"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to ...

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 ...

Two new books about Thomas Jefferson are out, one fiction (Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor), one non-fiction (“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” by Annette ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

Speakers at the "Beyond Slavery" conference spoke on the following topics related to sexual violence in the era of slavery and Jim Crow. The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover ...

The Age of Experiments/The Pursuit of Happiness” Friday, February 7 at 9:00 pm In part two: Jefferson was responsible... Read More ...