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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

In conversation with Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus, UCLA and Director, National Center for History in the Schools
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
1:14:52
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Episode Summary
A historian and legal scholar tells the compelling saga of the Hemings family, whose close blood ties to our third president have been systemically expunged from American history until very recently.

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Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School and a professor of history at Rutgers University. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, editor of Race On Trial: Law and Justice in American History, and coauthor with Vernon Jordan of Vernon Can Read: A Memoir. Gordon-Reed is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.


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