The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured ...

Instead, NPR aired a segment discussing Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration’s primary author, and his relationship with Sally ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

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 ...

When I took the tour in 2020, I asked, “Is Sally Hemings buried there?” The shuttle driver’s answer was long-winded; it seems ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that's made President Trump's three presidential contests a wild ride.

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