The Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

On the return shuttle, you’ll pass the family-owned and operated cemetery where Thomas Jefferson and the direct descendants ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...

Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman 30 years his junior Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

Thomas Jefferson has shades of the History docuseries ... recent years because of his history with slavery, along with the ...

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious ... whose Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the Hemings family changed Jefferson scholarship forever. Ms. Gordon-Reed is actually the most dispassionate of ...

The Thomas Jefferson Award is given each year to a member of the William & Mary family for significant service through his or her personal activities, influence and leadership. The highest honor given ...