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Monticello Podcasts — 209 episodes
Amaranths, Garden Pests, and Ginkgos
The Election of 1800
The Room Where It Happens
A Brief History of the Turkey
Tale of a Cockade – Thomas Jefferson's Daughter in Revolutionary Paris
Revolutionizing Archaeology at Monticello
"Like a shock of electricity": Jefferson and the Intolerable Acts
When News of Independence Travels
Robert Hemmings's Signature
Games at Monticello
Hamilton vs. Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson's Health Habits
Restoring Monticello's Flower Gardens
Family and Freedom: Critta Hemings and Zachariah Bowles
Roses, Strawberries, Tulip Poplars and Fringe Trees
The President and The Naturalist: Humboldt's Trailblazing Travels
Object(-ive) History at Monticello
Dome Rooms, Cat Holes, and Fairy Palaces
Fruit Grafting and Jefferson's Favorite Garden Nurseries
The Great Eclipse
The Life and "Happiness" of Martha Wayles Jefferson
Jefferson and His Gardens
Thomas Jefferson's Grand Day Out in London
Gardening Granddaughters, Hyacinths, and Tree Clumps
The Edgehill School for Young Ladies
Free State: The Legacy of Amy Farrow
Gardens of Enslaved Families, Pruning
The Fantastic Tale of Selim the Algerian
A Mythological Figure at Monticello
The Fiery Arch: Celebrating the Treaty of Paris
A Love-Hate Relationship: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
Restoring an American Icon
Greenhouses, Historic and Modern
But What About Montalto?
Winter on the Mountain
The Corps of Discovery Celebrates the Holidays
Winter Interest, Holiday Decorating, and Wreaths!
Who's Who in Jefferson’s First Presidential Cabinet
My Essay in Architecture
Bulbs, Pumpkins, and Woody Plants
California’s First Black Legislator: Frederick Madison Roberts
Mammut Americanum
Monticello Macabre
Asters, Squash, Fall Foliage, and Wine
Benjamin Banneker Challenges Thomas Jefferson
George Ticknor Visits Monticello
Restoring Jefferson's Reputation
Seed Saving and Fall Planting
The Horses of Monticello
"The Delight of Every Hour"
Thomas Jefferson's Polygraph
Paying for Monticello
Tomatoes, Shade, and Honey
What Were Thomas Jefferson’s Favorite Books?
"That Evil Genius": Ellen Wayles Randolph
"These are grounds of hope for others": Declarations Since 1776
Who Owns Monticello?
Water, Lewis and Clark Plants, American Chestnut
Margaret Bayard Smith, "A Mind So Active"
John Locke and the American Revolution
Vining Plants, Weeds, and Summer Flowering Trees
"Get free or die in the attempt": Monticello's Enslaved Community and the Underground Railroad
Hamilton and Burr: The Duel
Edit Hern Fossett and Her Family
James Hubbard Escapes Monticello
Bees, Peonies, and Warm-weather Vegetables
Thomas Jefferson and Religion with History As It Happens
Edward Coles Challenges Thomas Jefferson on Slavery
Big Bone Lick: Birthplace of American Paleontology
April Tulips and Flowering Trees
How an Interracial, Interfaith Family Became Tied to Monticello
"The Ravages of the Small Pox": Jefferson and Inoculation
The Education of Martha Jefferson Randolph
March Traditions - Bare Root Plants and Spring Ephemerals
"The Interests of Science!": Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Benjamin Rush
Thomas Jefferson and the Founding of the University of Virginia
"One of the Most Estimable Characters on Earth": Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson
"A better man cannot be" - Jefferson and Monroe
A Rich Spot of Earth — Sowing
John and Priscilla Hemmings
An Excellent School of Humility
Introducing A Rich Spot of Earth — Seeds
The Almost-death Life Mask of Thomas Jefferson
Impressment and War
Sacajawea
A Washington Fish Tale
Fort Mandan
Those Other Western Expeditions
Thankful for Education: Stories of Learning and Empowering from Monticello
The “Calamitous” Citizen Genet
Turkeys as National Birds? Benjamin Franklin and the Great Seal of the United States
Music and Monticello's Enslaved Community
The Grangers of Monticello
"Atoms of Life"
"Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession”: Thomas Jefferson’s Education
The Getting Word African American Oral History Project
Fire! at Monticello
Jefferson's Cabinet Curiosities
Madame de Tessé
A Crusade for Monticello
The Louisiana Purchase and Its Legacies
James Callender and His Controversial Political Writings
Thomas Jefferson and the Corps of Discovery
Liberté, Unité, Egalité
The Declaration and the Committee of Five
Thomas Jefferson’s Two No Good, Very Bad Days
Elizabeth Hemings: Matriarch of the Hemings Family
The Life of Uriah Phillips Levy
The Libraries of Monticello
The Barbary Pirates of the Mediterranean
A Visit to Remember
Music and the Monticello Household
Peter Hemings, an Enslaved Master Brewer
“Half Virginian, Half French”: Food at Monticello
The Life of Israel Gillette Jefferson
The Life of Peter Jefferson
Granddaughter Cornelia Jefferson Randolph
The Influence of English Gardens at Monticello
Theft at Monticello
Monticello's Iconic Great Clock
A Tea Room Repair
The Levy Family Preserves Monticello
A Woman of Extraordinary Ability: The Remarkable Journey of Elizabeth House Trist
Salome and Religious Freedom
Archaeology at Site 6
The 1827 Dispersal Sale
Thomas Jefferson Drives Fast
Favorite Quotes from History
Robert Hemings’s Manumission
“Idle Ramblers Incapable of Application” — The 1825 Riots at the University of Virginia
A Summary of Public Service
Monticello's Tulip Poplars
The Merry Affair
Uncovering the Vanished Monticello Plantation
Jefferson and Madison
Jack Jouett's Ride
Gilbert Stuart and the "Edgehill" Portrait
Jefferson's Eyeglasses
"The First Wish of My Heart": Virginia Trist's English Guitar
Jupiter Evans
The Murder of George Wythe
Monticello Maps
"Mr. Jefferson tells large Stories"
"A Necessary of Life"
Freedom, 8 Cents at a Time – the Story of Moses Williams
Jefferson and the Library of Congress
George Ticknor Visits Monticello
Life In the Plantation Fields of Monticello
The Dynamic Duo of Fiske and Marie Kimball
William Monroe Trotter Battles "Birth of a Nation"
A Difficult Visit: Anna Maria Thornton
Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
A Tragic Marriage: Charles and Ann Cary Bankhead
Thomas Jefferson, a Personal View by Alan Alda
Jefferson and the Early Diplomatic Corps
Visitor accounts of Thomas Jefferson
The Brother Gardeners
Jefferson and the Megalonyx
Vegetables and Seasoning in Early American Southern Cuisine
Early American Southern Cuisine
New CD: Music from the Jefferson Collection
Religion in The Election of 1800
Virginia's Dissenters and the Statute for Religious Freedom
A More Perfect Constitution
Jefferson's Words: Three Letters on the new U.S. Constitution
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, November 13, 1787
Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787
Monticello's Tulip Poplar
Jefferson's Embargo
10 Questions for Thomas Jefferson
The Past, Present, and Future of Monticello
Monticello's Tours for Children and their Families
Sam Waterston Calls New Citizens to Action
Putting Jefferson's Debt in Today's Terms
Restoration of Monticello's Dependencies
Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787
Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Tesse, March 20, 1787
The Monticello Plantation Database: Using Databases to Uncover History
Broom of the Cowdenknowes
Symphony No. 3 In G Major: III Menuet and Trio by Josef Haydn
Monticello Music: A Brief Introduction
Overture from 'Love in a Village: A Comic Opera' by Thomas Arne
Over the Hills and Far Away from 'The Beggar's Opera'
Money Musk
Sonata #4, Opus 2, Preludido, by Archangelo Corelli
Sonata #4, Opus 2, Giga, by Archangelo Corelli
Sonata #4, Opus 2, Allemande, by Archangelo Corelli
Sonata #1 from XII Solos, Opus 2 by Antonio Vivaldi
From Symphony No. 66 In B Flat Major: Finale by Josef Haydn
Environmental Hazards, Eighteenth-Century Style
Jefferson and Eyeglasses
"All eyes are opened . . . to the rights of man"
Exporting Jefferson's Legacy
Brief Introduction to Jefferson on Religion
Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom
Query 17, Religion, Notes on the State of Virginia
Jefferson's Jan. 1, 1802 letter to Danbury Baptist Association
Jefferson's April 21, 1803 letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush "on the Christian religion"
Jefferson revising Jefferson: two excerpts from the Notes on the State of Virginia
Helping Jefferson's Words Live On
Restoring Monticello's Dome room
Preserving America's Historic Plants
The Declaration of Independence read by Bill Barker
Jefferson's "rough Draught" of the Declaration
Visitors to Monticello: What They Really Thought
A Culinary Independence: Jefferson for July 4th
Thomas Jefferson and Religion
Restoration of Monticello's North All-Weather Passageway