Monticello Blog Archive
An archive of Monticello blog posts saved as pdfs.
2023
2022
- Top-6 unusual plants
- Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Stands with Ukraine
- Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev
- Ascendant Livestream
2021
2020
- Researching Jefferson during lockdown
- A Statement by Monticello
- Jefferson's Competition in the Nail-selling Business
- A Monticello Food Pairing
- In the Hands of the People
- Enslaved Households at Site 6: Clues from Monticello and Australia
- Conserving Monticello's Great Clock
2019
- A Very Cool Addition to the Center for Historic Plants at Monticello
- Indispensable for safety
- See the New Music Video Shot at MonticelloCville2jtown the Charlottesville to Jamestown Pilgrimage
- CBS This Morning Features Jefferson Descendants Coming together at Monticello
- Preservation in Progress: Filling Cracks in Monticello's Wall Panels
- Thomas Jefferson's Physical Therapy Kit
- Restoring Monticello's East-Portico Ceiling
- East Portico Compass Rose Restoration
2018
- Bluebirds thriving at Monticello
- Bring your garden indoors plant with an heirloom cutting garden
- Look Closer Opening
- New Discoveries in Architecture
- Re-staining the South Pavilion roof
- Sally Hemings Thomas Jefferson Monticello and the Importance of Words
- Statement on the Passing of Historian Jan Ellen Lewis
- Showcasing Traditional Finishes in Monticello's Tea Room
2017
- Home improvements at Monticello
- Memories Matter
- Farewell to a Sycamore
- The Mather Brown Portraits of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
- Essential Questions of Race and History
- Events in Charlotesville
- A Statement from Leslie Greene Bowman
- President Thomas Jefferson Requests a Sampling of Cider
2016
- The unsolved case of the Jefferson curtain hardware
- Stone Stable restoration
- Coming home with the Slave Dwelling Project
- Color Me Monticello
- New Investments by Monticello Solve Jefferson’s Water Dilemma
- Monticello's North Dependency Reconstruction Underway
- Black Angels
- Archaeology at the Stone Stable
2015
- Archaeological Excavations at the North Wing
- Plants are people too
- Whose chip is it, anyway?
- Video of the Public Summit Memory Mourning Mobilization Legacies of Slavery and Freedom in America
- Monticello Welcomes 25 Young African Leaders to Jefferson’s Home
- A Teenager’s View on Monticello’s Naturalization Ceremony
2014
- Monticello’s nursery being restored, part 1
- Landscape history from a utility trench, part 1
- French Laundry Culinary gardener Aaron Keefer speaks on the “Generous Tomato”
- Reuniting Monticello’s Landscape of Slavery reconstructing Jefferson’s roads
- Discoveries in the North Passage
- The Greatest Issue Facing the United States Today Is Fairness James H Webb Jr
- Introducing the Mountaintop Project: Revealing Jefferson's Monticello!
- Move in Day at Monticello
- Videos of President Obama and President Hollande at Monticello
- Jefferson and "Sustainability" Musings on the Mountaintop
- Thomas Jefferson, Runner
- The Lioness, the Musk, and Monticello's Bell Garden
- The Battle of Bunker Hill in the Archives
2013
- Summer and fall flowering shrubs: Time for a late winter haircut
- Looking ahead to the centennial, Monticello receives 10 million gift for restoration efforts
- Winter Comforts: The French Fauteuil at Monticello and Gale Hill
- Jefferson's Progressive Use of Microclimate
- Joiner’s Shop chimney model
2012
- New archaeological discoveries at Tufton
- A new discovery on Mulberry Row slightly wonkish
- Historic roses P. Allen Smith and a trip to Moss Mountain
- Archaeological fieldwork update the Kitchen Road
- Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello Opens in Washington D C
- In Conjunction with the Launch of Monticello’s Getting Word Website Comes a Powerful 3 Minute Film
- Marking 50 Years of Naturalization Ceremonies at Monticello
- Odelia Rasheed Becomes a U’s Citizen This July 4th at Monticello
- The Wall Street Journal Asks Did Jefferson Say That
- Those Who Labor for My Happiness Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
- Incorporating ornamental vegetables into your flower garden
- An Attempt to Eat Locally
- Spring Crop Harvest
- Rain Gardens: Good for You, Biodiversity, Groundwater, and Much More!
- Top 7 Reasons to Visit Monticello by Jon Meacham
- Story of Slavery at Monticello Featured on Cbs Sunday Morning
2011
- Out in the social whirl
- A find of a lifetime Jefferson books quest ends at Washington University
- A typical day in archaeology
- A nickel worth of scents
- Archaeology on Mulberry Row a Little History Part 1
- Archaeology on Mulberry Row a Little History Part 2
- Archaeology on mulberry row a little history part 3
- Mulberry Row choosing artifacts
- Mornings in Monticello
- Unique finds, a.k.a cool stuff in archaeology
- That Pesky Billiard Table
- Jefferson Era Recipe Cabbage a La Creme
- Jefferson Era Recipe Cauliflower
- Jefferson Era Recipe Asparagus
- Bringing Back Mulberry Row
- Thomas Jefferson and Dance
- The Wall Street Journal Looks at Jefferson’s Lasting Decorative Influence
- Jefferson Plants in the White House Kitchen
- Jefferson Era Recipe Peas
- Not in Sympathy
- Congratulations to Monticello's Peter Hatch
- What Was Mulberry Row
- Jefferson Era Recipe French Beans
- The "Pull of Home"
- Jefferson Era Recipe Eggplant
- Mary, Mary
- Jefferson Era Recipe Tomata Catsup
- Jefferson Era Recipe Peach Marmalade
- Jefferson Era Recipe Pepper Vinegar
- The Dome Room, The Intern Cave and Other Historical Adventures
- Jefferson Era Recipe Sauce for a Goose
2010
- Snowpocalypse 1772
- A puzzling purchase
- Following the trails
- A little piece of Monticello
- Oddly Precise
- The Nullifiers
- Smells like the perfume of purity and saintly sweetness
- Dynamic diets at Monticello
- A Chesire Cat moment
- Tracking down Jefferson’s correspondence
- A closer look at cardinals
- TJ, Fireman
- On the Welshness
- Postcard Images of Jefferson
2009
- Involved in their own governing
- Reputation of a nation
- A statement of aspiration
- Patriotic attachments
- Here come the patent trolls
- TJ Faces the Nation
- Universal Principles
- Inaugurations and such
- Not so hot
- President Obama's call for unity evokes Jefferson's words
- The future of your experiment in democracy
- That's some bad hat, Martha
- From the weird to the wonderful
- I heart Paul Leicester Ford
- No tame geniuses in waistcoats here
- The Interests of a nation
- Aw, that's not so hot
- Delicious Historical Fiction
- Little Anthony
- The Artist Speaks Sfmoma Murals of Monticello and Mount Vernon
- Archaeological Research Begins to Tell the Story of Tufton
- An Incidental Architect and his Disgruntled Wife Weekend at Jefferson's
- Really Mortified
- A wave of pirate comparisons
- Jefferson, Obama, and the problem of piracy
- Ta-da!
- The cult of Marie Kimball
- Almost too easy
- Mom of note, Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks
- All John Soane all the time
- A Wall of Separation
- Alcorans, and the acquisition thereof
- CSI Natchez Trace
- Impossible engineering
- President Obama’s Call for Unity Evokes Jefferson’s Words
- Wishing on a lucky Jefferson
- I call it the "gilded pig"
- A religious conscience
- The artist speaks: SFMOMA displays murals of Monticello and Mount Vernon
- Universal Principles
- Reputation of a Nation
- Jefferson and the itty-bitty potentate
- Self-evident? Americans' perceptions of liberty vary
- Romanticizing romanticism in the Old South
2008
- Virginia dissenters
- Jefferson’s books at the Library of Congress
- Taking Jefferson’s name in vain, again
- Bathhouses for the Jefferson Pools to Be Restored at the Homestead Resort
- Desalination of Sea Water Mistaken Identity?
- TJ and Wine on Npr
- Jefferson still survives, unlike the other guy
- Epic 10-part reference question
- Jefferson v. Buffon