thomas jefferson

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French connections: In his four years as the United States minister to France, Thomas Jefferson came to love all...

PICK: History in a Glass

Wine diplomacy: If you’re interested in celebrating presidents, pairing them with wine may be the way to go. In a nod...

PICK: Gallery of Curiosities

Urine for a treat: More than 40 contributors dug into the dark recesses of their art closets to assemble the...

Carving out history

Thomas Jefferson never wrote about the food at Monticello. His kitchens were stocked with ingredients from around the...

In brief

It’s the (new) law July 1 not only heralds the start of another hot summer, but it’s also when new laws go into...

In brief

‘Odd’ indictment The felony embezzlement charge against former City Council clerk Paige Rice, 37, for an iPhone and...

The View: River of history

Upon finding the source of the Jackson River, parent to the James River, Earl Swift writes in Journey on the James:...

Thomas Jefferson—beer nerd?...

Thomas Jefferson was not an IPA guy. We know this thanks to the scholarly efforts of J. Nikol Jackson-Beckham, a...

Still here

“It’s okay to be white.” The sentence that first started popping up on high school and university campuses in...

Montpelier’s exhibit could...

Amateur archaeologists had been kneeling in the dirt of the South Yard at James Madison’s Montpelier for hours,...