Almost 35 years ago, Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a ...

'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 ...

The sixth-great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings has shared an image of himself posing alongside the third US president as part of a photo series.

James T. Callender, a journalist and pamphleteer, reported that Thomas Jefferson had an extramarital affair with his own young slave, Sally Hemings. Portrait of Sally Hemings. (Photo: Biography/A&E) ...

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 ...

The 1998 DNA testing published by Nature proved that Sally Hemings’s youngest son had a Jefferson father. It’s certainly possible that Thomas Jefferson was that father, but many scholars disagree.

It might not have been intentional but, in 1803, Jefferson distracted public attention from the Hemings affair (“It was a huge scandal,” says Ms. Gordon-Reed) with the Louisiana Purchase ...

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 ...