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Using a few key sources (visual, written, and musical) students explore Jefferson's multiple talents and interests, culminating with the creation of a Jefferson "Pinterest" wall and gallery walk.

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Jefferson grew hundreds of varieties of fruits and vegetables in his various gardens at Monticello.

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A resource guide geared towards middle school classrooms, designed to accompany the 20-minute film Thomas Jefferson’s World...

Lesson Plan
A resource guide designed for advanced placement high school and college classrooms, created to accompany the film THOMAS JEFFERSON’S WORLD...

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Tobacco labels appeared on packages of tobacco or snuff. Within a decade of Virginia’s founding, tobacco was the colony’s major export. This label depicts white gentlemen relaxing in leisure while...

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This article in a Maryland newspaper was reprinted from an English source. It acknowledges the fact that by the mid-eighteenth century, many English people had become aware of the importance...

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This detail from a map of South Carolina shows an indigo plant. Enslaved people cultivated the indigo plants which produced a valuable blue dye used in making paper, paints, and...

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The ‘Albemarle Pippin’ was one of Thomas Jefferson’s two favorite apples....