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 ...

jefferson and HEMINGS Williams: 'My story is their story, too': Gayle Jessup White, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, reclaims her heritage Michael Paul Williams Nov 24, 2021 0 1 ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

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 ...

In 2022, Annette Gordon-Reed posed outside the Conroe ISD school named in her honor. Gordon-Reed, a Conroe High grad, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her work on Jefferson and the Hemings family.