I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American ... the story of Alexander Hamilton’s affair with a married woman and subsequent ...

The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by him, is ...

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 ...

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 Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Few did as much as Jefferson to popularize it in the United States. So great was his love for the dessert that his recipe for it is the first known one ...

Separate but nowhere near equal. In theory, since the family has now acknowledged that Sally Hemings bore several of Thomas Jefferson’s children, their descendants should be eligible to join the ...

“Thomas Jefferson ... Sally Hemings is getting pregnant.” It might not have been intentional but, in 1803, Jefferson distracted public attention from the Hemings affair (“It was a ...