The first American presidential sex scandal never went on trial, but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas Jefferson had an illicit relationship with his ...

Thomas Jefferson' takes a ... it was proven by DNA tests done on their descendants, two of whom appear in the documentary ...

On the return shuttle, you’ll pass the family-owned and operated cemetery where Thomas Jefferson and the direct descendants of Thomas and his wife Martha are buried. There is a waiting list of ...

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 ...

Shannon LaNier, a TV news anchor, has complex feelings about being descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally ... Gardner started tracking down descendants of famous Europeans—Napoleon, Charles ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the most influential of the many images painting during Jefferson's lifetime. It has been publicly ...