Monticello Guide Olivia Brown looks at the life of Peter Jefferson, a Virginia planter, surveyor, county justice, member of the colonial legislature, loyal citizen of the British Empire, and father of the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

Monticello Guide Laura-Michal Balderson discusses Cornelia Jefferson Randolph's relationship with her grandfather, Thomas Jefferson, and highlights her mechanical drawings of the University of Virginia and Monticello's first floor.

Monticello Guide Olivia Brown looks at Jefferson's travels to several famed English pleasure gardens and their influence on the gardens he designed at Monticello.

In this episode of our Mountaintop History podcast, Monticello guide Olivia Brown talks with Diane Ehrenpreis, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, and Lucy Midelfort, Architectural Conservator, about what uncovered in Monticello's Tea Room.

Monticello Guide Andrew Miles discusses the mechanisms of the clock, as well as its memorable imperfections, and Gardiner Hallock, Monticello’s Vice President for Architecture, Collections, and Facilities, tells us about the recent restoration efforts aimed at preserving the clock.

In this episode of our Mountaintop History podcast, Monticello guide Olivia Brown talks with Diane Ehrenpreis, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, and Lucy Midelfort, Architectural Conservator, about what uncovered in Monticello's Tea Room.

Monticello Guide Holly Haliniewski looks at the Levys, who owned and preserved Jefferson's mountaintop for nearly a century.

In this episode of our Mountaintop History podcast Monticello guides Kyle Chattleton and Olivia Brown look at "Site 6," where archaeologists have uncovered thousands of artifacts that are providing new insights into the lives of the enslaved families who once lived there.

Monticello Guide Alice Wagner retells this New Testament story and connects the painting — and other religious paintings at Monticello — to Thomas Jefferson’s commitment to religious freedom in the United States, specifically his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

In this episode of our Mountaintop History podcast, Kyle Chattleton takes a deeper look at these sales and talks with Andrew Davenport, Public Historian at Monticello and Manager of the Getting Word African American Oral History Project, about what happened to many of the enslaved individuals after the dispersal sale, the important connection to the Getting Word Project, and about how they and their families’ lives are testaments to the triumph of the human spirit.