A new exhibit at the Monticello estate recognizing Sally Hemings is a major step in transforming public history by ending the myth that her relationship with Thomas Jefferson was a love affair, an ...

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 ...

'Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S. president, including the start of his relationship with Sally Hemings ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his ...

Did Sally Hemings, Jefferson’s French-speaking bedmate and well-organized keeper of his private chambers, also serve as his guide and counselor—his Egeria? The question is, from the evidence ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings: A Novel Stephen O'Connor. Viking, $28 (624p) ISBN 978-0-525-42996-8. O'Connor (Orphan Trains) delves with great acuity and depth into the mind of Thomas ...

There are two storylines in Parks’s play. One takes place in 1790 and centers on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson (a reedy-voiced Gabriel Ebert) and Sally Hemings (Sheria Irving), the ...