No president is perfect and a job as complex as leading the United States brings about scandals is almost every ...

Jefferson, who traveled extensively for long periods, always happened to be in residence nine months before the birth of each of Sally Hemings's seven children. Some of Hemings's children were ...

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 ...

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.

America’s struggle with facts versus fabrication and truth versus conspiracy theories has been going on for centuries. Thomas ...

Dr. Eugene A. Foster, a pathologist who used DNA testing to show Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings, has died in Virginia. NYC toddler survives 3-story plunge ...

His 2014 painting, "Behind the Myth of Benevolence," for instance, peels away a portrait of Thomas Jefferson to reveal the ...

The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover and mother of six of his children, has gone from scandal to romance to the subject of historical and scientific investigation. All of ...

Sam Neill and British actress Carmen Ejogo star in this dramatization of the 38-year romantic relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Hemings (1773-1835), who was born a slave on his Monticello ...

And yet Jefferson, historians say, fathered up to six children by one of his mixed-race slaves, Sally Hemings. In his book Notes on the State of Virginia, he prophesied a race war in America and ...

Where do you come outon the great Sally Hemings mystery? MS. LEWIS: Oh, I blame the nephews. MR. WATTENBERG: You blame the nephews. MS. LEWIS: The family, in fact. MR. WATTENBERG: Well ...

At Monticello in Charlottesville, listen to a talk about the history of slavery at the estate and explore an exhibit all about Sally Hemings' life. Hemings was an enslaved woman at Monticello who ...