Dr. Eugene A. Foster, a pathologist who used DNA testing to show Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings, has died in Virginia. NYC toddler survives 3-story plunge ...

Two new books about Thomas Jefferson are out, one fiction (Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor), one non-fiction (“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” by Annette ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover ... most straightforward and accurate insight into his relationship with Hemings when he described slavery as "a perpetual exercise of the ...

Four years after Smithsonian Magazine published photos of Shannon LaNier, a Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson, dressed ...

When I took the tour in 2020, I asked, “Is Sally Hemings buried there?” The shuttle driver’s answer was long-winded; it seems ...

The subjects themselves belong to various periods in history, from the late 18th century through to the modern day and span ordinary people as well as women of renown, including author Virginia Woolf, ...

Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third US president, shaped American democracy ...

As his new movie debuts, artist Titus Kaphar reflects on what it takes to arrive at forgiveness – and to share it with the ...