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Matthew Reeves, Director of Archaeology at James Madison’s Montpelier, toured a reconstruction and archaeology project striving to learn more about how Civil War soldiers lived with, and oft…

Matthew Reeves talked about Confederate winter quarters during the U.S. Civil War. In the winter of 1863-64, a Confederate Army brigade from South Carolina camped in wooden huts on the groun…

Panelists talked about how slavery is represented and reconstructed at places like Thomas Jefferson’s estate, Monticello, and James Monroe’s home, Ash Lawn-Highland. They also discussed the …

James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, owned about a hundred slaves at Montpelier, his forty-six-hundred-acre estate in Orange County, Virginia, 90 miles south of the nati…