For some decades now, we’ve had a strong emphasis on debunking the erstwhile heroes of the past. Granted, such reckonings are ...

What impact did Thomas Jefferson have on the genesis of US democracy? How did the third president double the country’s size, and what were his thoughts on slavery?

Harrison Ruffin Tyler was just three generations from the White House, since his father and grandfather both fathered children in their 70s. The chemical engineer helped preserve his family's legacy.

The Ross County Historical Society is looking for donations for their new local African-American history exhibit.

The group will continue to exclude descendants of Sally Hemings, a slave at Monticello with whom Jefferson has long been rumored to have had a sexual relationship. The group heeded a ...

She won the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “The Hemingses of Monticello,” which extended some of the work commenced in her pathbreaking “Thomas Jefferson and Sally ...

This summer, Sally Hemings of Monticello is getting her own ... And DNA carried by the descendants of Thomas Eston, Sally’s youngest son, is a good match for the Jefferson Y-chromosome.

In 1993, when Jordan invited some of her descendants to a Jefferson commemorative ... that Jefferson was the father of Eston Hemings, one of Sally Hemings’ sons. The tests strongly indicated ...

Madison Hemings' parents were Sally Hemings (1773-Sept ... claiming that they were also descendants of Hemings.” But Robert Atkins is a historian. He dug into the details and focused on getting ...

"After the revelations came out — the DNA test that linked Jefferson to Sally Hemings and her offspring — the descendants of Jefferson through Hemings made a claim to be a part of the Thomas ...

One famous case using Y-DNA is that of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in which Y-DNA of male descendants of Jefferson's father and male descendants of Sally Hemings matched. Mitochondrial DNA ...

Washington, Sally Hemings, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Emmett Till. They were greeted and addressed by Vice President Kamala Harris, who praised the descendants of “extraordinary ...