Topic: Sally Hemings

New exhibit looks at Jefferson in new light

GulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 17 days ago
Smithsonian Institution revisits the lives of six slave families who worked on third US president's plantation. Thomas Jefferson wrote "all men are...

New exhibit explores Jefferson's slave ownership

NBC 7 Boise (KTVB) - 17 days ago
Thomas Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal" to declare U.S. independence from Britain, yet he was also a lifelong slave owner who freed only ...

Thomas Jefferson's slave ownership examined in new exhibit

NBC 10 Roanoke (WSLS) - 19 days ago
As the Smithsonian continues developing a national black history museum, it's offering a look at Thomas Jefferson's lifelong slave ownership ...

Don't Mention Founding Fathers and Slaves

The Root - 19 days ago
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Biography: Sally Hemings

Helium - 462 days ago
Perhaps no other name from our country?s slave history brings the same immediate recognition as that of Sally Hemings. He was also the father of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, making she and Sally Hemings half sisters. When Sally was 3, John ...

All in the Family: President Thomas Jefferson's Y Chromosome

hubPage - 481 days ago
In January 2000, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (TJMF) issued a report detailing an investigation resulting from a 1998 Nature article by Dr. Eugene Foster that claimed to have demonstrated that President Jefferson was the father of Eston Hemings, Sally Hemings' youngest ...

Tom and Sally the Jefferson Hemings paternity debate

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 583 days ago
Long before Americans learned about the sexual escapades of their 20th-century presidents-Warren Harding, John Kennedy, and Bill Clinton were the chief offenders-there was the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. They were based on the fact that an attractive house slave ...

The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners

AP News - 1024 days ago
Details on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners and judges' commentsDetails on the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism: David Barstow of The New York TimesBarstow won his second Pulitzer for reporting on military analysts who acted as television war commentators and their conflicts ...