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

Researchers say the findings further support long-standing accounts from Hemings’ descendants about Jefferson’s children.

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

A centuries-old question over Thomas Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved, is back in the ...

DNA study confirms Thomas Jefferson fathered children with enslaved Sally Hemings - America’s third president and one of its founding fathers kept more than 600 slaves ...

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.

Kurin's journey began in 2011 when he learned that a single strand of hair was discovered in one of Jefferson's Bibles at his ...

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

A centuries-old lock of hair has now done what rumors, records, and earlier DNA tests couldn't: firmly tie Thomas Jefferson ...

A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered ...

The burial came as the Smithsonian released DNA research it said provides “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings.

A team of researchers at the Smithsonian Institution claim to have resolved the centuries-old historical and scientific ...