the Election of 1824
Violence and Peace in Virginia Legal Culture
2020
Annual Conference With the American Academy of Diplomacy: Does Europe Still Matter To America?
Decoding the Founding: Truths, Lies, and Myths
Humboldt and Jefferson: Transatlantic Exchange of Knowledge and Ideas
New Frontiers in Early American History
Sally Hemings: Forced Itinerancy as a Site of Possibility?
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
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