THE THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION
invites you to a Monticello Cabinet Evening Conversation
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation:
The Next 100 Years
featuring
Dr. Frank Cogliano
Interim Saunders Director of the
Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies
Thursday, September 21, 2023
West Lawn, Monticello
5:30 p.m. – Reception and Walk-through Tours
6:30 p.m. – Program
Generously sponsored by Martin Horn, Truist,
RCM&D Insurance, and Chubb Group of Insurance Companies.
Please complete the form below to register for the
Monticello Cabinet Evening Conversation on September 21, 2023.
The favor of your reply is requested by September 7th.
About the Speaker
Frank Cogliano is Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh, where he serves as the University’s Dean International (North America). During the 2023-24 academic year he will serve as the Interim Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.
Cogliano received his B.A. in history from Tufts University and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Boston University. He has taught at universities in the United States, England, and Scotland and has been a member of the History Department at the University of Edinburgh since 1997. He has served as the president of the Scottish Association for the Study of America and as the chair of the program committee of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Cogliano was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1999 and as a Member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts in 2022. A specialist in the history of the American Revolution and the early United States, he is the author or editor of nine books, including: Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy (2006), The Blackwell Companion to Jefferson (2012) and Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy (2014). His Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History is now in its fourth edition. (A colleague at a British university--not the University of Edinburgh--once described it as, “The book my students plagiarize the most.”) In February 2024 Harvard University Press will publish his next book: Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson and the American Republic. Along with Patrick Griffin, Christa Dierksheide, and Eliga Gould he edits the Revolutionary Age series for the University of Virginia Press.
Frank Cogliano is committed to engaging a wide audience with the study of history. For many years he was a workshop leader for schoolteachers, and co-hosts the American history podcast The Whiskey Rebellion. He is the incoming president of the Open History Society in Edinburgh. He has made numerous media appearances, commenting on U.S. history, politics, and international relations, for the BBC and other outlets. He has made multiple appearances on the BBC’s flagship In Our Time program.
About the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Centennial
On April 13, 1923, Thomas Jefferson's 180th birthday, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation formed as a private nonprofit corporation and purchased Monticello to serve "as a memorial to the Author of the Declaration of Independence and for the purpose of inculcating through patriotic education a better understanding and appreciation of the life and service of Thomas Jefferson." The house opened as a public attraction, and it has since welcomed more than 32 million visitors. During the past century, the Foundation has instituted numerous research and educational programs as well as major restoration and renovation projects, fulfilling its dual mission of preservation and education. Monticello is a National Historic Landmark and the only presidential home or slavery plantation in the United States included on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.