Dancing, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “is a healthy exercise, elegant and very attractive for young people.” Dance is an aspect of Jefferson's legacy that we honestly had not considered in detail before. The recent events involving the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC provided an opportunity for the...
Prepared Remarks at Celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s 268th Birthday Charlottesville, Virginia April 13, 2011 Watch a video of this speech » Thank you, Gene, for your kind introduction. And thank you to Leslie Greene Bowman and Don King of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. To Dean Harry Harding and...
The translation of selected works of Jefferson into Arabic was inspired by Professor Juan Cole at the University of Michigan who is a leading interpreter of the Middle East. Following the dramatic events of 9/11, Professor Cole was concerned about the lack of availability of classic writings about...
Philanthropist and statesman, Peter G. Peterson will be the featured speaker at Monticello's commemoration of Jefferson's 268th birthday on April 13 at 10 a.m., on the West Lawn of Monticello. Peterson is the 5th recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership. He is the...
Want to know what Jefferson thought about a particular issue that continues to be relevant? Well, you're in luck. Or you will be in a year or so, when a digital archive of the papers of the Founding Fathers becomes publicly accessible. At Monticello, we've long been excited about the possibility...
In the wake of the release of U.S. diplomatic cables on Wikileaks, Eric Johnson, Monticello's New Media Specialist, talks with Jean Bauer, creator of " The Early American Foreign Service Database ," about what is was like for Jefferson and his successors to communicate with America's ambassadors...
On July 20, 2010, the New York Times published a thoughtful essay on Jefferson's lessons for relating to the Middle East Ted Widmer of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Says Widmer, "More than most founders, Thomas Jefferson has a way of returning to the news cycle." Read Widmer's...
Monticello has a 30-second film spot running six times daily on the huge outdoor screen at the U.S. Pavilion of the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China. The video runs daily through October and can seen by millions of Expo visitors. The 30-second message was made with images from Monticello’s acclaimed...
Guesty commentary ...it is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves... --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, December 23,...
Guesty commentary the increase of [federal] revenue ... hastens the moment of liberating our revenue, and of permitting us to begin upon canals, roads, colleges, &c. -- Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, May 29, 1805 W ould Jefferson have supported the current health care reform? It’s hard to...
