A commission of scholars issued a report yesterday challenging an earlier study that had indicated Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. After a year of work, the ...

The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by him, is put under the microscope in a new documentary series. As the image comes ...

No evidence Jefferson said: 'When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty' Some social media users shared the quote in early 2025 to express dissatisfaction with U.S. President Donald Trump ...

'Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S. president, including the start of his relationship with Sally Hemings ...

Mrs. Harriet Tanner Lepper, 89, of Jefferson City, passed away Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at her home. She was born Wednesday, October 3, 1934 in Jefferson City, a daughter of the late Harry C. and ...

British tennis player Harriet Dart has apologized after asking the chair umpire to tell her opponent to put on deodorant because she “smells really bad.” ...

Sally Hemings might be a household name these days, but we still know so little about the relationship between Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Yet, Hemings endures as a figure of endless fascination ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one ...

James Hemings, in particular, happens to be a glaring omission from culinary history books. But thanks to historians and anthropologists alike, there is a wealth of new information about America ...

In Act 2 of “The Reclamation of Madison Hemings,” a Charles Smith play that is a good deal more visceral than its academic title suggests, a character named Madison Hemings, played at American ...