Founded in 1819, Thomas Jefferson conceived and designed the University of Virginia as a unique “Academic Village” where students and professors would live and learn together. One of his last contributions to American public life, the university represents an enduring legacy of Jefferson’s vision of the importance of education to democracy.
Discover more on these topics at Listening to America
California
Great Plains
Holiday
Connemara
Mississippi
America at 250
Arizona
Holidays
Colorado
Maine
Iowa
Missippi
Alaska
Montana
Georgia
histor
Edward S. Curtis
Florida
John Steinbeck
John Wesley Powell
Books
Hemingway
Illinois
Civil Rights
Minnesota
Lewis and Clark
Atomic West
Idaho
Hawaii
National Parks
native Amerians
Canada
Massachusetts
John Adams
Humanities
Carl Sandburg
Colorado River
England
Airstream
Atlanta
Hopi
Missouri
Louisiana
Cuba
Alabama