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

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...

Two descendants of Thomas Jefferson said they want his DC memorial replaced because it glorifies the third president as a Founding Father without providing context about him being a slaveholder, ...

According to a press release from Eastern Kentucky University, when Shannon LaNier was in the second grade, he informed his classmates one of his great grandfathers was President Thomas Jefferson. The ...

Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of outfit as his famous ancestor for a Smithsonian Magazine article, "American ...

A Black descendant of a founding father and early president of the United States dressed as his ancestor for a photo shoot published in the newest edition of Smithsonian Magazine. Shannon LaNier posed ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – By all accounts, it ...

Opening Shot: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” narrator Devin E. Haqq recites from the Declaration of Independence as we see a shot of Independence Hall in ...