FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, Conn. Friendly's ice cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake built the home in 2014. Blake, who ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 4 -- Descendants of slave Sally Hemings, declaring they were tired of drawing hostile stares at gatherings hosted by white kin of Thomas Jefferson, said today that they will have ...

Watching the coverage of the Obama family in the White House, one can't help but feel a certain media giddiness to be able to report on all these new "firsts." But to say that this family is the first ...

Few American historical relationships are more controversial than that of third United States President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, who bore several of his children. In the Bay Area, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost 2 centuries–until DNA evidence ...