The authors who have had the most influence in peddling this popular narrative are Fawn Brodie, whose best-selling “psychobiography“ Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974) wasn’t generally taken ...

It’s a contradiction that courses through White’s bloodstream and inhabits her DNA as a descendant of both Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the enslaved Black woman with whom he had at ...

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 ...

Jefferson in his mid-40s began a physical relationship with Sally, his slave, sometime between 1787 and 1789, when she was 14 to 16 years old. Rumors that Jefferson fathered at least one child ...

Sally Hemings is a name that is seldom seen in history books, ... FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, ...

The Start of Thomas Jefferson's Sexual Relationship with Enslaved, 14-Year-Old Sally Hemings Examined in New Doc 'Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between ...

Directed by Jon Hirsch, the six-part docuseries Thomas Jefferson is a comprehensive look at the life of the Founding Father who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, as well ...

By 1789, while serving as the U.S. minister to France, Jefferson, then in his mid 40s, had begun a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings, a 16-year-old enslaved woman owned by Jefferson (who was ...

Courtesy The History Channel/Glass Entertainment Group "Thomas Jefferson," a new three-night docuseries on the History Channel, premieres Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, on Presidents Day.

His 2014 painting, "Behind the Myth of Benevolence," for instance, peels away a portrait of Thomas Jefferson to reveal the face of Sally Hemings, a woman who Jefferson enslaved.

Critics focused on how Jefferson wrote the words “all men are created equal” but never freed his own slaves and started a relationship with LaNier’s direct matrilineal ancestor Sally Hemings ...

I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the late 1700s. It means a large family, in many countries, with four generations of relatives still alive, some of ...