Monticello

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• SOURCE: Paris Review
  5/21/2020
  

  America’s First Connoisseur

  James Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, taught his fellow slaves at Monticello everything he knew about food, transmitting his influence down the generations, onto the tables of Virginia’s social elite.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/24/20
  

  National Register of Historic Places Often Ignores Slavery's Significance on American South

  The register’s written entries on the plantations tend to say almost nothing about the enslaved people.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/19
  

  As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back

  “We’re at a very polarized, partisan political moment in our country, and not surprisingly, when we are in those moments, history becomes equally polarized."

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• 12/15/2018
  

  Is Monticello Monetizing Race at Jefferson’s Expense?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-15-18
  

  Sally Hemings Takes Center Stage

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  For centuries, historians denied Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings. This exhibit has been a long time coming, but better late than never.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-16-18
  

  Monticello Is Done Avoiding Jefferson’s Relationship With Sally Hemings

  A new exhibit grapples with the reality of slavery and deals a final blow to two centuries of ignoring or covering up what amounted to an open secret.

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• 6-15-18
  

  The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Now Claims He Fathered Six Children with Sally Hemings

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  But is the matter really settled?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-13-18
  

  Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history

  On Saturday, Monticello will open the room to the public, with a small exhibition devoted to the life of Hemings and the Hemings family.

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• 5/6/18
  

  Monticello Claims to Have Found Sally Hemings’s Room. Is This True?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak and Vivienne Kelley

  No one knows. But because sex fascinates and it sells, Monticello is ripping up floors and preparing to establish a new tourist attraction.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  7-4-17
  

  No, Archeologists Did Not Just Discover Sally Hemings’s Room

  by Thomas A. Foster

  They found our own struggles with the past.

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• 2-26-17
  

  Did Jefferson Really Hide Sally Hemings in a Long-Lost Secret Room at Monticello?

  by William G. Hyland Jr.

  A skeptic argues that there’s no evidence Hemings even lived at Monticello.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-19-17
  

  For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings.

  A $35 million restoration project will bolster Monticello’s infrastructure but also reconstruct and showcase buildings where enslaved people lived and worked.

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• SOURCE: UVA Today
  9-18-16
  

  Weekend summit on slavery held at Monticello

  Historian Peter Onuf started off the first panel discussion looking at the country’s founding and key lessons from slavery up through the Civil Rights Movement.

• SOURCE: NBC 29 News
  5-21-13
  

  Monticello works to include slavery

  Monticello is one of the region's most popular landmarks, bringing in tourists from around the country to view the mansion and garden of Thomas Jefferson.But it's also a former plantation with deep racial history that's often been overlooked on tours and in public dialogue.Monticello opened in 1923, and for the first 50 or so years there was little, if any, mention of slavery."For a long time it wasn't a topic that was talked about," said Gary Sandling, the vice president of visitor programs and services for Monticello. "There would have been talk of servants, or field hands, or a skilled workforce," he said....

• SOURCE: AP
  5-14-13
  

  Papers shed light on Thomas Jefferson

  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Manuscripts and other materials that offer new perspectives on Thomas Jefferson are being donated to the foundation that owns his estate.The Thomas Jefferson Foundation was to formally accept 2,500 manuscripts, works of art and decorative objects at a reception Tuesday afternoon at the Jefferson Library at Monticello. The items donated by Sister Margherita Marchione are related to Jefferson’s longtime friend, Philip Mazzei.“The materials shed new light from different angles on Jefferson, Monticello, and the whole founding generation,” Jack Robertson, Monticello’s foundation librarian, told The Daily Progress (http://bit.ly/10UNnTC )....

• SOURCE: AP
  4-15-13
  

  Va. Group Looks to Preserve Monticello’s View

  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The foundation that owns Thomas Jefferson’s estate hopes to take efforts to preserve Monticello’s spectacular mountain views a step further, an idea that worries some developers.A request the group filed with the Albemarle County Planning Commission calls for nearly quadrupling the size of what’s known as the Monticello viewshed and expanding voluntary guidelines for developers in the region.“There’s a reason we’re up there with the pyramids and the Great Wall,” said Leslie Greene Bowman , president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. “It has a lot do with Jefferson’s vision, not only figuratively but literally.”...