It’s black! It’s creepy! And it’s crawling over the Jefferson Memorial! It’s biofilm — a microbial invasion of uncertain origin that has begrimed the stone surface of one of the nation ...

And in Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America, Catherine Kerrison, (Ballantine, 448 pp., ★★★ out of four) tells us the stories of three of Thomas ...

An invasion of microbes is spreading a black film over parts of Thomas Jefferson's memorial. The Washington Post says the National Park Service has not found out how to kill it.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gayle Jessup White about her book, Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy.

Two descendants of Thomas Jefferson said they want his DC memorial replaced because it glorifies the third president as a Founding Father without providing context about him being a slaveholder.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial opened in 1943, but the effort to clean and restore it is using some 21st-century technology. 1/13 The restoration of the Jefferson Memorial will last until May 2020.

Just as the dome of the iconic Thomas Jefferson Memorial undergoes a 7-month update and an $8. 2 ... who is white, is a sixth-generation descendant of Jefferson and LaNier, who's black, ...

“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since.That was less true, perhaps, for a significant group of Black ...

The main cemetery for white people was fenced to keep unscheduled people out. The graves were marked by raised headstones, flat markers, obelisks, and what appeared to be a tomb from a distance.