diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 74f13c0..090807b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- `ParamDB.path` to retrieve the database path.
+- `ParamDB.latest_commit` to retrieve the latest commit entry.
+
 ## [0.8.0] (June 9 2023)
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/paramdb/_database.py b/paramdb/_database.py
index a77e317..07c9071 100644
--- a/paramdb/_database.py
+++ b/paramdb/_database.py
@@ -144,10 +144,16 @@ class Root(Struct):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, path: str):
+        self._path = path
         self._engine = create_engine(URL.create("sqlite+pysqlite", database=path))
         self._Session = sessionmaker(self._engine)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
         _Base.metadata.create_all(self._engine)
 
+    @property
+    def path(self) -> str:
+        """Path of the database file."""
+        return self._path
+
     def commit(self, message: str, data: T) -> int:
         """
         Commit the given data to the database with the given message and return the ID
@@ -198,10 +204,9 @@ def load(self, commit_id: int | None = None, *, load_classes: bool = True) -> An
         if data is None:
             raise IndexError(
                 f"cannot load most recent commit because database"
-                f" '{self._engine.url.database}' has no commits"
+                f" '{self._path}' has no commits"
                 if commit_id is None
-                else f"commit {commit_id} does not exist in database"
-                f" '{self._engine.url.database}'"
+                else f"commit {commit_id} does not exist in database" f" '{self._path}'"
             )
         return json.loads(
             _decompress(data),
@@ -217,6 +222,18 @@ def num_commits(self) -> int:
             count = session.execute(select_stmt).scalar()
         return count if count is not None else 0
 
+    @property
+    def latest_commit(self) -> CommitEntry | None:
+        """Latest commit added to the database, or None if the database is empty."""
+        max_id_func = func.max(_Snapshot.id)  # pylint: disable=not-callable
+        select_max_id = select(max_id_func).scalar_subquery()
+        select_stmt = select(
+            _Snapshot.id, _Snapshot.message, _Snapshot.timestamp
+        ).where(_Snapshot.id == select_max_id)
+        with self._Session() as session:
+            latest_entry = session.execute(select_stmt).mappings().first()
+        return None if latest_entry is None else CommitEntry(**latest_entry)
+
     def commit_history(
         self,
         start: int | None = None,
diff --git a/tests/test_database.py b/tests/test_database.py
index 04bc4b2..0f055f0 100644
--- a/tests/test_database.py
+++ b/tests/test_database.py
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ def test_create_database(db_path: str) -> None:
     assert os.path.exists(db_path)
 
 
+def test_path(db_path: str) -> None:
+    """Database path can be retrieved."""
+    param_db = ParamDB[Any](db_path)
+    assert param_db.path == db_path
+
+
 def test_commit_not_json_serializable_fails(db_path: str) -> None:
     """Fails to commit a class that ParamDB does not know how to convert to JSON."""
 
@@ -271,6 +277,32 @@ def test_num_commits(db_path: str, param: CustomParam) -> None:
     assert param_db.num_commits == 10
 
 
+def test_empty_latest_commit(db_path: str) -> None:
+    """An empty database has a latest_commit of None."""
+    param_db = ParamDB[CustomStruct](db_path)
+    assert param_db.latest_commit is None
+
+
+def test_latest_commit(db_path: str, param: CustomParam) -> None:
+    """The database has the correct value of latest_commit after each commit."""
+    param_db = ParamDB[CustomParam](db_path)
+    for i in range(10):
+        # Make the commit
+        message = f"Commit {i}"
+        start = time.time()
+        sleep_for_datetime()
+        commit_id = param_db.commit(message, param)
+        sleep_for_datetime()
+        end = time.time()
+
+        # Assert latest_commit matches the commit that was just made
+        latest_commit = param_db.latest_commit
+        assert latest_commit is not None
+        assert latest_commit.id == commit_id
+        assert latest_commit.message == message
+        assert start < latest_commit.timestamp.timestamp() < end
+
+
 def test_empty_commit_history(db_path: str) -> None:
     """Loads an empty commit history from an empty database."""
     param_db = ParamDB[CustomStruct](db_path)