'Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman ...

There are a lot of ways for actors to hold hands. Whether companionably, lustfully, bashfully, they often give audiences warm fuzzies. But in the play-within-a-play of "Sally & Tom," the gesture can't ...

Few American historical relationships are more controversial than that of third United States President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, who bore several of his children. In the Bay Area, ...

FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, Conn. Friendly's ice cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake built the home in 2014. Blake, who ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost 2 centuries–until DNA evidence ...

As the country slowly, surely comes to grips with its slaveholding past, one of its most iconic buildings is set to do the same. Suggested Reading The Great American Debate: Will The Democrats Ride ...

A commission of scholars issued a report yesterday challenging an earlier study that had indicated Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. After a year of work, the commission ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom.