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.
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. Since 1966 Gary B. Nash has taught American history at UCLA, where he has received a Distinguished Teaching Award and a Faculty Research Lecturer Award. During 1994-95 he served as President of the Organization of American Historians. In 1997 he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is Director of the National Center for History in the Schools.