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The Jefferson-Hemings controversy : report of the Scholars Commission
- Title
- The Jefferson-Hemings controversy : report of the Scholars Commission / edited by Robert F. Turner.
- Author
- Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter.
- Publication
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Turner, Robert F.
- Description
- xix, 412 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Understanding the DNA evidence linking Eston Hemings to Thomas Jefferson's cousins -- The enigmatic Sally Hemings : so few facts, so much fantasy and speculation -- James Thomson Callender and the origins of the 1802 Jefferson-Hemings scandal -- Madison Hemings' 1873 "memoir" in the Pike County Republican -- Thomas Jefferson's visitation patterns to Monticello and their correlation with Sally Hemings' conceptions -- "Extraordinary privileges" for Sally Hemings and her children -- The physical resemblance of some of Sally Hemings' children to Thomas Jefferson -- Reassessing the oral tradition of Sally Hemings' descendants -- Miscellaneous arguments said to support Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings' children -- Revisionist arguments reconsidered : evidence too quickly dismissed? -- The "silent dogs" and other issues ignored by most revisionist scholars -- Individual views of Jean M. Yarborough, Charles Kessler, and Professor Harvey C. Mansfield -- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings : case closed? -- Individual views of professor Robert H. Ferrell -- The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings myth and the politicization of American history -- Individual views of professor Forrest McDonald -- Does the DNA analysis establish Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings' children? -- Thomas Jefferson : brother's keeper -- Minority views of Professor Paul A. Rahe -- Editor's postscript : reactions to the Scholars Commission report.
- Call Number
- Sc F 11-633
- ISBN
- 9780890890851 (alk. paper)
- 0890890854 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010031551
- OCLC
- 149077465
- Author
- Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter.
- Title
- The Jefferson-Hemings controversy : report of the Scholars Commission / edited by Robert F. Turner.
- Imprint
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Turner, Robert F.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 11-633IID 12-845