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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Monticello historians are relatively confident that Sally Hemings lived in one of two rooms along the south wing, based on an encounter between Jefferson’s grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph and ...

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 ...

Sally Hemings and Me I first became interested in President Thomas Jefferson and his famous mountaintop home, Monticello, in third grade, when I read a series of biographies about prominent Americans.

<p>Sally Hemings (1773-1835), was a slave at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, pictured, and was the third president’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 ...