If you know the name Angelica Schuyler, you just might be a fan of “Hamilton,” where she stole the show by belting out ...

Downtown Madison’s streets turn into storytelling stages this summer, thanks to the Wisconsin Historical Society’s newly ...

Did Sally Hemings, Jefferson’s French-speaking bedmate and well-organized keeper of his private chambers, also serve as his guide and counselor—his Egeria? The question is, ...

The ghosts of those who spent their lives in bondage to the third president of the United States wander under the shadow of Monticello, but now some of their stories ...

Sally Hemings is a name that is seldom seen in history books, yet one that forces many to confront our nation’s difficult past. Her story is often intertwined with American Founding Father ...

One of the enslaved people on his Virginia plantation, Monticello, was Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33.

In the last half of his life, Thomas Jefferson was influenced by two women: Martha Jefferson Randolph and Sally Hemings. Randolph was Jefferson’s eldest daughter and his eventual caretaker ...

So, once a trained lawyer and law professor, Gordon-Reed laid out the evidence in a 1997 book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, that persuasively debunked longstanding ...

Madison Hemings' parents were Sally Hemings (1773-Sept. 6, 1835) and Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826). The month and day of Sally Hemings' birth are not known.

The oldest living descendant of Sally Hemings has just been inducted into the Wall of Fame at Pittsburgh Westinghouse Academy.Watch the report from Homewood in the video above"I'm really grateful ...

Sally Hemings remained with Thomas Jefferson until his death on July 4, 1826. After Jefferson Jefferson’s will freed the remaining Hemings children — Madison and Eston.