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Article: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. Jeffersonian America. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 280. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8139-1919-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8139-1918-5.)
Every year brings the publication of several new monographs on the third president, so many, in fact, that even specialists can scarcely keep up. Some, especially the endless spate of biographies by popular writers, may be safely dismissed. But in light of the DNA findings published in the November 1998 issue of the magazine Nature, anyone who pretends to understand Thomas ...