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 Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

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.

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

She was the daughter of the half-white slave Elizabeth Hemings and, allegedly, Jefferson’s father-in-law, John Wayles. Jefferson inherited her shortly after her birth in 1773; his personal notes ...

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 ...

The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover and mother of six of his children, has gone from scandal to romance to the subject of historical and scientific investigation. All of ...

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 ...