Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas ...

Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S.

Much like fish-man romancer Elisa Esposito in Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, the role Hawkins snagged an Academy ...

A new actress is playing Mary Brown this time around.

while keeping hundreds of slaves on his plantation and having many children with his late wife’s Martha’s enslaved half-sister Sally Hemings. The paradoxical elements of the lifelong idealist ...

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 ...

Wells, journalist and women’s suffrage activist; Sally Hemings, the slave with whom Thomas Jefferson fathered six children; and Shirley Chisholm, the first Black congresswoman from New York and ...