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March 6, 2012
This year Monticello launched the new ‘Getting Word’ website —a vast collection of oral histories,...More >>
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Plantation and SlaveryMarch 1, 2012
Teri Allard, host of Charlottesville Inside Out shows how to get in touch with American history at...More >>
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Visiting MonticelloJanuary 27, 2012
The New York Times calls it "an invaluable companion book" to the recently opened exhibition...More >>
January 26, 2012
Monticello's joint exhibition with the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History...More >>
January 10, 2012
Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? By Jean Fritz Pictures by Tomie dePaola 1977 Reading level...More >>
December 28, 2011
The AP's Zinie Chen Sampson writes about three new projects launching this winter to shed light on...More >>
December 7, 2011
A recent entry in the New York Times' ongoing Disunion feature revisiting the Civil War, highlights...More >>
December 7, 2011
This past Saturday, December 3rd, the Museum Shop at Monticello hosted its first-ever “Handmade for...More >>
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Visiting MonticelloDecember 2, 2011
Time for the December installment of our monthly series in which we post a recipe from The Virginia...More >>
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Food and drinkNovember 22, 2011
It seems that the glory days of spurious Jefferson quotations have gone. Rarely do we get these...More >>