Student tour guides emphasised Jefferson the slaveholder rather than Jefferson the founding father. Conservative faculty and ...

The president of the university founded by Thomas Jefferson is being asked to stop quoting Thomas Jefferson. A Friday letter signed by 469 students and professors objected to University of Virginia… ...

George Washington died in 1799 from acute epiglottitis, a throat infection. 2.John Adams' grave in Quincy, Massachusetts: ...

Thomas Jefferson’s grave marker lists him as “Father of the University of Virginia,” but the original obelisk lies at a different school, hundreds of miles away from Charlottesville. After ...

Thomas Jefferson’s Grave Site. Once you’re done exploring the grounds and you’ve done all the tours that interest you, you’ve probably been here for about 3 hours already.

Mary Lee Brady-Atkins visits the gravesite of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello with another Jefferson descendant who gave Brady-Atkins a tour in 2023. Massoud Hossaini | TribLive .

Thomas Jefferson asked that his gravesite commemorate three of his accomplishments, including writing Virginia’s statute for religious freedom. Christopher Hollis/Wikimedia Commons.