CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The room — brick-floored, plaster-walled, empty — is simple. The life it represents was anything but. The newly opened space at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s palatial ...

A new exhibition at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate in Charlottesville, Va., displays artifacts from Sally Hemings, in her living quarters. Jefferson fathered six of her children. (Thomas ...

Thomas Jefferson's home "Monticello" in Charlottesville, Virginia. A landmark exhibition that addresses former President Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated relationship with Sally Hemings, one of his ...

You cannot see Thomas Jefferson’s mansion, Monticello, from the small room burrowed into the ground along the south wing of his estate. When the door is closed, you can’t see anything at all, because ...

Thomas Jefferson's biography got significantly more complicated when DNA evidence linked him to the descendants of Sally Hemings, a slave on his... 'Monticello' Tells Untold Story Of Sally Hemings ...

Sally Hemings, the enslaved mistress of founding father Thomas Jefferson, has finally been granted her own tribute at Monticello, the sprawling Virginia estate of the late president. The controversial ...

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. -- A new exhibit about Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's mistress and slave, opened at Monticello this weekend. Hemings gave birth to several of Jefferson’s children and many of ...

As part of a restoration initiative to interweave Monticello's dynamic history, a new exhibit at Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate gives humanity... Jefferson's Monticello Makes Room For Sally ...

As the country slowly, surely comes to grips with its slaveholding past, one of its most iconic buildings is set to do the same. Monticello, the estate where President Thomas Jefferson lived ...

Until now, the slaves who lived at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate, existed largely in the background. On Saturday, Monticello unveiled new exhibits designed to amplify hundreds of ...