CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...

The letter was discovered in a Mississippi home. — -- A rare letter from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson is for sale for $325,000 after a Mississippi family found the letter in a box of ...

According to a press release from Eastern Kentucky University, when Shannon LaNier was in the second grade, he informed his classmates one of his great grandfathers was President Thomas Jefferson. The ...

A commission of scholars issued a report yesterday challenging an earlier study that had indicated Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. After a year of work, the commission ...

Julia Jefferson Westerinen was a proud Staten Islander, an accomplished artist, a nurturing teacher, an effective saleswoman, and a devoted mother. As a child, she dreamed of one day becoming a ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...

Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of outfit as his famous ancestor for a Smithsonian Magazine article, "American ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A new art exhibit at the Declaration House features descendants of Robert Hemmings, ...

April 13 was the 281st anniversary of the birth of Mary Lee Brady-Atkins’ great-great-great-grandfather. The same could be said for lots of people, but Brady-­Atkins’ ancestor was Thomas Jefferson.

He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves. By Richard Sandomir Six ...