Sally, as most now know, was Sally Hemings, a woman Jefferson owned, having inherited her, her mother and siblings when his father-in-law, John Wayles, died in 1773. That was the year Hemings was ...

Some have believed it, some haven't, some have fingered Jefferson's nephews, Peter and Samuel Carr, as responsible for Sally Hemings' light-skinned children. However, DNA tests in 1998 knocked the ...

One of America’s most well-known narratives – the relationship between President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings – first made national news as a political scandal. The enemies ...

It is now widely understood that my ancestor Sally Hemings, an enslaved black woman, was the intimate companion of Thomas Jefferson for nearly four decades. Monticello, the Virginia plantation ...

Dr. Eugene A. Foster, a pathologist who used DNA testing to show Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings, has died in Virginia. NYC toddler survives 3-story plunge ...

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 ...

FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, Conn. Friendly's ice cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake built the home in 2014. Blake, who co ...

Performed by a shoestring theater troupe that unimaginatively calls itself the Good Company, “Pursuit” tells the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and keeps asking whether this ...