NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The National Book Award for non-fiction was bestowed on Annette Gordon-Reed in New York Wednesday night for her book, "The Hemingses of Monticello."

CHARLOTTESVILLE, N.C., July 26 (UPI) -- Dr. Eugene A. Foster, a pathologist who used DNA testing to show Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings, has died in Virginia.

LONDON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- British researchers say Thomas Jefferson may have been the first U.S. president with Jewish roots. Using cells donated by descendants of Jefferson's paternal uncle to determine if Jefferson had fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings, geneticists a

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Winifred Bennett, the Virginia woman who proposed using DNA to determine if U.S. President Thomas Jefferson fathered black children, has died at the age of 71.

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LEXINGTON, Ky., June 1 (UPI) -- A Kentucky thoroughbred horse owner is appealing The Jockey Club's ruling he cannot name a horse after a slave of President Thomas Jefferson. Garrett Redmond, historian and owner of the Ballycapple farm in Paris, Ky., has filed a freedom of speech lawsuit

President Bush convened an economic forum at Waco's Baylor University, home of the Bears, instead of Chicago's United Center, home of the Bulls, then made a spe

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 (UPI) -- Commentary: Sally Hemings, a slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, is rumored to have borne him one or more children as a result of a sexual union between the two that began in Paris while he was U.S. minister to France.

The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in northern Florida is ablaze. Published reports indicate that as of the weekend more than 10,000 acres had been scorched in one fire and that a second fire was spreading.