Thomas Jefferson’s DNA sheds new light on his relationship with Sally Hemings and supports the longstanding conclusion that ...

It took 15 years to sequence Thomas Jefferson’s DNA—and the result silenced two centuries of denial.

Learn how DNA extracted from locks of Thomas Jefferson's hair have confirmed that the third president of the U.S. fathered ...

For more than two centuries, countless insiders and academics have claimed that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally ...

A hair found in Thomas Jefferson‘s Bible has linked the third President of the United States to Sally Hemings — an enslaved woman working in his household. Centuries old rumors have swirled regarding ...

It’s a 15-year detective story that involves archaeologists, genealogists, molecular geneticists, and historians, stretching ...

If It most were anyone else, we wouldn’t be debating it.

The co-author of a new book says there is a “99.9% chance” that the former president fathered children with a woman he ...

A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In History by a Hair, Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson.

DNA recovered from Thomas Jefferson’s hair adds new evidence that he fathered children with Sally Hemings at Monticello.

James Callender first alleged that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave, Sally Hemings, more than 200 years ago. A century and a half ago, one of those children, Madison Hemings, stated ...

Centering Sally Hemings as a Founding Mother exposes how American democracy was built through the unrecognized, racialized and gendered labor of Black women whose lives made its ideals possible. “The ...