MIDLAND, MI — For Tawny Ryan Nelb, the story began with a photograph. The professional archivist was researching the records of Midland-based St. John’s Episcopal Church in 2018 when she ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil War. A new documentary on the third U.S. president considers the ...

“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since.That was less true, perhaps, for a significant group of Black ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

Kaplan, an acclaimed biographer, is the author of the new book His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer Jefferson had addressed the topic of slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia ...