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 ...

The ghosts of those who spent their lives in bondage to the third president of the United States wander under the shadow of Monticello, but now some of their stories are coming more fully into the ...

You cannot see Thomas Jefferson's mansion, Monticello, from the small room burrowed into the ground along the south wing of his estate. When the door is closed, you can't see anything at all, because ...

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.

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 ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The room — brick-floored, plaster-walled, empty — is simple. The life it represents was anything but. The newly opened space at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s palatial ...

Until now, the slaves who lived at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate, existed largely in the background. On Saturday, Monticello unveiled new exhibits designed to amplify hundreds of ...

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.

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.

CHARLOTTESVILLE — 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.