Eight years ago, the play "Thomas and Sally" sparked peaceful in-person protests, an open letter co-signed by almost 1,800 people and a police confrontation, blighting the reputation of Marin Theatre.

Almost 35 years ago, Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is Old News, ...

A SOLO PLAY: a powerfully moving, one-woman drama set at Monticello in the days before Thomas Jefferson's death, written by ...

Archaeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that is believed to have been the living quarters of Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who historians believe gave birth ...

As the country slowly, surely comes to grips with its slaveholding past, one of its most iconic buildings is set to do the same. Suggested Reading Everything We Know About The Sherrone Moore Scandal ...

The metatheatrical new work follows a contemporary theatre company rehearsing a play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. As opening night nears, the playwright—who also stars as Sally—grapples ...

All Men Are Created Equal. Or so Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence. It’s kind of weird then, to know that Jefferson owned slaves. And it’s even weirder to realize that one of ...

“Sally Hemings was better traveled than most Americans, so we want to tell a story about her that doesn’t limit her to Jefferson’s property,” said Gary Sandling, a vice president of the Thomas ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost 2 centuries–until DNA evidence ...

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 ...