ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. --Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia mountaintop home, is a popular tourist destination, but only in recent years have tour guides been allowed to give the whole story.

The first log slave quarters with dirt floors to be rebuilt at Thomas Jefferson's home were formally unveiled Saturday at Monticello, and descendants of more than 100 slaves from the third president's ...

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 ...

Monticello curators are celebrating a milestone in their mission to restore the historic site to the vision Thomas Jefferson had for his now-world famous estate. With the launch of a new mobile app ...

Monticello, the historic slave plantation owned by Thomas Jefferson, will be restored to tell the story of a particular slave that had a long-term relationship with the Founding Father. In a report ...

A view of Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1950. Getty Images Sally Hemings, who was one of the 607 slaves kept by Thomas ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote the famous words "all men are created equal," but he also owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his life. His Virginia plantation called Monticello is being renovated to ...

Thomas Jefferson's Virginia plantation is being renovated to shed more light on the enslaved people who lived and worked there. One of the most notable of those slaves was Sally Hemings. Thomas ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote the famous words "all men are created equal," but he also owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his life. His Virginia plantation called Monticello is being renovated to ...