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 ...

Three years after the Thomas Jefferson Foundation celebrated her addition to its board, acclaimed Jefferson historian Annette Gordon-Reed has resigned.

When the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked the Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, a group of 13 prestigious scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, to ...

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

Jefferson in his mid-40s began a physical relationship with Sally, his slave, sometime between 1787 and 1789, when she was 14 to 16 years old. Rumors that Jefferson fathered at least one child ...

Annette Gordon-Reed, a legal scholar and historian who has investigated the life of Thomas Jefferson, was named a MacArthur Fellow on Tuesday. The distinction from the MacArthur Foundation comes ...

Sally Hemings is a name that is seldom seen in history books, ... FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, ...

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 ...

Jefferson himself fathered six children by Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman whom he raped. Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of America’s Founding Fathers and ...

When we think of Thomas Jefferson, our third president, many would cite his penning of the Declaration of Independence’s iconic phrases promising a country in which “all men are created equal ...