CHARLOTTESVILLE — The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom. The ...

History and art are always more nuanced than we can possibly imagine. “Sally & Tom” goes a long way toward illuminating both of them.

In the last half of his life, Thomas Jefferson was influenced by two women: Martha Jefferson Randolph and Sally Hemings. Randolph was Jefferson’s eldest daughter and his eventual caretaker. Hemings, a ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 4 -- Descendants of slave Sally Hemings, declaring they were tired of drawing hostile stares at gatherings hosted by white kin of Thomas Jefferson, said today that they will have ...

The room in Monticello’s south wing where Sally Hemings is believed to have lived. “It will portray her outside of the mystery,” said another museum historian. = Sam Neill and Carmen Ejogo portrayed ...