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News Releases, 2010-2014

2014

  • Monticello Holds FREE Holiday Open House on Sunday, November 30
  • Monticello Scholar Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy Wins 2014 George Washington Book Prize
  • David Rubenstein to be featured July 4 speaker at Monticello
  • Monticello Scholars and Scholars of the Arab World to Host Jefferson Conference in Rabat, Morocco
  • Monticello Archaeologists Awarded NEH Grant to Share Research Online
  • 2014 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals Will Go to Toyo Ito, Kenneth Feinberg, James H. Webb, Jr.
  • Monticello Scholar Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy: Finalist for Prestigious Book Awards
  • Monticello Creates Dynamic Website to Promote Digital Learning of History
  • The University of Virginia and Monticello Launch Thomas Jefferson MOOC on Presidents' Day; Featuring Expert Peter Onuf
  • Bowman Appointed to White House Preservation Committee
  • Monticello Kicks Off the Year with Programs for Local Public School Students
  • New this Year at the Heritage Harvest Festival: Monticello Announces Programs on the Art of Living and Keynote Speaker from The French Laundry

2013

  • Monticello Lowers Admission to $5 for December 14 and 15, to Celebrate Anniversary as UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • New Website for the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
  • Thomas Jefferson Inspires Design in 2013
  • NEW THIS YEAR: Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello features national music acts and new family activities
  • Seed Saving on a Global Scale: Cary Fowler to keynote seventh annual Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello
  • 80 people from 38 countries to become citizens at Monticello on July 4
  • Dave Matthews to be featured July 4 speaker at Monticello
  • Thomas Jefferson Foundation receives donation of Filippo Mazzei Archive from internationally-known author, Sister Margherita Marchione, M.P.F
  • Monticello to Receive $10 Million Gift for Restoration Efforts
  • Monticello adds new furnished room to Behind-the-Scenes Tour
  • Thomas Jefferson Foundation welcomes Jon Meacham to Board of Trustees
  • Wine Festival at Monticello 2013
  • 2013 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals To Be Awarded to Laurie Olin, Robert Mueller and Wendy Kopp
  • Thomas Jefferson Foundation welcomes new trustees Glynn D. Key and Gilbert P. Schafer, III
  • Monticello, Montpelier, and CACVB Re-launch Presidents Passport with Sweepstakes
  • King elected chairman of Thomas Jefferson Foundation Board
  • Experience the magic of the holiday season at the home of Thomas Jefferson

2012

  • Handmade for the Holidays - Make memories at Monticello this holiday season!
  • Telling the History of Slavery: Scholarship, Museum Interpretation, and the Public
  • Monticello Lowers Prices to $5 for 5 days in December to Celebrate 25th Anniversary as UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Thomas Jefferson Foundation Installs Marioff HI-FOG® Water Mist Fire Suppression System to Protect Monticello for Future Generations
  • J.F. Bryan, Pam Reynolds, J.B. Birdsall elected to Thomas Jexfferson Foundation board
  • Monticello archaeologists make exciting discovery of Jefferson-era artifacts, slave homes, and other dwellings on farm near Monticello
  • National book launch for "A Rich Spot of Earth" at Monticello to be held during Historic Garden Week in Virginia
  • Revolutionary chef Alice Waters to visit Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, America's most famously epicurean President
  • Olympic champion Nadia Comăneci to be featured July 4 speaker at Monticello
  • 2012 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals To Be Awarded to Rafael Moneo, George Mitchell and Jessica Tuchman Mathews
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning, Bestselling Author Jon Meacham Launches New Book—Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" at Monticello

2011

  • American and Russian Scholars to Discuss Thomas Jefferson and Tsar Alexander I at Moscow Conference
  • Monticello and National Museum of African American History and Culture to Explore Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello
  • Monticello Awarded $500,000 Grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation
  • Charlottesville/Albemarle chosen as site for Wine Bloggers Conference
  • First public conference at Montalto to discuss diplomacy and education
  • Monticello's Main Street comes to life
  • Thomas Jefferson Foundation receives a gift of history from Martha Jefferson Hospital
  • Muhtar Kent to be featured speaker at Monticello's July 4 Ceremony
  • Monticello Director of Gardens and Grounds receives national award
  • Monticello hosts Historic Garden Week in Virginia celebration to mark the restoration of winding walk flower border and oval beds
  • TJF medalist Peterson to speak at Monticello's April 13 event
  • 2011 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals To Be Awarded to Maya Lin, Cynthia Kinser and Pete Peterson
  • Monticello Scholars Identify 74 of Thomas Jefferson's Books at Washington University in St. Louis Library
  • Travel Diary of Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter published this December

2010

  • Experience the magic of the holiday season at the home of Thomas Jefferson
  • Thomas Jefferson Foundation announces first holiday 5K
  • Monticello offers visitors free archaeology walking tours and opportunity to view archaeological artifacts this weekend
  • Monticello & Virginia Wine Board Sponsor 2010 Governor's Cup for White Wine
  • News Releases
    • Monticello to Launch “Feast of Reason” Series
    • Monticello Announces Acclaimed Filmmaker Ken Burns as Keynote Speaker at Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony
    • Monticello Announces New Tour, Opening May 23: Founding Friends, Founding Foes
    • New Lineup for 2025 Civic Season
    • 2025 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
    • Monticello Announces New Board Members and Leadership
    • Monticello Welcomes New Senior Leadership
    • Monticello Archaeologists Awarded Grants to Begin Largest Study of Colonoware Ever Conducted
    • Misty Copeland as Keynote Speaker at Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony
    • 2024 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
    • Monticello Announces New Board Members
    • Castle Hill Cider Releases Orchard Select Cider
    • Monticello Announces New President, Historian Jane Kamensky
    • Mellon Foundation Awards $3.5 Million to Getting Word African American Oral History Project
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