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by Laura A. Macaluso (Author)
Tour Thomas Jefferson's Virginia, from Monticello to the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond, with a guide that "mixes historical background with how-tos" (Daily Press).
Few prominent Americans are as associated with a place as Thomas Jefferson is with Virginia. The heart of "Jefferson Country" is his house and plantation at Monticello, but Jefferson traveled the breadth of his home state, from his time at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg to the new state capital at Richmond and his retreat and plantation at Poplar Forest, near Lynchburg.
While spending time in the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Jefferson was inspired to write his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia. Historian Laura Macaluso illustrates Jefferson's life story, and his many endeavors as a scholar and statesman, in this guide to the state he held dear.
Author Laura A. Macaluso details Jefferson's place not just as the third president of the United States. She shares what you need to know to tour the rich sites associated with Jefferson in a newly-released book, "A Guide to Thomas Jefferson's Virginia. Bristol Courier
Author Biography
Laura A. Macaluso, PhD, researches and writes about art, cultural heritage and material culture. She has degrees in art history and the humanities from Southern Connecticut State University, Syracuse University in Italy and Salve Regina University. In 2018, The Public Artscape of New Haven: Themes in the Creation of a City Image will be published by McFarland & Company, and Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World, of which she is the editor, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield Inc. This is her third book for The History Press.
