Earlier this year, as part of the Mountaintop Project, curators and restoration staff at Monticello began examining letters, invoices, packing lists and account books to restore Jefferson’s private ...

The ghosts of those who spent their lives in bondage to the third president of the United States wander under the shadow of Monticello, but now some of their stories are coming more fully into the ...

Until now, the slaves who lived at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate, existed largely in the background. On Saturday, Monticello unveiled new exhibits designed to amplify hundreds of ...

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 ...

• The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom. The floor tiles and ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom. The ...