On the return shuttle, you’ll pass the family-owned and operated cemetery where Thomas Jefferson and the direct descendants ...
The Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.
But these aren’t random eyes. Many of them belong to descendants of Robert Hemmings, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved valet, who lived with him in Declaration House. As Jefferson declared all men ...
He started working with the Smithsonian, expanding his series to the US and photographing the descendants of Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a suffragist famous ...
Thomas Jefferson first came to Williamsburg to attend William & Mary in March 1760. Until April 1762, Jefferson lodged and boarded in the building known today as the Sir Christopher Wren Building. He ...