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1 day ago · Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 [b] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and ...
- Martha Jefferson Randolph
Martha "Patsy" Randolph (née Jefferson; September 27, 1772 –...
- Jane Randolph Jefferson
Jane Randolph Jefferson (February 10, 1720 – March 31, 1776)...
- Mary Jefferson Eppes
Mary Jefferson Eppes (August 1, 1778 – April 17, 1804),...
- John Adams
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American...
- Martha Jefferson Randolph
3 days ago · Jordan’s vision is reflected in the Monticello of today. He expanded the campus to include Montalto, where he restored the home “Repose” as a conference center; negotiated the lease of adjacent Kenwood as the home for ICJS, enabling construction of the award-winning Jefferson Library; acquired approximately 900 acres that once belonged to Jefferson and put binding easements on almost ...
3 days ago · My first time to travel to Washington, DC was earlier this month, when I traveled to the nation’s capital for the Congressional City Conference. It is an understatement to say that I learned a lot: in a three-day period, we saw President Joe Biden, Mt. Vernon, and on the last day, Monticello. It was a LEAP-worthy experience:
3 days ago · Thomas Jefferson's main plantation, Monticello (from the Italian for "little mountain") is pictured here in a painting by Jane Braddick Peticolas. The painting captures Jefferson's vision of an American nation built on agricultural virtue, fused with neoclassical elements.
1 day ago · Comment. Daniel P. Jordan, a historian who guided Monticello into the 21st century, safeguarding President Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop plantation while broadening its educational programs to ...
5 days ago · Jefferson Memorial, monument to Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, situated in East Potomac Park on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. Authorized in 1934 as part of a beautification program for the nation’s capital, it was opposed by many modernist architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, who ...
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5 days ago · Earlier this month, we discussed the lives of enslaved women at Monticello. This week we turn to the experiences of white women who lived on the mountaintop, including Thomas Jefferson’s wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson; Jefferson’s sister, Anna Scott Jefferson Marks; Jefferson’s daughter, Mart