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Three years after the Thomas Jefferson Foundation celebrated her addition to its board, acclaimed Jefferson historian Annette Gordon-Reed has resigned. It is a significant loss for the board ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...
Don’t miss the exhibit dedicated to Sally Hemings, mother to six of Jefferson’s children, which relates poignant stories told by her son Madison and other family members.
Gordon-Reed has a law degree and a bachelor’s degree yet, apparently without a Ph.D. or even an M.A., is now teaching history at Harvard. Gordon-Reed made a major splash with Thomas Jefferson and ...
The Ross County Historical Society is looking for old photos from African-American families. There are families with lineage from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. CHILLICOTHE ― Sometimes all ...
Monticello, which is owned and operated by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, a private nonprofit group, has dealt with difficult questions before, if not always willingly. For decades, it presented ...
While Jefferson was in France, he sent for his 8-year-old daughter, whom he had he left behind in Virginia. Accompanying his daughter was Sally Hemings, his slave and the half-sister of his ...
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.
Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his ...
“Thomas Jefferson” is the first docuseries in the History Channel’s “History Honors 250,” which will focus on people, innovations, heroes and achievements that have made this country ...
SALLY & TOM - Silver Spring, MD EPA Round House Theatre | Bethesda, MD AUDITION DATE Monday, February 3, 2025 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E) BREAK: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM APPOINTMENTS To schedule an appointment ...