Eugene Foster, the retired pathologist who orchestrated the DNA testing that showed Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of the children of slave Sally Hemings, died Monday at the University of ...

The Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

In his June 18 Critic’s Notebook, “Sally Hemings gets her recognition at Monticello” [Style], Philip Kennicott was vague about the link between the Hemings and Jefferson families. The DNA ...

So, once a trained lawyer and law professor, Gordon-Reed laid out the evidence in a 1997 book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, that persuasively debunked longstanding ...

John Wayles was born in Lancaster, England, in 1715. When a teenager, he sailed to Virginia, and there he acquired vast landholdings, over a hundred slaves, and enormous debts. By his first wife ...

The Start of Thomas Jefferson's Sexual Relationship with Enslaved, 14-Year-Old Sally Hemings Examined in New Doc 'Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between ...

Sally Hemings remained with Thomas Jefferson until his death on July 4, 1826. After Jefferson. Jefferson’s will freed the remaining Hemings children — Madison and Eston.

This summer, Sally Hemings of Monticello is getting her own room. Excavators are scraping away at the brick floor and fireplace of the windowless 14-2/3 x 13’ space, steps from Thomas Jefferson ...

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 ...

Sally Hemings might be a household name these days, but we still know so little about the relationship between Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.Yet, Hemings endures as a figure of endless fascination ...