A man reads a plaque about Sally Hemings at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s estate in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, June 16, 2018.

The presidency is no stranger to scandal, dating back to when Thomas Jefferson dealt with allegations of a long-standing sexual relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.

On June 16, 2018, descendants of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson reunited to help unveil the newly discovered living quarters of Hemings and her children. Alex Wong / Getty Images file ...

Sally Hemings — and her relativesJefferson's concubine part of remarkable mixed-race slave family. By FRITZ LANHAM, Chronicle News Services Nov 9, 2008.

The real, historical Thomas Jefferson never wrote anything about Sally Hemings, his slave and companion for decades. But she comes to life in a complex new novel from author Stephen O'Connor.

Having spent the past five years immersed in research on the Jefferson and Hemings families for two historical novels I wrote, I was thrilled to learn that Sally Hemings's room at Monticello will ...

But this was, very likely, the room inhabited by Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who bore six of Jefferson’s children, a woman about whom little is known, who lived her life as Jefferson’s ...

If Sally Hemings were still with us, she would be the poster child of the #MeToo movement. Such speculation is the stuff of revisionist presidential history, and a new exhibit at Monticello ...

<p>Sally Hemings (1773-1835), was a slave at Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Monticello, pictured, and was the third president&#8217;s mistress, according to a DNA analysis in 1998.</p><p>Hemings was the ...

Sally Hemings (Tara Pacheco) tries to imagine everything that is happening to her in ‘Thomas and Sally’ by Thomas Bradshaw. (Photo: Kevin Berne) And because of the play’s length, we have time to ...