An insatiable desire to learn her family’s story landed Gayle Jessup White at Monticello, a place she describes as “the epicenter of the American paradox.” The paradox, of course, is that ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Few did as much as Jefferson to popularize it in the United States. So great was his love for the dessert that his recipe for it is the first known one ...

Gordon-Reed investigated evidence about the rumored relationship between Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, and she wrote the book “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American ...

FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas ... was unofficially freed by Jefferson’s daughter Martha after his passing. “Though enslaved, Sally Hemings helped shape her ...

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 ...

The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks ... the three nights of this series. Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings is closely scrutinized, as is his ...

“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have ... which is something of a fantasia on the Sally Hemings story. Why is that noteworthy?

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 ...

This summer, Sally Hemings of Monticello is getting her own room. Excavators are scraping away at the brick floor and fireplace of the windowless 14-2/3 x 13’ space, steps from Thomas Jefferson ...

By Salamishah Tillet Sally Hemings might be a household name these days, but we still know so little about the relationship between Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Yet, Hemings endures as a figure ...