Leslie Greene Bowman, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, lauded White and “Reclamation” during a Nov. 16 book launch event at Monticello.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A local NAACP activist is accusing Sen. Joe Morrissey, D-Richmond, of threatening violence against him during a meeting about proposed casino legislation, quoting Morrissey as saying: “I’ll ...

Built by Thomas Jefferson’s carpenter and long inhabited by the Fife family, including a husband and wife who each served as the Charlottesville mayor, the Oak Lawn estate can be had for $4.2 ...

Hamilton, then 34, was from New York City, was an urban and brash financial risk-taker. Jefferson, then 46, was from Virginia, was an agrarian, cerebral, bookish, a slave-owner.

Removing a Statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall The 19th-century depiction of Jefferson is on track to be removed from the City Council’s chamber after a push by its members. By James Barron ...