Four years after Smithsonian Magazine published photos of Shannon LaNier, a Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson, dressed like his ancestor, many have mixed feelings about […] ...

In theory, since the family has now acknowledged that Sally Hemings bore several of Thomas Jefferson’s children, their descendants should be eligible to join the 2,000-plus waiting list for the ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his ...

Still, Nelb said, there were fascinating nuggets of information she didn’t know about the family, which included Aaron and Caroline Highgate as well as their three children: Ada, Fredrick and ...

Monticello is going woke — and trashing Thomas Jefferson’s good name in the process. The hilltop mansion designed by Jefferson himself, once preserved as a tribute to the author of the ...

Four years after Smithsonian Magazine published photos of Shannon LaNier, a Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson, dressed like his ancestor, many have mixed feelings about […] ‘Who Blackened ...