Researchers Say They’ve Found the Truth About Thomas Jefferson
A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Getty. The Black Women Changing the DAR
More and more women of color are joining the 136-year-old organization.
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Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.
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