FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, Conn. Friendly's ice cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake built the home in 2014. Blake, who ...

Few American historical relationships are more controversial than that of third United States President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, who bore several of his children. In the Bay Area, ...

To help celebrate the 250 th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Wharton Center is producing a play by local playwright and librettist Sandra Seaton. “Sally: A Solo Play” is ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 4 -- Descendants of slave Sally Hemings, declaring they were tired of drawing hostile stares at gatherings hosted by white kin of Thomas Jefferson, said today that they will have ...

Archaeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that is believed to have been the living quarters of Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who historians believe gave birth ...

“Sally: A Solo Play” follows Hemings, a woman who was enslaved under former President Thomas Jefferson and is widely recognized as the mother of several of the founding father’s children, in the days ...