Previous ICJS Programs

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 ‘causes which impel them to the separation’: The Declaration of Independence and the Reasons for the American Revolution

The Light Between Apple Trees

The Many Modes of Powerful Presidential Persuasion

The Plantation Revival

The Scientist Turned Spy

"The Visible State": US Diplomatic Agents and Information in Europe and the Federal Territories, 1789-1800

This is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations

Thomas Jefferson: Anti-papist

Uncovering, Exploring and Interrogating the Philosophy of Science of Thomas Jefferson

Virginia Festival of the Book - The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

War Stories: Remembering the Revolution

2023

2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture - The Man Who Built Jefferson's World: Yankee Sullivan and the Making of a Global System

A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage

An Empire of Love: Revisiting the American Confederation, 1776-1789 

En Route to Revolution

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

Freedom in Black and White: The Politics of Slavery and Black Expatriation in Nineteenth Century America

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

Much More than Macaroni

Nicolas Trist's Vindication of Thomas Jefferson from the Charge of Supporting Nullification

Rebirthed in Clay: A Re-Examination of Afro-Crucian Ware and Cultural Identity in 18th-19th St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Revolutionary Loyalism: Enslavement and Liberation

Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health

'Settled out of Doors': Caucus Building, Sociability, and the Development of Partisanship in the Early Republic

Ships of Reason: The Enlightenment of Stephen Girard and the Mariners Who Built His Merchant Empire

Studying the Past, Planning the Future: Commemorating the Centennial of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation

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 "circumstances of our emigration and settlement here": The Origins and Formations of Peoples, Property, and Territories in the US Declaration of Independence

'the disagreeable situation in between the Civil and the Military': Prisoner of War Management in the American Revolution

The Effect of the Seven Years War on Colonial Militias in Rio De Janeiro and Virginia

The Fluidity of Allegiance in Revolutionary Vermont

The Link Between Jefferson and Condorcet in Paris: Why It Matters and Why It Was Stronger Than We Thought 

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

Thomas Jefferson's and George Washington's Shared Interests in Soil Health and Regenerative Agriculture

Virginia Festival of the Book: American Inheritance

2022

American Academy of Diplomacy 2022 Annual Conference: Diplomacy and the Environment

A Spark of Revolution: William Small, Thomas Jefferson, and James Watt: The Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution

Art, Technology, and Aesthetics within Landscapes of Enslavement in the Colonial South, 1740-1810

Black Girl in Paris

"Clever," "Industrious" and "Well Qualified" Women: The Role of Non-Elite and Enslaved Women on Jefferson and Washington's Plantations

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

Leonard J. Sadosky Memorial Lecture with Hannah Spahn - Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition

On Becoming Dolley Madison

"...tell Johnny Hemmings to finish off immediately the frame for the round table": a Case Study of Enslaved Cabinetmaker John Hemmings and the Output from the Monticello Joiner's Shop

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

"Wicked To Keep Your Subjects Home By Force": Thomas Miller, Henry Dundas, adn teh Suppression of Scottish Emigration in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

2021

2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture - Why Do We Teach the History of the American Revolution?

America's Earliest Museums: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Collections of Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere and Charles Willson Peale

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 

"Sacred Rights of Life and Liberty": Contests over the Declaration of Independence, British Slavery, and Structural Racism

Some of Thomas Jefferson's Complicated Friends: Quakers Working for Jefferson on his Slave Plantations or Providing Outside Goods

Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court

The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution

The Michaux Subscription List

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 Overseers in Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise

The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

The Education of John Adams