Pruning Thomas Jefferson's Family Tree. Historians' Report Attacks Theory That 3rd President Fathered Slave's Children ...

Commentary: Sally Hemings, a slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, is rumored to have borne him one or more children as a result of a sexual union between the two that began in Paris while he was U.S ...

On June 16, 2018, at Thomas Jefferson’s ancestral home, Monticello, descendants of Hemings and Jefferson reunited to help unveil, among other important exhibits, the newly discovered living ...

An exhibit at the Monticello plantation is being applauded by many descendants for acknowledging the life of Sally Hemings, and for sharing the truth behind her relationship with Thomas Jefferson.

Standing on the steps of Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson, about 100 of his descendants posed for a family portrait. The array of hues was remarkable. After months of controvers… ...

Those families live on to this day. The exhibition features video testimony from current descendants of Jefferson’s slave families. On of them is Bill Webb, whose great-great-great grandfather Brown ...

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.

The controversy concerned Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. Since his days in office, there had been rumors that he had fathered six children with Hemings, that four of those children ...

In theory, since the family has now acknowledged that Sally Hemings bore several of Thomas Jefferson’s children, their descendants should be eligible to join the 2,000-plus waiting list for the ...

NEW YORK — In the early summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson worked away in the second floor parlor of a boardinghouse in downtown Philadelphia. Wielding language he would call “plain and firm ...

Why it matters: It's part of a new art exhibit reframing the story of Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia by spotlighting his enslaved valet, Robert Hemmings ...