but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas Jefferson had an illicit relationship with his slave mistress, Sally Hemings, that bore him children. Jefferson ...

The first eight months of 1802 were mercifully dull for President Jefferson ... the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified ... (Of six children, only two daughters remained.) ...

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy continues to haunt.