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  • "Never Spend Your Money Before You Have It"

    • Thomas Jefferson
    by C.Campbell
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    September 30, 2011

    Around 1811, Jefferson wrote a letter to his granddaughter Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, which contained a list of twelve “Canons of Conduct in Life” – rules to live by, in essence. In 1825 he sent the same list, minus two rules, to a baby boy named Thomas Jefferson Smith in response to a request from the child’s father.

  • Mulberry Row: Choosing Artifacts

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    • Slavery and the Legacy of Race
    by Anonymous
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    September 9, 2011

    If only we could showcase everything! An upcoming exhibition will contain ten panels that investigate the people, buildings, and industries of Mulberry Row. Only dozens of artifacts of many thousands of artifacts recovered by the Monticello Archaeology Department will make it to the display cases. So, how do we choose?

  • Jefferson-era Recipe: Tomata Catsup

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    • Plantation Agriculture, Gardens & Grounds •
    • Research
    by Anoymous
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    September 2, 2011

    Leni Sorensen, our African American Research Historian and a culinary historian of national repute, has once again made this month's dish and here we include her notes and pictures.

  • The Wall Street Journal looks at Jefferson's lasting decorative influence

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    • Thomas Jefferson
    by Monticello
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    August 22, 2011

    A Wall Street Journal story on Jefferson's influence on decorator and former White House design consultant Carleton Varney.

  • Mary, Mary

    • People and Places •
    • Research
    by Anna Berkes
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    August 17, 2011

  • Jefferson-era Recipe: Peach Marmalade

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    • Research
    by Anonymous
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    August 5, 2011

    Leni Sorensen, our African American Research Historian and a culinary historian of national repute, has once again made this month's dish and here we include her notes and pictures.

  • Archaeology on Mulberry Row—A Little History: Part 3

    by Fraser D. Neiman
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    July 15, 2011

    In the third and final posting this series, we’ll briefly consider how the intellectual legacies of the New Archaeology affect current archaeological practice and our approach to the reanalysis of Pi-Sunyer (part 1) and Kelso’s (part 2) finds on Mulberry Row.

  • Archaeology on Mulberry Row—A Little History: Part 2

    • Archaeology
    by Fraser D. Neiman
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    July 8, 2011

    Over 20 years after Oriel Pie-Sunyer, William Kelso brought a different set of field techniques to his work on Mulberry Row.

  • Jefferson-era Recipe: Eggplant

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    • Research
    by Anonymous
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    July 1, 2011

    Leni Sorensen, our African American Research Historian and a culinary historian of national repute, has once again made this month's dish and here we include her notes and pictures.

  • Archaeology on Mulberry Row—A Little History: Part 1

    • Archaeology
    by Fraser D. Neiman
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    June 27, 2011

    Everyone knows that archaeologists dig. But it is less widely appreciated that just how they dig and what they find varies with the kinds of questions they ask and the assumptions they make.

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