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Alf E. Mapp, a member of the Scholars Commission, responds in the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star to an article by Susan Dunn (author of "Dominion of Memories") in which she claims that Thomas Jefferson "fathered mixed race children."
2/1/2008
The essay "Thomas Jefferson, Man versus Myth," by David Mayer has been published as a monograph, or pamphlet, by The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship (at Rockford College, in Illinois), and is now available for purchase (for $5.95) at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979427010. The essay can also be viewed at the "Jefferson Image" section of this web page under "Jefferson and Intellectual Thought."
4/13/2006 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Day, 2006 | |
| A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America | |
| 6/26/2005 | |
| Herbert Barger, Jefferson Family Historian and Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society board member, has recently assisted the National Geographic Society with a vital Genographic Project. Spencer Wells, National Geographic geneticist, needed the Jefferson DNA for his project and Mr. Barger, who assisted Dr. Eugene Foster with the 1998 Jefferson-Hemings DNA Study, agreed to assist and provided Jefferson information for this important study. It is from Mr. Barger's data banks that Jefferson family genealogy and history is maintained.
The results were revealed to the public in the National Geographic film production, The Search for Adam, shown nationally on June 26, 2005. A Jefferson DNA donor is shown providing a mouth swab for the match. Using other similar swabs, Mr. Wells was able to determine that the Jefferson DNA matched to the Phoenicians, an ancient civilization living in what is now Syria and Lebanon. The Phoenicians were known as the Canaanites in the Bible. | |
| 5/9/2002 | |
| Sullying the Memory of Thomas Jefferson | |
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By Editorial Board, The Washington Times |
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Is there a willful determination by some to sully the memory of one of |
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| 7/4/2001 | |
| Op Ed in The Wall Street Journal | |
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By Robert F. Turner, The Wall Street Journal |
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Were allegations about Thomas Jefferson's purported relationship with Sally Hemings just another bit of Clintonian--Monica Lewinsky spin? |
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| 3/20/2000 | |
| Francis L. Berkley Interview | |
| This summary was prepared by Frank Buell, son-in-law of Herbert Barger, Jefferson Family Historian. It is based on an audio taped interview of Mr. Francis L. Berkeley conducted by Mr. Barger taken on March 29, 2000. Parts of this tape were unintelligible. There is one such incident contained in this summary which is represented by a blank line.
Mr. Berkeley was Curator of Manuscripts at the University of Virginia (UVA) for more than 25 years and was a member of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Board for approximately 29 years. At age 89, he is now an honorary member of the board. | |
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| Mr. Jefferson's Servants | |
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An important eyewitness account of Thomas Jefferson's overseer, Captain Edmund Bacon. "Mr. Jefferson freed a number of his servants in his will. I think he would have freed all of them, if his affairs had not been so much involved that he could not do it. He freed one girl some years before he died, and there was a great deal of talk about it. People said he freed her because she was his own daughter. She was not his daughter; she was ....'s daughter [identity illegible]. I know that. I have seen him come out of her mother's room many a morning, when I went up to Monticello very early." |
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| James Callender was not known for his Veracity | |
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By Rebecca & James McMurry, The Washington Post |
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James Callender's scandalous charge about Sally Hemings was made about 18 months into Jefferson's first term as President, and Mr. Callender was not known for his veracity. |
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| Callender Hated People of Color | |
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By Robert F. Turner, The Boston Globe |
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The allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings was first published in 1802 in fulfillment of a blackmail threat by one of the most disreputable scandalmongers of the era, James Callender, who hated people of color and expected that the rumor would cost Jefferson his reelection. |
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Meet Thomas Jefferson, Portrayed by Bill Barker
Colonial Williamsburg's Bill Barker is the best character interpreter of Jefferson there is, and for two days he wowed audiences in Grand Rapids, Lansing, and East Lansing at the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Great Valley University.
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