“I am very proud of my new country,” Hataw Saadi Taha said. “Especially on the Fourth of July.”

President Bush will speak this morning at Monticello at its 46th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony.

Attendance at President Bush’s Monticello appearance on the Fourth of July will be limited to an estimated 1,000 members of the public and security will be “heavy,” Monticello officials announced Monday.

Bush will be the featured speaker at Monticello’s annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony at the home of Thomas Jefferson.

Hollowed and withering, one of Monticello’s most famous trees will be taken down.

Entering the world of Thomas Jefferson will be less expensive during the month of June.

Monticello has selected a new leader for the first time in more than 20 years, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation announced Thursday.

In preparation for Monticello’s new visitors center that is expected to open in November, officials are closing the old center that sits off Route 20 in Albemarle County and dismantling the exhibition.

Hills — no, mountains — of books have been written about Thomas Jefferson. Here, in Jefferson country, the man and his legacy are as palpable as the grass covering the University of Virginia’s Lawn. So what, I asked myself, could Alan Pell Crawford’s new book, “Twilight at Monticello — The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson,” add to the store of knowledge already accumulated about his subject?