Mr. Jefferson's Telescope: A History of the University of Virginia in One Hundred Objects

Thomas Jefferson considered the University of Virginia to be among his finest achievements—a living monument to his artistic and intellectual ambitions. Now, on the occasion of the University's bicentennial, Brendan Wolfe has assembled one hundred objects that, brought together in one fascinating book, offer a new, sometimes surprising history of Jefferson’s favorite project.

Mr. Jefferson’s Telescope begins with the years leading up to the University's 1819 founding and continues to the tri...