Her new book, Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, And A Descendant's Search For Her Family's Lasting Legacy," is out now. Gayle Jessup White, thank you so much for joining us. JESSUP ...

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 ...

With her new book “Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy” (Amistad, 288 pp., ★★★ out of four, out now), Gayle Jessup ...

The Myth of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. The sexual relationship lives on in books and film, despite a lack of verifiable evidence. By . Robert F. Turner. Share. Resize.

Sally Hemings remained with Thomas Jefferson until his death on July 4, 1826. After Jefferson Jefferson’s will freed the remaining Hemings children — Madison and Eston.

'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 ...

Sam Neill and Carmen Ejogo played Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in a four-hour television mini-series broadcast in 2000. The reality may be less scandalous than the show.

Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his ...

There are two storylines in Parks’s play. One takes place in 1790 and centers on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson (a reedy-voiced Gabriel Ebert) and Sally Hemings (Sheria Irving), the ...