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 ...

nearly 20 years before Jefferson was elected president. Sally Hemings remained with Thomas Jefferson until his death on July 4, 1826. Jefferson’s will freed the remaining Hemings children ...

A&E The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by him, is put under the microscope in a new documentary series. As the image ...

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello ...

One takes place in 1790 and centers on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson (a reedy-voiced Gabriel Ebert) and Sally Hemings (Sheria Irving), the enslaved woman who bore him at least six ...

So, once a trained lawyer and law professor, Gordon-Reed laid out the evidence in a 1997 book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, that persuasively debunked longstanding ...

Madison Hemings' parents were Sally Hemings (1773-Sept. 6, 1835) and Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826). The month and day of Sally Hemings' birth are not known. April 13 was the 281st ...