Monticello Blog

Some weeks ago a book was returned to us, and its back cover caught my eye. As it happens, the book itself, as well as its author, are well worth examination, even though they seem not to be as well known as they should be.

Today was the grand opening of the new Monticello Visitor Center & Smith Education Center, and we are sooooooo tired right now.

It is a rare thing for historians of early American foreign policy to see their subject discussed on national cable outlets.

In 2009, comparisons of the Somali Pirate Situation to Jefferson's Barbary Pirate Situation abounded.

Does the 44th share the view of the third? Is the presidency a "splendid misery?"

Well, it's the 144th birthday of Paul Leicester Ford.

Did Jefferson really have Asperger's Syndrome? Nope.

In honor of Presidents' Day, I tried really hard to think of some Abraham Lincoln-themed material for this post, but the best I could come up with was a blurb about a work of fiction set during George Washington's presidency.

Well, it took me all day but I plowed through all of the Google Alerts I've gotten in the past week.

Jefferson's once wrote about experiments that showed the human body will survive in rooms heated to 347°F--more than a hundred degrees above boiling water! How is that remotely possible?