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Thomas Jefferson's nephew is buried in Nashville, and his DNA may shed light on whether Jefferson had children with the ...

In Act 2 of “The Reclamation of Madison Hemings,” a Charles Smith play that is a good deal more visceral than its academic title suggests, a character named Madison Hemings, played at American Blues ...

Beverly and Harriet had been permitted to "run away" in 1822, and the fact was noted in Jefferson's Farm Book. Madison Hemings, in his memoir, noted with some bitterness how his siblings had passed ...