Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S.

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Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

Wells, journalist and women’s suffrage activist; Sally Hemings, the slave with whom Thomas Jefferson fathered six children; and Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Congresswoman from New York ...

This article was originally published on November 6, 2018. We’re republishing it today in case you want to spend your Presidents’ Day actually thinking about American presidents . One aspect ...