A Madison peace and social justice organization held a vigil Friday honoring Eston Hemings Jefferson and reflecting on his legacy in the city.

In November 1998, a short DNA study titled “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child” was published in the prominent British weekly publication Nature. The title misled. The study showed merely that ...

WASHINGTON -- Critics renewed attacks yesterday on findings of a genetic study that indicated Thomas Jefferson was the father of his slave's child. In 1802, a year after becoming president, Jefferson ...

On Saturday, Thomas Jefferson’s descendants voted against accepting descendants of slave Sally Hemings into the family organization, claiming there was insufficient evidence that Jefferson fathered ...

In a book due out Thursday, eminent scholars say it’s unlikely that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings’ children, disputing a decade’s worth of conventional wisdom that the author of the ...

THE timing, for Clintonites, could not have been better. An article in the new issue of Nature magazine makes it pretty clear that Thomas Jefferson, America's third president, did indeed sire at least ...

A group of Thomas Jefferson’s descendants decided Sunday that DNA tests and historic evidence are not enough to admit relatives of Sally Hemings, a Jefferson slave, as bona fide members of their ...