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| The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Report of the Scholars Commission |
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Review from Carolina Academic Press
In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from across the country to carefully examine all of the evidence for and against the allegations that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by Sally Hemings, one of his slaves, and to issue a public report ...Read more C-SPAN Records Book Release at National Press Clubbook Q&A with Robert Turner Jefferson Notes Brochure for Press Conference |
| Edited by Robert F. Turner, Carolina Academic Press (2011) | |
| Jefferson-Hemings Revisited | |
| New Study Questions Evidence | |
| One of History's Myths? | |
| Did Jefferson Father his Slave's Son? | |
| Challenge the Dominant Narrative? Who, Us?" | |
| Defending the Integrity of Thomas Jefferson | |
| Challenging the Jefferson-Hemings Orthodoxy | |
| Liberty, State, & Union: The Political Theory of Thomas Jefferson | |
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Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon It has become a conventional exercise in recent years to see Thomas Jefferson through the prism of slavery, as though that were the cornerstone on which his political and social philosophy should be examined. It has become almost mandatory for historians to pronounce Jefferson as ambivalent...Read more |
| Luigi Marco Bassani, Mercer University Press, 2010 | |
| The Jefferson Hemings Myth: An American Travesty | |
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Review from Amazon.com This book carefully examines the facts and finds that, contrary to the way the matter has been portrayed in the news media, there is no substantial evidence at all to support the charge that Thomas Jefferson had a relationship with Sally Hemings. Read more... |
| Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society (2001) | |
| Anatomy of a Scandal: Thomas Jefferson & the Sally Story | |
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Reviewed by Herbert Barger This book is a long awaited and well-researched expose of the Martha Jefferson-Sally Hemings half-sister legend. Read more... |
| Rebecca L. McMurry and James F. McMurry, Jr., M.D., foreword by David N. Mayer, White Mane Publishing Co (2002) | |
| Jefferson Vindicated: Fallacies, Omissions and Contradictions in the Hemings Genealogical Search | |
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Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon As with all legends, the Sally story has a thread of historical truth. Read more... News Release If you thought DNA proved President Jefferson fathered a child of his slave – think again! Read more... |
| Cynthia H. Burton, foreword by James A. Bear, Jr. (2006) | |
| Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy | |
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Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon It is clear the author is troubled by the legal insufficiency of the evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father to any of Sally Hemings children. Read more... |
| Annette Gordon-Reed, University Press of Virginia (1997) | |
| Understanding Thomas Jefferson | |
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Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon Despite the puff reviews on the jacket, this is not the book to read to "get to know" Thomas Jefferson. Read more... |
| E. M. Halliday, HarperCollins (2001) | |
| Negro President | |
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Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon The 3/5ths clause was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in the Articles of Confederation as means of counting the slaves for two purposes...Read more... |
| Garry Wills, Houghton Mifflin company (2003) | |
| Thomas Jefferson | |
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Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon Thomas Jefferson's long and accomplished life resists compression into a one volume treatment. Professor R. B Bernstein almost meets the challenge but not without some lapses. Read more... |
| R. B. Bernstein, Oxford University Press (2003) | |
| Siting Jefferson: Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson's Legacy | |
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Reviewed by Herbert Barger This book preserves a site-specific exhibition sponsored by the University of Virginia Art Museum in 2000 called "Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium." Read more... |
| Jill Hartz, University Press of Virginia (2003) | |
| Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture | |
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Reviewed by Herbert Barger I had requested to be present at a panel discussion of this book and was invited by Professor Peter Onuf, one of the authors. Upon arrival, I was denied a seat on the panel...Read more... |
| Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, University Press of Virginia (1999) | |
| In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal | |
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News Release Interview with William Hyland on C-SPAN Reviewed by Barbara Hollingsworth "The case [Hyland] makes is persuasive and in my view well presented, and it's a historically important project." Read more... |
| William G. Hyland Jr., St. Martins Press (Thomas Dunne Books) (2009) | |
| The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family |
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Reviewed by D.M. Giangreco George Mason University History News Annette Gordon-Reed recently received a rare feather in her cap when the former, long-time head of the of the ACLU, New York Law School's Nadine Strossen, stated that the professor and prize-winning author fully met the criteria set out by the president for the high court seat being vacated by Justice David Souter. Read more... |
| Annette Gordon-Reed, W. W. Norton & Company (2008) | |
| Jeffersonian Legacies | |
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Reviewed by Alf J. Mapp Nowadays tenants of the Houseboat on the Styx must commiserate with their American colleagues when these unfortunates approach their birth centennials, sesquicentennials, bicentennials, or other traditionally significant anniversaries. Read more... |
| Edited by Peter S. Onuf University Press of Virginia (1993) | |
| Thomas Jefferson Reputation and Legacy |
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Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon Francis D. Cogliano suggests his Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy can be a successor to The Jefferson Image in the American Mind by Merrill D. Peterson. That's quite a stretch, but Reputation and Legacy is well worth the reader's time. Read more... |
| Francis D. Cogliano University of Virginia Press (2006) | |
| Twilight at Monticello The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson |
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Reviewed by Richard E. Dixon Once James Madison was inaugurated as president, it was time for Thomas Jefferson to return to Monticello. Read more... |
| Alan Pell Crawford Random House (2008) | |
| The Case of Jefferson and Hemings A review of The Hemingses of Monticello:An American Family by Annette Gordon Reed and In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal by William G. Hyland Jr. |
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Reviewed by Kathryn Moore and D.M. Giangreco Was Thomas Jefferson the father of slave children? If so, was one of his household slaves Sally Hemings a willing partner in a 38-year love affair...Read more... |
| The Claremont Institute Claremont Review of Books | |