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15. See Jan Lewis, Joseph J. Ellis, Lucia Stanton, Peter S. Onuf, Annette Gordon-Reed, Andrew Burstein, and Fraser D. Neiman, comments in the forum published in The William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., vol. 7, no. 1, (January 2000) 121–210.
16. Eric Lander and Joseph Ellis, “Founding Father,” Nature 396 (November 5, 1998), 1.
17. Joseph J. Ellis, “Jefferson: Post-DNA,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., vol. 57, no. 1 (January 2000), 136, n14.
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19. Dinitia Smith and Nicholas Wade, “DNA Tests Offer Evidence that Jefferson Fathers a Child with His Slave,” The New York Times “Science,” November 1, 1998.
20. Dennis Cauchon, “Jefferson Affair No Longer Rumor,” USA Today, November 2, 1998.
21. Donna Britt, “A Slaveholder’s Hypocrisy Was Inevitable,” Washington Post, November 6, 1998, B01.
22. Clarence Page, “New Disclosures Show Two Thomas Jeffersons,” Chicago Tribune, November 5, 1998, 1.
23. Ibid., 2.
24. Hitchens, “What Do Jefferson and Clinton Have in Common,” 3–4
25. Richard Cohen, “Grand Illusion,” Washington Post, December 13, 1998, W10.
26. Page, “New Disclosures Show Two Thomas Jeffersons,” 2.
27. Smith and Wade, “DNA Test Finds Evidence.”
28. Annette Gordon-Reed, “The All Too Human Jefferson,” Wall Street Journal, November 24, 1998, in Dr. David N. Mayer, “The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Myth and the Politicization of American History,” John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, April 9, 2001, accessed October 24, 2011, http://www.ashbrook.org/articles/mayer-hemings.html.
29. Ellis, “Jefferson: Post-DNA,” 130.
30. Eugene A. Foster et al., “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child,” Nature 396 (November 5, 1998), 27–28.
31. Foster et al. “Reply: The Thomas Jefferson Paternity Case,” 32.
32. The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Report of the Scholars Commission, ed. Robert F. Turner (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2011), 11.
33. Ibid., 8.
34. Gene Edward Veith, “Founder’s DNA Revisited,” World, February 20, 1999, 24.
35. Mona Charen, “Was Jefferson Libeled by DNA?” Jewish World Review, January 19, 1999, accessed October 25, 2011, http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen011999asp.
36. Herbert Barger, “The Jefferson-Hemings DNA Study,” Angel Fire, last updated August 30, 2000, accessed October 24, 2011, http://www.angelfire.com/va/TJTruth/background.html.
37. For a list of the professors and the schools they’re associated with, see this link: http://www.tjheritage.org/scholars.html.
38. The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Report of the Scholars Commission, ed. Turner, 6.
39. Ibid., 16.
40. Foster et al., “Reply: The Thomas Jefferson Paternity Case,” 32.
41. Herbert Barger, “Letters to the Editor: Rushing to Rescue TJ,” C-ville Weekly, November, 2005, accessed October 24, 2011, http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=121304064644348&z_Issue_ID=1892509061555962&ShowArchiveArticle_ID=1892509061586567. See also Herbert Barger, review of “Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture,” by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, accessed June 15, 2011, http://www.tjheritage.org/booksfiles/Barger-Hemings_and_Jefferson_by_Lewis.pdf.
42. Walter V. Robinson, “Professor’s Past in Doubt Discrepancies Surface in Claim of Vietnam Duty,” Boston Globe, June 18, 2001, A1. See also Dennis Loy Johnson, “The History Lesson of Joseph Ellis,” Mobylives.com, June 20, 2001, accessed October 24, 2011, http://www.mobylives.com/Joseph_Ellis.html.
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45. Veith, “Founder’s DNA Revisited,” 24.
46. Charen, “Was Jefferson Libeled by DNA?”
47. “DNA Test Fails to Link Jefferson, Monticello Slave Descendant,” Washington Post, March 23, 2000. Additionally, on March 20, 2000, our WallBuilders office personally spoke with Dr. Eugene Foster, who had conducted the testing, to affirm that his most recent testing had again proved that Thomas Jefferson was not the father of Thomas Woodson. Dr. Foster confirmed that such was the case.
48. Madison Hemings, “Life Among the Lowly,” Pike County (Ohio) Republican, March 13, 1873, in Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, 246.
49. Hemings, “Life Among the Lowly,” 247. See also Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson the Virginian, vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948), 384; Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 6:xv, 146.
50. Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, 259.
51. Letter from Ellen Randolph Coolidge to Joseph Coolidge on October 26, 1858, original on file at the University of Virginia Library; David N. Myer, “The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Myth and the Politicization of American History,” Ashbrook Center, April 9, 2001, accessed October 24, 2011, http://www.ashbrook.org/articles/mayer-hemings.html.
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53. Ellis, “Jefferson: Post-DNA,” 136–137, n15.
54. Allen Johnson ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929), s.v. “James Thomson Callender.”
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58. James Madison, Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, vol. 2 (Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott & Co., 1865), 172.
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60. Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Ford, 9:262–263.
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62. Madison, Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, 2:173.
63. Ibid.
64. Monroe, The Writings of James Monroe, ed. Hamilton, 3:290.
65. Madison, The Papers of James Madison, ed. Brugger, 1:117.
66. Ibid.
67. Allen Johnson, ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929), s.v. “James Thomson Callender.”
68. Malone, Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801-1805, 4:220, n43.
69. Malone, Jefferson the President, First Term, 4:208.
70. J. T. Callender, “The President Again,” The Recorder; Or, Lady’s and Gentleman’s Miscellany (Richmond), September 1, 1802.
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid., December 8, 1802.
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74. J. T. Callender, “More about Sally and the President,” The Recorder; Or, Lady’s and Gentleman’s Miscellany (Richmond), September 22, 1802.
75. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, “Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.”
76. Ibid.
77. J. T. Callender, “The President Again,” The Recorder; Or, Lady’s and Gentleman’s Miscellany (Richmond), September 1, 1802.
78. J. T. Callender, The Prospect Before
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79. Ibid., 4, 9, 18, 22, 24, 26–28, 32, 34, and passim.
80. Malone, Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801–1805, 4:207.
81. James Truslow Adams, The Living Jefferson (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936), 315.
82. Virginius Dabney, The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal (New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1981), 15.
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84. John Chester Miller, The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery (New York: The Free Press, 1977), 153.
85. Ibid., 154.
86. Benjamin Ellis Martin, “Transition Period of the American Press,” Magazine of American History 17 (January–June 1887), 285.
87. Ibid., 285–286.
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93. Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Randolph, 4:129.
94. Ibid., 3:439.
95. Kenneth Chang, “DNA Tests Sheds Light on Old Scandal: Jefferson Fathered Slave Son,” ABC News, November 5, 1998.
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97. Ibid., 4:23.
98. Ibid., 4:129; Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Correspondence: Printed from the Originals in the Collections of William K. Bixby, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston: Plimpton Press, 1916), 115.
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103. James V. Drake, An Historical Sketch of Wilson County, Tennessee, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time (Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1879), 10; emphasis added.
104. Alfred Theodore Andreas, History of the State of Kansas, ed. William C. Cutler (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883), 486; emphasis added.
105. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Fulton County, Arkansas (1889; repr. Higginsville, MO: Hearthstone Legacy Publications, 2004), 261; emphasis added..
106. Willard Sterne Randall, Thomas Jefferson: A Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1994), 476.
107. Gary Wills, “Uncle Thomas’s Cabin,” New York Review of Books, April 18, 1974.
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