The weekend at Monticello will also feature the unveiling of new exhibits and restored spaces — most notably, a fascinating digital exhibit on Sally Hemings inside the south wing of Monticello, where ...
Dallas will soon get a first look at an expanded exhibit of relics that shed light on the life of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved concubine. If their relationship involved more than the ...
Lucia “Cinder” Stanton, a now-retired historian who began working there in 1968, recalled when little was said about the Hemings family. A tour guide might mention that Sally’s brother John was a ...
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 ...
History and art are always more nuanced than we can possibly imagine. “Sally & Tom” goes a long way toward illuminating both of them.
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 ...