2024

"A Contest for Dominion on the Shores of the Pacific"

"a pinching, miserly system": Managing Plantation Risk in Post Revolutionary Virginia

Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Views of Jeffersonian America 1795 1820 the Digital Edition

Bitter Vines: Wine and Slavery in the United States

Black Winemaking at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Colonial and Transcultural Agriculture in Jefferson's America f

Intellectual Histories of the American Revolution - Call for Papers

Jefferson's Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt

Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic

Revolutionary Women: A Symposium

The 2024 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture

The ‘causes which impel them to the separation’: The Declaration of Independence and the Reasons for the American Revolution

The Light Between Apple Trees

The Many Modes of Powerful Presidential Persuasion

The Plantation Revival

The Scientist Turned Spy

"The Visible State": US Diplomatic Agents and Information 1789-1800

This is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations

Thomas Jefferson: Anti-papist

South Carolina pro-French Republicans, Jefferson, and the French Revolution, 1789-1801

Uncovering Exploring and Interrogating the Philosophy of Science of Thomas Jefferson

Virginia Festival of the Book - The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

War Stories Remembering the Revolution

2023

2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture - The Man Who Built Jefferson's World: Yankee Sullivan and the Making of a Global System

American Reformation

An Empire of Love: Revisiting the American Confederation 1776-1789

Book Events of 2023

En Route to Revolution

For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry's Final Political Battle

Freedom Ideal and Practice in the Reform Works of Thomas Jefferson and Christian Reventlow

Freedom in Black and White

Intertwined

Jefferson and Kosciuszko: Two Different Friends

Jefferson and the Jews

Jefferson Territorial Expansion and the Pursuit of Science in the American Southwest 1776-1826

Jefferson, Art, Architecture, and Native Culture

Jefferson's Book and Logan's Tree Historical Media and Indigenous Memory

Jefferson’s “Country”: Notes on the State of Virginia and the Invention of America

Jefferson's President's House Dinner List 1804-1809

Luck's Republic Lotteries Class and Finance in Early America

A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage

Material Cultures of Inequality Slavery and Freedom in French Guiana

Materializing Emancipation

Much More Than Macaroni

Rebirthed in Clay

Revolutionary Loyalism Enslavement and Liberation

Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health

Settled out of Doors: Caucus Building Sociability and the Development of Partisanship in the Early Republic

Ships of Reason the Enlightenment of Stephen Girard and the Mariners Who Built His Merchant Empire

Some of Thomas Jefferson's Complicated Friends Quakers Working for Jefferson on His Slave Plantations or Providing Outside Goods

Studying the Past, Planning the Future: Commemorating the Centennial of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation

The Age of Atlantic Revolution: the Fall and Rise of a Connected World

The Age of Restoration and American History Reframing the Colonial in the Colonial Revival

The Anglicisation and De-Anglicisation of Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826

"The Antidotes of Truth:" The First Editions of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison’s Papers

The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith: Crafting Genius and Transatlantic Fame in the Romantic Era

The Circumstances of Our Emigration and Settlement Here the Origins and Formations of Peoples Property and Territories in the Us Declaration of Independence

'the disagreeable situation in between the Civil and the Military': Prisoner of War Management in the American Revolution

The Effect of the Seven Years War on Colonial Militias in Rio De Janeiro and Virginia

The Fluidity of Allegiance in Revolutionary Vermont

The Link Between Jefferson and Condorcet in Paris Why It Matters and Why It Was Stronger Than We Thought 

The Practice of Citizenship Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States

The Transformation of the Slave Trade in Virginia 1770-1830

Thomas Jefferson: Fashion Is Political, Politics Are Fashionable

Thomas Jefferson's and George Washington's Shared Interests in Soil Health and Regenerative Agriculture

Virginia Festival of the Book: American Inheritance

Virtual Fellow's Forum With Clifford Humphrey

2022

A Spark of Revolution

Art, Technology, and Aesthetics Within Landscapes of Enslavement in the Colonial South: 1740-1810

Black Girl in Paris

Book Talk with Robert Pierce Forbes 

Enslaved Women and the Duality of Feeding in the Antebellum South

Fighting Words in the American Revolution 1763-87

From Different Quarters Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic

Haunted Ontologies Thinking with Ghosts At Monticello

2nd Annual Leonard Sadosky Lecture with Hannah Spahn

On Becoming Dolley Madison

"...tell Johnny Hemmings to finish off immediately the frame for the round table": a Case Study of Enslaved Cabinetmaker John Hemmings and the Output from the Monticello Joiner's Shop

The Abolition of the Slave Trade to the United States

American Academy of Diplomacy 2022 Annual Conference: Diplomacy and the Environment

The American Revolution and the Ancient World

The Last King of America Livestream

The Maria Hadfield Cosway Exhibit

The Role of Non Elite and Enslaved Women on Jefferson and Washington's Plantations

The Sage of Monticello and the Sweet Swan of Avon

The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson Book Launch

Thomas Jefferson John Adams and the Lord of Misrule: a Book Talk with Peter C Mancall

Virginia Festival of the Book: "The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind"

What the Sub-Floor Pit Holds

Wicked To Keep Your Subjects Home By Force

2021

"Sacred Rights of Life and Liberty": Contests Over the Declaration of Independence British Slavery and Structural Racism

2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture

America's Earliest Museums a Virtual Reconstruction of the Collections of Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere and Charles Willson Peale

Brick Palladian Architecture: Jefferson’s Transformation of Stone to Clay

Church, State, and Institutional Slaveholding in Early National Virginia

Cultivating Conviviality: Alcohol Jeffersonian Sociability and Monticello's Object Scapes

Dolley Madison: a Quaker by Birth and a Slave Owner by Choice

Fiske and Marie Kimball: Shaping Our Experience of Buildings and Objects

Forever Retained as a National Shrine Remembering Slavery at a Public Monticello

Gunpowder Joe Joseph Priestley and the Rhetoric of Dissent

Haitian Intellectual History in the Age of Revolutions

Jefferson's Proclamation Challenging Royal Land Rights in Revolutionary America 1763 1776 

Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court with Paul Finkelman

The Compleat Victory Saratoga and the American Revolution

The Michaux Subscription List

The Most French of All the American Presidents

The Smell of Slavery Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World

The Strange Genius of Mr O: the World of the United States First Forgotten Celebrity

The War Executives: Debating and Creating Executive Power During the American Revolutionary War

Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a Party One Hundred and Fifty Libeling Slandering Lawyers

Transatlantic Slavery Symposium

“To Make a Christian of Andrew Jackson”:  Piety, Power, and Politics in the Election of 1824

Violence and Peace in Virginia Legal Culture

Virtual Fellow's Forum With Andrew J B Fagal

Why Do We Teach the History of the American Revolution?

2020

Annual Conference With the American Academy of Diplomacy: Does Europe Still Matter To America?

Humboldt and Jefferson: Transatlantic Exchange of Knowledge and Ideas

New Frontiers in Early American History

Overseers in Early America

Sally Hemings Forced Itinerancy as a Site of Possibility

The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

The Education of John Adams

Decoding the Founding Truths Lies and Myths