I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of the Adams references. “While the two letters to his ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by ... A Final Takeoff The Art of Sausage Making Jose Gomez-Marquez Wants to Turn Every Doctor and Nurse into a Maker ...

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.

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

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 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 ...

Kennedy declared the event the greatest collection of talent ever brought together at the White House, “with the possible exception of when Thomas ... Jefferson is away from Monticello, Sally ...