The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...
Jefferson, who traveled extensively for long periods, always happened to be in residence nine months before the birth of each of Sally Hemings's seven children. Some of Hemings's children were ...
Separate but nowhere near equal. In theory, since the family has now acknowledged that Sally Hemings bore several of Thomas ...
The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.
The Sally Hemings story had been widely circulated in Jefferson’s lifetime and afterward, and the historian Fawn Brodie skillfully made the case for it in Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History ...
The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover and mother of six of his children, has gone from scandal to romance to the subject of historical and scientific investigation. All of ...
Dr. Eugene A. Foster, a pathologist who used DNA testing to show Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings, has died in Virginia. NYC toddler survives 3-story plunge ...
America’s struggle with facts versus fabrication and truth versus conspiracy theories has been going on for centuries.