So, Brenda Hafera, a Heritage Foundation vice president, and President Donald Trump are concerned that museums like the Smithsonian Institution are promoting a "false revisionist version of ...

So, Brenda Hafera, a Heritage Foundation vice president, and President Donald Trump are concerned that museums like the Smithsonian Institution are promoting a "false revisionist version of ...

Sally Hemings is a name that is seldom seen in history books, yet one that forces many to confront our nation’s difficult past. Her story is often intertwined with American Founding Father ...

Their “ownership” was transferred to Wayles’s daughter, Martha Jefferson, who was a half-sister to James and Sally. Husbands had total sway over their wives’ property in the 18th century so Betty ...

One of the enslaved people on his Virginia plantation, Monticello, was Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33. Hemings gave birth to six of ...

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.

'I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in early American history,' says Jefferson biographer Annette Gordon-Reed.

'I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in early American history,' says Jefferson biographer Annette Gordon-Reed.

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of Am ...

After the death of Thomas Jefferson’s wife, Martha, Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by the family. Hemings, who was biracial, was Martha’s half-sister.