Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Jefferson has long been rumored to have fathered children with Sally Hemings. New genetic evidence strengthens that ...

On the Seine’s left bank in the 7th Arrondissement stands a 10-foot-tall bronze statue, not to a French hero, but to Thomas ...

America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson, fathered two children with the woman he enslaved, a new DNA study reveals, resolving one of the nation’s oldest and most contentious debates. Jefferson was ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — ...

How should Americans understand Thomas Jefferson’s promise of liberty alongside his enslavement of others? Monticello ...

New DNA evidence from Richard Kurin's book "History by a Hair" reportedly confirms Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings at Monticello. A historian shared insights.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that "the two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized ...

Archaeologists have been studying Monticello, the 18th-century plantation and home of Thomas Jefferson, for decades. Yet they’re still making new discoveries. Most recently, researchers unearthed the ...

Thomas Jefferson was the nation's third president, our first ambassador to France, an inventor and master gardener. He may also have been America's first wine connoisseur — something historians are ...