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."

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Hand-wringers who decry the amount of mud slung about during the U.S. presidential campaign might want to avoid reading about the '00 campaign, the 1800 race.

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.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 4 (UPI) -- President George Bush was interrupted by protesters on a July 4 visit to what he called the "first Western White House" -- Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia.

PHILADELPHIA, May 27 (UPI) -- A special ultrasound technique that can spot areas of blood flow in the prostate may reduce unnecessary biopsies, U.S. researchers said.

WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy said Santa Monica (Calif.) High School is the winner of the department's 18th annual National Science Bowl.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, April 13, 2008.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 8 (UPI) -- The Federal Communications Commission has topped a Virginia organization's list of the most "egregious and ridiculous censors" in the United States for 2008.