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 ...

She was the daughter of the half-white slave Elizabeth Hemings and, allegedly, Jefferson’s father-in-law, John Wayles. Jefferson inherited her shortly after her birth in 1773; his personal notes ...

Recently, the History Channel televised a six-part series about Thomas ... Jefferson secretly (more like an open secret) fathered a second set of children with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.

Hark, who died in 2022, was a descendent of President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. A private elevator opens to a spacious foyer, which boasts marble floors and bespoke white oak paneling.

It’s the story of Sally Hemings and her relationship with Thomas Jefferson in the days leading up to his death on the Fourth of July in 1826. Olmscheid explains the production has an important ...

Written by acclaimed East Lansing playwright Sandra Seaton, this world premiere production explores Sally Hemings’ reflections of her relationship with Thomas Jefferson.” Season subscriptions ...

Monticello will soon offer a guided tour experience to learn about the complicated relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Through the story of these two founders, the tour examines ...

Among his many restoration efforts, he once oversaw the re-roofing of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Born in Butler, Pennsylvania, he was the son of W. Ralph McCracken, who ran a farm ...