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NEWSLETTER VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1; SPRING 2000 Report on Jefferson and On January , , the Memorial Foundation released its Research Report on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, re-engaging the public imagination with this evolving piece of American history. Hundreds of news articles covered the story around the world, and all of the national television and radio networks carried a mention of the news that Monticellos’s “evaluation of the best evidence available suggests the strong likelihood that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings had a relationaship over time that led to the birth of one, and perhaps all, of the known children of Sally Hemings.” Over , individuals have downloaded ’s research report from the internet, and website hits reached an unprecedented , immediately following the press conference. While public response to the Report was generally favorable, Foundation President Dan Jordan notes that, “honorable people have disagreed about this story for hundreds of years, and may continue to disagreee, but the weight of evidence, I believe, compelling, and the Report’s findings allow This Issue’s Monticello us to clear the released the decks and Other Stories Research Report begin reevaluating the information we ❧ HONOR ROLL OF on Thomas present to our visitors.” Meetings are CONTRIBUTORS Jefferson and underway to discuss interpretive Sally Hemings at strategies and to brief Monticello’s ❧ JEFFERSON AND THE a press interpretive staff. “This is a long-term REVOLUTION OF 1800 conference on opportunity to understand more fully January 26, 2000. ❧ JEFFERSON AT THE Thomas Jefferson and the plantation MILLENNIUM community by which he was formed and of which he was a part,” adds ❧ JULY 4 AT MONTICELLO Jordan. For the hundreds of thousands of ❧ LEWIS AND CLARK KICKOFF people who have already visited the Monticello website the Foundation’s ❧ MELLON ARCHAEOLOGY educational resources are already GRANT familiar, but for those who have not ❧ MONTICELLO CABINET

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visited the little mountain, virtually or otherwise, following is a bibliog- raphy for delving into the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings for yourself.

For Further Reading www.monticello.org Website created by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to share Monticello electronically with millions of virtual visitors each year. Contains extensive information regarding Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings and at Monticello.

www.monticello-assoc.org Website created by the , the group of descendants of Thomas Jefferson’s two daughters Randolph and Maria Jefferson Eppes. Contains information about the family-owned cemetery and a variety of viewpoints on the implications of the recent DNA information.

Research Report on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings and Minority Report Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 2000. (Available on website.)

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. LVII, No. 1, January 2000.

Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture Jan Ellen Lewis & Peter Onuf, ed., 1999.

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy Annette Gordon-Reed, 1997.

The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery John Chester Miller, 1997.

Slavery at Monticello Lucia C. Stanton, 1996.

The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal Dan Jordan , 1991. presents the

“The Jefferson Scandals,” in Fame and the Founding Fathers Report to the Douglas Adair, 1974. media.

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History Fawn M. Brodie, 1974.

White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812 Winthrop D. Jordan, 1968.

Jefferson and His Times , 1962.

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