Four years after Smithsonian Magazine published photos of Shannon LaNier, a Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson, dressed like his ancestor, many have mixed feelings about him embracing his ...

The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by him, is put under the microscope in a new documentary series.

Three Civil War veterans and descendants of former President Thomas Jefferson were honored Saturday afternoon.

This image from 1897 shows Oliver Highgate, one of the first Black residents to live in Midland, Michigan. Image was courtesy of The Midland County Historical Society.

The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved by him, is put under the microscope in a new documentary series. As the image comes ...

“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since. That was less true, perhaps, for a significant group of Black ...

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of the Adams references.

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil War. A new documentary on the third U.S. president considers the ...