Charlottesville, VA
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Jack Jouett
The Ride Nobody Remembers
Jack Jouett was at Cuckoo Tavern in Louisa County on the night of June 3, 1781, when he saw a column of British cavalry halt for a rest. Tarleton's green-jacketed dragoons were unmistakable, and Jouet...
Modern Voices
The Mountain and Its Contradictions
Visitors come to Monticello expecting the home of a founding father, and they find that, but they also find a plantation where over 600 people were enslaved over the course of Jefferson's lifetime. Th...
