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.
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 ...