Gayle Jessup White, who helped launch the new exhibits, is a descendant of Sally Hemings' brother and, through another ancestor, of Thomas Jefferson. White says Hemings' room would've been part of ...

Historians have made a discovery just in time for the July 4th holiday. They have found the living quarters for Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who bore six children to one of the country's ...

Sally Hemings Gets Her Own Room at Monticello A renovation at Thomas Jefferson’s estate will give the slave he likely fathered at least six children with a display in what may have been her quarters ...

The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom.

Historians have made a discovery just in time for the July 4th holiday. They have found the living quarters for Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who bore six children to one of the country's ...

Archaeologists at Thomas Jefferson's Virginia plantation, Monticello, are unearthing the room where Sally Hemings is believed to have lived, allowing for a new way to tell the story of the ...

More than 200 years after the first published item about the two appeared, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings are back in the news. As it was then, the coverage is international.

'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's Monticello Makes Room For Sally Hemings. Until now, the slaves who lived at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate, existed largely in the background.

Gayle Jessup White, who helped launch the new exhibits, is a descendant of Sally Hemings' brother and, through another ancestor, of Thomas Jefferson. White says Hemings' room would've been part of ...

A new exhibition at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate in Charlottesville, Va., displays artifacts from Sally Hemings, in her living quarters. Jefferson fathered six of her children. (Thomas ...