Monument Lab Summit
“Origins and Outcomes of Our Nation’s Founding,” a keynote panel with Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Justin Garrett Moore, July 18, 2024.
Robert Hemmings’s Signature
Historians share the recent rediscovery of Robert Hemmings’s signature, a revelation confirming the literacy of the man that Thomas Jefferson enslaved as his valet.
This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations
An interview with historian Whitney Nell Stewart.
Piecing Together a Great Migration Story
How research and oral history helped to reconstruct one family’s Great Migration journey.
Mourning the Presidents
Panel discussion with Lindsay Chervinsky and Matthew Costello at the US National Archives in spring 2023.
The Power of Place
A June 2022 conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed, Clint Smith, and Darren Walker at Monticello.
Young Voices Rising
A panel discussion with Niya Bates, Justin G. Reid, Hannah Scruggs, and Gayle Jessup White.
The Presidency & Historic Preservation
A May 26, 2022 conversation hosted by the WHHA & The National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Innovative Approaches to Public Engagement with History
An April 29, 2022 discussion with writer Professor Honorée Fannone Jeffers and musician Dom Flemons.
Peter Hemings, an Enslaved Master Brewer
A Monticello podcast episode about slavery and beer-making told through the life of Peter Hemings, brewer, cook, and tailor enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.
Public History & Monticello
An April 18, 2022 conversation and lecture in Dr. Christa Dierksheide’s “Public History” course at UVA.
Archiving the Getting Word Project
A February 1, 2022 conversation with Jenna Owens for Monticello’s YouTube channel.
Legacies of Thomas Jefferson
A January 29, 2022 lecture to a Stamford, CT book club about how Americans remember Thomas Jefferson’s life and legacy.
From Charlottesville to Alabama
A November 1, 2021 lecture for the guide staff at Monticello.