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 ...

He left nearly all members of the Hemings family to his daughter Martha Jefferson. Several sources assert that Sally Hemings was a half-sister to Martha, both fathered by John Wayles, which is ...

The story of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved lover and mother ... because they ignore the sexual exploitation and family losses inscribed across the Hemings family's history and across the ...

Two new books about Thomas Jefferson are out, one fiction (Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor), one non-fiction (“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” by Annette ...