Visitors To Monticello After 1826
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Visitors To Monticello After 1826
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Author : Kristin Onuf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Visitors To Monticello After 1826 written by Kristin Onuf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Monticello (Va.) categories.
Partial list of important people who visited Monticello after 1826. Includes politicians, celebrities, and diplomats.
Monticello Since 1826
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Author : James A. Bear (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Monticello Since 1826 written by James A. Bear (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Historic preservation categories.
Saving Monticello
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Author : Marc Leepson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2002-03-06
Saving Monticello written by Marc Leepson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-06 with History categories.
The complete history of Thomas Jefferson's iconic American home, Monticello, and how it was not only saved after Jefferson's death, but ultimately made into a National Historic Landmark. When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826, he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final goodbye to Monticello itself. The house their illustrious patriarch had lovingly designed in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, his beloved "essay in architecture," was sold to the highest bidder. So how did it become the national landmark it is today? Saving Monticello offers the first complete post-Jefferson history of this American icon and reveals the amazing story of how one Jewish family saved the house that became their family home. With a dramatic narrative sweep across generations, Marc Leepson vividly recounts the turbulent saga of this fabled estate. Monticello's first savior was the mercurial U.S. Navy Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy, a sailor celebrated for his successful campaign to ban flogging in the Navy and excoriated for his stubborn willfulness. In 1833, Levy discovered that Jefferson's mansion had fallen into a miserable state of decay. Acquiring the ruined estate and committing his considerable resources to its renewal, he began what became a tumultuous nine-decade relationship between his family and Jefferson's home. After passing from Levy control at the time of the commodore's death, Monticello fell once more into hard times. Again, a member of the Levy family came to the rescue. Uriah's nephew, a three-term New York congressman and wealthy real estate and stock speculator, gained possession in 1879. After Jefferson Levy poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into its repair and upkeep, his chief reward was to face a vicious national campaign, with anti-Semitic overtones, to expropriate the house and turn it over to the government. Only after the campaign had failed, with Levy declaring that he would sell Monticello only when the White House itself was offered for sale, did Levy relinquish it to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in 1923. Pulling back the veil of history to reveal a story we thought we knew, Saving Monticello establishes this most American of houses as more truly reflective of the American experience than has ever been fully appreciated.
A Companion To Thomas Jefferson
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Author : Francis D. Cogliano
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-09-15
A Companion To Thomas Jefferson written by Francis D. Cogliano and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with History categories.
A Companion to Thomas Jefferson presents a state-of-the-art assessment and overview of the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson through a collection of essays grounded in the latest scholarship. Features essays by the leading scholars in the field, including Pulitzer Prize winners Annette Gordon-Reed and Jack Rakove Includes a section that considers Jefferson’s legacy Explores Jefferson’s wide range of interests and expertise, and covers his public career, private life, his views on democracy, and his writings Written to be accessible for the non-specialist as well as Jefferson scholars
Visitors To Monticello
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Author : Merrill D. Peterson
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1989
Visitors To Monticello written by Merrill D. Peterson and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Many visitors over the generations have recorded their impressions of Monticello and its creator. These writings, especialy those from Jefferson's lifetime, preserve important details about him and the house and grounds that might otherwise have been lost. In Visitors to Monticello, Merrill D. Peterson provides a collegtion of thirty-five of these writings dating from 1780 to 1984.
Monticello Since 1826
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Author : James Adam Bear
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Monticello Since 1826 written by James Adam Bear and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Historic preservation categories.
Thomas Jefferson
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Author : Francis D. Cogliano
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-14
Thomas Jefferson written by Francis D. Cogliano and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-14 with History categories.
This first major study of Thomas Jefferson's reputation in nearly fifty years is concerned with Jefferson and history-both as something Jefferson made and something that he sought to shape.Jefferson was acutely aware that he would be judged by posterity and he deliberately sought to influence history's judgment of him. He did so, it argues, in order to promote his vision of a global republican future. It begins by situating Jefferson's ideas about history within the context of eighteenth-century historical thought, and then considers the efforts Jefferson made to shape the way the history of his life and times would be written: through the careful preservation of his personal and public papers and his home, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia.The second half of the book considers the results of Jefferson's efforts to shape historical writing by examining the evolution of his reputation since the Second World War. Recent scholarship has examined Jefferson's attitudes and actions with regard to Native Americans, African slaves, women and civil liberties and found him wanting.Jefferson has continued to be a controversial figure; DNA testing proving that he fathered children by his slave Sally Hemings being the most recent example, perhaps encapsulating this best of all. This is the first major study to examine the impact of the Hemings controversy on Jefferson's reputation.Key Features*The first study of Jefferson's reputation to be published since 1960*Considers the impact of slavery on Jefferson's reputation and Jefferson's relationship with slavery*Explores the history of the Sally Hemings controversy
Monticello
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004*
Monticello written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004* with Monticello (Va.) categories.
Visitor guide to Monticello, with information on Thomas Jefferson, house and plantation grounds, together with highlights of its history, and the people who lived and worked on it.
Those Who Labor For My Happiness
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Author : Lucia C. Stanton
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012
Those Who Labor For My Happiness written by Lucia C. Stanton and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of which was made possible by the work of slaves. At the center of this transition has been the work of Lucia "Cinder" Stanton, recognized as the leading interpreter of Jefferson's life as a planter and master and of the lives of his slaves and their descendants. This volume represents the first attempt to pull together Stanton's most important writings on slavery at Monticello and beyond. Stanton's pioneering work deepened our understanding of Jefferson without demonizing him. But perhaps even more important is the light her writings have shed on the lives of the slaves at Monticello. Her detailed reconstruction for modern readers of slaves' lives vividly reveals their active roles in the creation of Monticello and a dynamic community previously unimagined. The essays collected here address a rich variety of topics, from family histories (including the Hemingses) to the temporary slave community at Jefferson's White House to stories of former slaves' lives after Monticello. Each piece is characterized by Stanton's deep knowledge of her subject and by her determination to do justice to both Jefferson and his slaves. Published in association with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
The Cambridge Companion To Thomas Jefferson
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Author : Frank Shuffelton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-22
The Cambridge Companion To Thomas Jefferson written by Frank Shuffelton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion forms an accessible introduction to the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. Essays explore Jefferson's political thought, his policies towards Native Americans, his attitude to race and slavery, as well as his interests in science, architecture, religion and education. Contributors include leading literary scholars and historians; the essays offer up to date overviews of his many interests, his friendships and his legacy. Together, they reveal his importance in the cultural and political life of early America. At the same time these original essays speak to abiding modern concerns about American culture and Jefferson's place in it. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of Jefferson, and is designed for use by students of American literature and American history.