For more than 70 years, her bedroom was hidden. That’s because it was turned into a bathroom for tourists in 1941. Recently, historians reviewed how one of Jefferson’s grandsons described ...

The restoration to be completed will involve unmasking a bathroom installed in 1941 just steps from Jefferson's bedroom to reveal what the room really was: Sally Hemings's bedroom.

Monticello isn’t hiding Thomas Jefferson’s ties to slave Sally Hemings anymore. ... The bedroom, which was turned into a bathroom in 1941, was just steps from Jefferson’s room.

The room, just steps away from Jefferson’s bedroom was turned into a restroom in 1941 by caretakers. The relationship between Hemings and Jefferson was denied for decades by his White descendants.

Archaeologists at Thomas Jefferson's Virginia plantation, Monticello, are unearthing the room where Sally Hemings is believed to have lived, allowing for a new way to tell the story of the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson's bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom ...

A new book raises serious doubts about the allegation that Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings that produced one or more children. Entitled “The Jefferson ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Archaeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that has astounded even the most experienced social scientists: The living quarters of ...

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 ...

The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom.