|
|
Article: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2000 Mississippi State University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture, edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. x, 280 pp. $65.00 cloth. $17.95 paper.
THE STORY OF SALLY HEMINGS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON captivates the attention of Americans, including those who are not generally interested in history as well as those who have made it their hobby, vocation, or profession. In venues as diverse as a recent special issue of the William and Mary Quarterly, an Oprah show, a popular novel, pages and chapters by professional historians, and a television mini-series, Americans have sought out the truth of this story, ...