Author: Monticello Podcasts

A report on Monticello’s efforts to restore and reinterpet the areas around and under the main house where Jefferson’s slaves lived and worked.

A Introduction to the work of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies.

A reading by Bill Barker of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, which Jefferson drafted in 1777 and was adopted by Virginia 1786.

A Brief introduction to five recordings of Jefferson documents on the subject of religion.

A reading by Bill Barker of Query 17, Religion, from Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia.

A reading by Bill Barker of Jefferson’s Jan. 1, 1802 letter to the representatives of the Danbury Baptist Association

A reading by Bill Barker of Jefferson’s April 21, 1803 letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush in which he outlines the merits of the Christian religion and contrasts them with classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Judaism.

An introduction to Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia with a reading by Bill Barker of two versions of part of Jefferson’s argument for religious tolerance and free inquiry from Query 17, Religion, of the Notes.

A look at the effort to publish all of Jefferson’s papers from his retirement from the presidency to his death in 1826.

Interview with with Robert L. Self, Monticello’s Architectural Conservator, on the restoration of Monticello’s Dome Room

Interview with Peggy Cornett, Director of Monticello’s Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants, on the effort to preserve and cultivate America’s historic plants

The Declaration of Independence read by Bill Barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson for Colonial Williamsburg