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 ...
The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured political moment.
No president is perfect and a job as complex as leading the United States brings about scandals is almost every ...
America’s struggle with facts versus fabrication and truth versus conspiracy theories has been going on for centuries.
His 2014 painting, "Behind the Myth of Benevolence," for instance, peels away a portrait of Thomas Jefferson to reveal the face of Sally Hemings, a woman who Jefferson enslaved. Now, with his ...
exposing Jefferson’s relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings. While the Hemings revelations were indeed accurate and turned out to be facts, Callender engaged in significant malicious ...
The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers. In fact, the election of 1800 ...