If you know the name Angelica Schuyler, you just might be a fan of “Hamilton,” where she stole the show by belting out ...

The new biography by Molly Beer explores Schuyler's life and relies heavily on letters written by, to and about her.

Almost 35 years ago, Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a ...

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.

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

This highly insightful study by Kukla (A Wilderness So Immense ), director of the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation, investigates Thomas Jefferson's relationships with women, from Elizabeth Moore ...

The administration’s targeting of international students is a return to a disgraced tradition of xenophobic anti-intellectualism.

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