CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The room — brick-floored, plaster-walled, empty — is simple. The life it represents was anything but. The newly opened space at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s palatial ...

Until now, the slaves who lived at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate, existed largely in the background. On Saturday, Monticello unveiled new exhibits designed to amplify hundreds of ...

"Sally Hemings was better traveled than most Americans, so we want to tell a story about her that doesn't limit her to Jefferson's property," said Gary Sandling, a vice president of the Thomas ...

In Defense of Thomas Jefferson The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal by William G. Hyland Jr. Thomas Dunne/St Martin’s, 320 pp., $26.95 Since the hack journalist and thwarted office-seeker James Callender ...

He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves. By Richard Sandomir Six ...

A room in Monticello's South Wing contains an immersive digital experience about her life through the words of one of her sons, Madison. The unveiling of this and other exhibits on enslaved families ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...

Daniel P. Jordan, who as president of the foundation that owns Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation in Virginia, broadened its educational mission — and, perhaps most significant, commissioned a ...

The room in Monticello’s south wing where Sally Hemings is believed to have lived. “It will portray her outside of the mystery,” said another museum historian. = Sam Neill and Carmen Ejogo portrayed ...

“Sally Hemings was better traveled than most Americans, so we want to tell a story about her that doesn’t limit her to Jefferson’s property,” said Gary Sandling, a vice president of the Thomas ...