Almost 35 years ago, Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a ...

Gordon-Reed has a law degree and a bachelor’s degree yet, apparently without a Ph.D. or even an M.A., is now teaching history at Harvard. Gordon-Reed made a major splash with Thomas Jefferson and ...

Gayle Jessup White of Henrico County -- a descendant of the Hemings and Jefferson families -- is the new community engagement officer at Monticello.

Three years after the Thomas Jefferson Foundation celebrated her addition to its board, acclaimed Jefferson historian Annette Gordon-Reed has resigned. It is a significant loss for the board ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...

Don’t miss the exhibit dedicated to Sally Hemings, mother to six of Jefferson’s children, which relates poignant stories told by her son Madison and other family members.

For years, Monticello has researched and cultivated historical information on slavery and African-American life at Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. The information has long been available through ...

As a teen, Hemings traveled to France with Jefferson and then as an adult won freedom for four surviving children and lived out her final years with two of her children at a house in Charlottesville.

History is happening in Molly Beer's biography of the titular Schuyler sister, which explores the life of "Angelica" despite limited documentation.

This weekend, in the same Rotunda where he once rang the bell at UVa, audiences will sit down to hear the world premiere of a new musical setting of a ...