News Releases, 2010-2024
News Releases, 2010-2024
2024
- Monticello Welcomes New Senior Leadership
- Monticello Announces Misty Copeland as Keynote Speaker at Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony
- Monticello Archaeologists Awarded Grants to Begin Largest Study of Colonoware Ever Conducted
- Monticello to Launch Revolutionary Women at Monticello Tour in March
- UVA, Monticello Announce Recipients of 2024 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
- Monticello Announces New Board Members
2022-2023
- Monticello Announces New President, Historian Jane Kamensky
- Monticello Awarded $3.5 Million Mellon Foundation Grant for Getting Word African American Oral History Project Expansion, Digital Archive
- Castle Hill's Orchard Select Cider
- UVA, Monticello Announce Recipients of 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
- Leslie Greene Bowman to Depart Monticello
- UVA, Monticello Announce Recipients of 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
- UVA, Monticello Announce Recipient of 2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture
- OpEd: The Enduring Legacy of Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
2020
- UVA, Monticello Announce Recipients of 2020 Thomas Jefferson
- Monticello Reopens to Visitors on June 13
- Monticello Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Prepare for America’s 250th Anniversary
2019
- Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon-Reed and technology entrepreneur Dengel to join Monticello’s Board of Trustees
- UVA, Monticello Announce Recipients of 2019 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
- Gold Star Parent Khizr Khan to Speak at Monticello’s Independence Day Celebration
2018
- Thomas Jefferson Foundation Announces New Board Leadership
- Monticello debuts six new exhibits, hosts gathering of descendants of enslaved families
- Andrew Tisch, new book of American immigration stories, to be featured at Monticello’s Independence Day Celebration
- NEH Awards Monticello Two New Grants, Nearly $1 Million Within A Year
- Monticello Announces Major International Conference, Free Public Forum on Slavery
- UVA, Monticello Announce 2018 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalists
2017
- Monticello Awarded NEH Grant to Improve Digital Infrastructure for the Archaeological Study of Slavery
- Former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, hospitality entrepreneur join Monticello's Board of Trustees
- Monticello announces religious liberty advocate Ambassador David Saperstein as Independence Day speaker
- Monticello introduces new, Hamilton-themed tour
- A Statement on the Torch-bearing Protest at Lee Park on Saturday, May 13
- UVA, Monticello Announce Recipients of 2017 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
- Monticello Adds New Events to Black History Month Programming
2016
- Monticello Historic Gardener and Curator of Plants Receives Horticulture Commendation from The Garden Club of America
- Monticello to Display Original Copy of 13th Amendment, Signed by Abraham Lincoln
- Monticello to Host Capstone Public Summit on Race and the Legacy of Slavery as Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities' 50th Anniversary Celebration
- 76 people from 40 countries to become U.S. citizens at Monticello on July 4
- Daughters of the American Revolution Honor Thomas Jefferson Foundation President, Monticello with Historic Preservation Awards
- Monticello Announces Dr. Larry J. Sabato as Keynote Speaker at Independence Day Celebration
- Revolutionary War Comes to Monticello
- Monticello Welcomes New Members to Board of Trustees
- UVA, Monticello to Celebrate Founder's Day With Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalists
- Garden Club of Virginia Presents Restored Landscape to Monticello
- Monticello Welcomes African American Luminaries to Mourn, Remember and Mobilize on the Mountaintop
- UVA, Monticello Announce Winners of 2016 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
2015
- IMLS awards Monticello National Leadership Grant
- UVA's Darden School of Business and Monticello Announce the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Global Innovation
- Governor McAuliffe to be featured speaker at Monticello's July 4th Ceremony
- Monticello Launches New "Slavery at Monticello" App
- Monticello's Historic Mountaintop Project to Receive Second $10 Million Gift
- Monticello Commemorates a Milestone in Restoration with Free Public Event
- U.Va., Monticello Announce Winners of 2015 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals
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