OPINION: “Removing a Thomas Jefferson statue is just a performative action to circumvent having informed discussions on race in America,” writes William L. McIlwain, IV. Pulitzer Hall is the home of ...

Time has established the unsettling fact that Thomas Jefferson was a slave holder who had an unwilling relationship with an enslaved woman by the name of Sarah “Sally” Hemings. Centuries later, more ...

He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves. By Richard Sandomir Six ...

History has often hidden the relationship between Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings, but new renovations at Jefferson's Monticello estate uncovers their story. The name of Sally Hemings will no longer ...

Until now, the slaves who lived at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate, existed largely in the background. On Saturday, Monticello unveiled new exhibits designed to amplify hundreds of ...

The news of slave owners raping or carrying on full—not entirely consensual relationships with their slaves is not exactly a surprise to Black folk. But it’s a history many Americans conveniently ...

In a tweet shared Monday, NPR referred to Thomas Jefferson's repeated rapes of Sally Hemings — the enslaved black woman who birthed six of the former president's children — as a "relationship." ...

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The past, they say, is a foreign country, and none, perhaps, more foreign to modern eyes than the Monticello of Thomas Jefferson and his slaves. It was a place where a woman could own her half-sister, ...

A new exhibition at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate in Charlottesville, Va., displays artifacts from Sally Hemings, in her living quarters. Jefferson fathered six of her children. (Thomas ...

As part of a restoration initiative to interweave Monticello's dynamic history, a new exhibit at Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate gives humanity... Jefferson's Monticello Makes Room For Sally ...