In 1795 Thomas Jefferson was in the middle of a four-year vacation from public office. Having stepped down as secretary of state at the end of George Washington’s first term, and not yet elected as ...

He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves. By Richard Sandomir Six ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ownership rests at the base of the American blueprint. Our nation’s framers were not just proprietors of land and humans, they also controlled the narrative. One of America’s most well-known ...

Almost 35 years ago, Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is Old News, ...

Watching the coverage of the Obama family in the White House, one can't help but feel a certain media giddiness to be able to report on all these new "firsts." But to say that this family is the first ...

Few arenas have become as politicized in recent years as local school boards. Debates prompted by mask mandates, Black Lives Matter protests and LGBTQ education, among other issues, have brought ...

BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. — When the first phase of the 34-year restoration of Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson’s private retreat in rural Virginia, is celebrated Friday, it will reveal more than the third U ...

ATTENDED THE SPECIAL CEREMONY. THE OLDEST LIVING DESCENDANT OF SALLY HEMINGS HAS NOW BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE WALL OF FAME HERE AT PITTSBURGH. WESTINGHOUSE ACADEMY. I REALLY AM GRATEFUL, AND IT WOULDN’T ...