CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...
Washington, D.C. (ABC7) — Just as the dome of the iconic Thomas Jefferson Memorial undergoes a 7-month update and an $8.2 million roof repair, two of Jefferson's descendants are calling for it to be ...
Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of outfit as his famous ancestor for a Smithsonian Magazine article, "American ...
Thomas Jefferson owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his life resulting in a more complete picture of the third ...
With the Fourth of July and the streaming debut of “Hamilton” renewing interest in America’s founders and the country’s legacy of slavery, TODAY’s Harry Smith visits Monticello, home of Thomas ...
According to a press release from Eastern Kentucky University, when Shannon LaNier was in the second grade, he informed his classmates one of his great grandfathers was President Thomas Jefferson. The ...
A group of Thomas Jefferson’s descendants decided Sunday that DNA tests and historic evidence are not enough to admit relatives of Sally Hemings, a Jefferson slave, as bona fide members of their ...
ABC’s Lionel Moise reports for ABC News Radio’s “Perspective” podcast. In recent weeks, statues of Confederate leaders have toppled to the ground amid nationwide protests, and Mississippi lawmakers ...
Opening Shot: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” narrator Devin E. Haqq recites from the Declaration of Independence as we see a shot of Independence Hall in ...
OAKLAND, Calif. -- It's a celebration a century in the making, but a story that goes back even farther. Meet Velma Williams. The Oakland woman turned 100 year old this Independence Day. And if that ...
Two descendants of Thomas Jefferson said they want his DC memorial replaced because it glorifies the third president as a Founding Father without providing context about him being a slaveholder, ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — The Jefferson Memorial is an iconic ...
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