Topic: People Profiles
Media › image
Bust of Thomas Jefferson
Bust of Thomas Jefferson created by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1789.
Media › image
Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully
Painting of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully
Media › image
‘Edgehill’ portrait of Thomas Jefferson
Painting of Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart
Lesson Plan
Enslavement and the Enslaved at Monticello
In this lesson, lives of enslaved people living at Monticello will be explored, analyzed, and documented by students. Enslaved people such as Sally Hemings and her family, along...Lesson Plan
A Deplorable Entanglement: Picturing Race and Gender at Monticello
Students will use image and document analysis to gain an understanding of slave life in general, slave life specifically at Monticello, and how the concepts of race and...Lesson Plan
Jefferson & Washington: The Pursuit of Happiness
At the time of George Washington’s death in 1799, the relationship between ‘Founding Brothers’ Thomas Jefferson and George Washington had disintegrated, primarily as the result of a personal...Lesson Plan
Roles of African-Americans and their lives on Mulberry Row
To analyze primary resources, identify plantation duties and roles, and interpret a memoir of slave descendant.
Article
Brief Biography of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is famous for writing the Declaration of Independence and for being the third president of the United States. Jefferson had many other interests and identities. He loved architecture and designed his own house. He loved science and studied the natural world. He was a plantation owner. He was a father and grandfather to his large family. Jefferson lived a very long and full life.
Media › image
Thomas Jefferson
Copy of a portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale; copy by James L. Dick.
Media › image