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 first American presidential sex scandal never went on trial, but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas Jefferson had an illicit relationship with his ...

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 ...

'Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman ...

NEW YORK — “To cut or not to cut? That is the question,” mocks an actor in Suzan-Lori Parks’s leaden, overworked “Sally & Tom.” While rehearsing a play within the play, she concedes ...