Thursday, July 5, 2018 -- A new exhibit at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home hear Charlottesville, Va., underscores the fact that the Jefferson estate was an epicenter of racial mixing ...
Thomas Jefferson. The mention of the name of our nation’s third president, for some Americans, brings to mind the Declaration of Independence, the founding of our country and Jefferson’s home, ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- The new Giant grocery will be built, in a sense, in Thomas Jefferson's back yard. So would the proposed hospital, retirement community, residential village and two power plants.
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello is seeking to “Embrace the Climb” with a 10-year strategic plan that has been two years in the making. The vision’s name is taken from a quote from Jefferson in 1786: ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Partially built into the base of a mountain and largely surrounded by trees, Monticello's new visitor center blends into the central Virginia landscape. Invisible from Thomas ...
University of Virginia students have plenty of reasons for not having visited Monticello, the home of UVA founder Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps they grew up far away, or their families never quite made it ...
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello was hit by a ransomware attack this week that knocked out the historic home’s electronic systems. The attack was discovered Tuesday, and since then Monticello has not ...
For four decades, Jefferson kept meticulous records of every dollar he spent and the activities of the people he held as slaves — the fee for hiring a midwife to birth an enslaved woman’s child, the ...