While a genetic link with Jefferson's family has been shown in only one of Sally Hemings' sons, Eston, many of the other families assert they are related, too.

Disputing Jefferson’s liaison with Sally Hemings is not an idea that is taken seriously by modern scholars. For starters, Randolph Jefferson couldn’t have fathered her first child (who was conceived ...

Harvard University will relinquish photographs of enslaved people to the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, S.C., in a settlement reached on Wednesday, May 28.

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.

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello is betting yes.

Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal chattel slavery occurred.

Let us leave aside for the moment the fact that Jefferson was too busy impregnating the teenager he enslaved, Sally Hemings, to free anyone.

It’s the story of Sally Hemings and her relationship with Thomas Jefferson in the days leading up to his death on the Fourth of July in 1826.

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy continues to haunt.

Higher Education Youngkin wants controversial U-Va. board member to resign, people familiar say Bert Ellis, appointed by the governor in 2022, has so far refused to step down, the people said.

Though Thomas Jefferson consistently objected to slavery in writing, he enslaved roughly 600 people, including Sally Hemings, with whom he had six children.

As the sixth great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, LaNier co-authored the 2002 award-winning book Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family with photojournalist ...