Contributors Reviews Editors Related Links To Order		Announcing a New Series: Jeffersonian America Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, Series Editors Joyce Appleby, Annette Gordon-Reed, James Horn, David Konig, James Oakes, and Alan Taylor, Advisory Editors This series will illuminate the American republic's formative decades by publishing the best new scholarship in the field. Younger and established scholars will address the critical social, cultural, and political issues that faced the founding generations as they sought to establish a nation.
		Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture
		Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf
		325 pages 6 x 9
		ISBN 0-8139-1919-3 • Paper $21.50
		The publication of DNA test results showing that Thomas Jefferson was probably the father of one of his slave Sally Hemings's children has sparked a broad but often superficial debate. The editors of this volume have assembled some of the most distinguished American historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, and other experts on Jefferson, his times, race, and slavery. Their essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson has raised about American history and national culture. The DNA tests would not have been conducted had there not already been strong historical evidence for the possibility of a relationship. As historians from Winthrop D. Jordan to Annette Gordon-Reed have argued, much more is at stake in this liaison than the mere question of paternity: historians must ask themselves if they are prepared to accept the full implications of our complicated racial history, a history powerfully shaped by the institution of slavery and by sex across the color line. How, for example, does it change our understanding of American history to place Thomas Jefferson in his social context as a plantation owner who fathered white and black families both? What happens when we shift our focus from Jefferson and his white family to Sally Hemings and her children? How do we understand interracial sexual relationships in the early republic and in our own time? Can a renewed exploration of the contradiction between Jefferson's life as a slaveholder and his libertarian views yield a clearer understanding of the great political principles he articulated so eloquently and that Americans cherish? Are there moral or political lessons to be learned from the lives of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings and the way that historians and the public have attempted to explain their liaison? Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture promises an open-ended discussion on the living legacy of slavery and race relations in our national culture.
		Contributors: Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School Rhys Isaac, College of William and Mary Winthrop D. Jordan, University of Mississippi Jan Ellen Lewis, Rutgers University, Newark Philip D. Morgan, Institute of Early American History and Culture Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University Joshua Rothman, University of Virginia Werner Sollors, Harvard University Lucia Stanton, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Dianne Swann-Wright, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Clarence Walker, University of California at Davis Gordon S. Wood, Brown University
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		The Editors
		Jan Ellen Lewis is Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark, and author of of The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia. Peter S. Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia and editor of Jeffersonian Legacies (Virginia). His new book, Jefferson's Empire, will be published in April 2000.
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