“Tell that story, baby,” my great-aunt told me, “That great American story. Sock it to ‘em, kid.”
Welcome! I am Andrew M. Davenport, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.
Read my writings, watch some of my talks, and please feel free to contact me. I’d love to hear from you.
Research Interests:
American Literature and Art History
Oral History
Public History
Slavery and Emancipation
Social History
Note: The quilt featured in the “footer” is “A Joint Effort” by Cynthia Pettway and Mary Ann Pettway, March 2018, and purchased from the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective in Boykin, Alabama, in June 2018. The quilts featured in the background on the website are late 19th-century quilts made in Richmond, Virginia, by Alice K. Ford (1857-1942),.