If you know the name Angelica Schuyler, you just might be a fan of “Hamilton,” where she stole the show by belting out “Satisfied.” And the musical just might have given you the impression Angelica ...

Downtown Madison’s streets turn into storytelling stages this summer, thanks to the Wisconsin Historical Society’s newly ...

These trends have taken a toll on boys. If we’re unwilling to identify any specific people in the past to declare they lived ...

When the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked the Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, a group of 13 prestigious scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, to ...

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 ...

Did Sally Hemings, Jefferson’s French-speaking bedmate and well-organized keeper of his private chambers, also serve as his guide and counselor—his Egeria? The question is, from the evidence ...

FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, Conn. Friendly's ice cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake built the home in 2014. Blake, who co ...

'Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S. president, including the start of his relationship with Sally Hemings ...

Jefferson himself fathered six children by Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman whom he raped. Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men ...

Photo supplied, 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.

When we think of Thomas Jefferson, our third president, many would cite his penning of the Declaration of Independence’s iconic phrases promising a country in which “all men are created equal ...