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Reaction to the DNA: A Chronological List
Since the events surrounding the DNA announcement can most valuably and profitably be understood and appreciated in the sequence in which they unfolded, here is a chronological list of key documents.
1) Lander, Eric S., and Joseph J. Ellis. "Founding Father." Nature 5 November 1998: 13-14.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v396/n6706/full/396013a0.html
2) Foster, Eugene, et. al. "Jefferson Fathered Slave's Last Child." Nature 5 November 1998: 27-28.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v396/n6706/full/396027a0.html
3) A Statement from Daniel P. Jordan, President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, issued on November 1, 1998. [Appendix D only]
4) Staples, Brent. "Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Together at Last?" New York Times 2 November 1998.
5)Patterson, Orlando. "Jefferson the Contradiction." New York Times 2 November 1998.
6) Safire, William. "Sallygate." New York Times 2 November 1998: A27.
7)Gordon-Reed, Annette. "Why Jefferson Scholars Were the Last to Know." New York Times 3 November 1998: A27.
8) Alexander, Daryl Royster. "The Content of Jefferson's Character Is Revealed at Last, Or Is It?" New York Times 8 November 1998: 4.7.
9) Foster, Eugene. Letter to the Editor. New York Times 9 November 1998.
10) Ellis, Joseph J. "When a Saint Becomes a Sinner." U.S. News & World Report 9 November 1998: 67-68.
11) Murray, Barbra. "Jefferson's Secret Life." U.S. News & World Report 9 November 1998: 58-63.
12) Petit, Charles. "The History That Lies in Men's Genes." U.S. News & World Report 9 November 1998: 63.
13) Rosellini, Lynn. "Cutting the Great Man Down to Size." U.S. News & World Report 9 November 1998: 66.
14) Terry, Don. "DNA Results Confirmed Old News about Jefferson, Blacks Say." New York Times 10 November 1998.
15) Staples, Brent. "The Shifting Meanings of 'Black' and 'White.'" New York Times 15 November 1998.
16) Burstein, Andrew, Nancy Isenberg, Annette Gordon-Reed. "Three Perspectives on America's Jefferson Fixation." Nation 30 November 1998: 23-28.
17) Cohen, Richard. "Grand Illusion." Washington Post 13 December 1998.
18) Abbey, David M. "The Thomas Jefferson Paternity Case." Nature 7 January 1999: 32.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v397/n6714/full/397032a0.html
19) Davis, Gary. "The Thomas Jefferson Paternity Case." Nature 7 January 1999: 32.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v397/n6714/full/397032b0.html
20) Foster, Eugene, et. al. "Reply: The Thomas Jefferson Paternity Case." Nature 7 January 1999: 32.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v397/n6714/full/397032c0.html
21) Marshall, Eliot. "Which Jefferson Was the Father?" Science 8 January 1999: 153-55.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/283/5399/153a
22) Lord, Lewis. "The Tom-and-Sally Miniseries (cont.): Rallying around the Founding Father." U.S. News & World Report 18 January 1999: 24.
23) The Jefferson-Hemings DNA Study as told by Herbert Barger, Jefferson Family Historian. February 12, 1999. (revised August 30, 2000)
http://web.archive.org/web/20090506220514/http://www.angelfire.com/va/TJTruth/background.html
24) "Whoever said history is dull?" -- Remarks from Daniel P. Jordan, President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, at the meeting of the Monticello Association, the organization of descendants of Thomas Jefferson, May 15, 1999.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071230112326/http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings_remarks.html
25) Patton, Venetria K. "Narrating Competing Truths in the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Paternity Debate." Black Scholar 29.4 (1999): 8-15.
26) Gordon-Reed, Annette. "Engaging Jefferson: Blacks and the Founding Father." William and Mary Quarterly 57.1 (2000): 171-82.
27) Gordon-Reed, Annette. Letter to the Editor. [Jefferson and Hemings] New York Times 10 July 2004.
28) Statement on the [Monticello Research Committee] Report by TJMF President Daniel P. Jordan. Thomas Jefferson Foundation. January 2000.
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/reportstatement.html
29) Report of the Monticello Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Thomas Jefferson Foundation. January 2000.
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings_report.html
30) Minority Report of the Monticello Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Thomas Jefferson Foundation. March 2000. [report authored by White McKenzie (Ken) Wallenborn]
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/minority_report.html
31) Response to the Minority Report of the Monticello Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Thomas Jefferson Foundation. May 2000.
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/minority_response.html
32) Reply to the "Response to the Minority Report." Thomas Jefferson Foundation. July 2000. [reply authored by White McKenzie (Ken) Wallenborn]
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/wallenborn_response.html
33) Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter. The Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission. April 12, 2001.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030401221250/www.geocities.com/tjshcommission/
34) The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Myth and the Politicization of American History: Individual Views of David N. Mayer, Concurring with the Majority Report of the Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter. April 9, 2001.
http://web.archive.org/web/20110725015820/http://www.ashbrook.org/articles/mayer-hemings.html
35) Research Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: A Critical Analysis. Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. [rebuttal to the TJMF report]
http://web.archive.org/web/20090420004334/http://angelfire.com/va/TJTruth/rebuttal.html
36) The Case Against Thomas Jefferson: A Trial Analysis of the Evidence on Paternity. Richard E. Dixon. 2001.
http://www.tjheritage.org/newscomfiles/TrialAnalysis.pdf
37) Leary, Helen F. M. "Sally Heming's Children: A Genealogical Analysis of the Evidence." National Genealogical Society Quarterly 89 (2001): 165-207.
38) McMurry, Rebecca L., and James F. McMurry. "The 1998 DNA Study." Anatomy of a Scandal: Thomas Jefferson and the Sally Story. Shippensburg: White Mane Books, 2002. 1-10.
39) Burton, Cynthia H. Jefferson Vindicated: Fallacies, Omissions, and Contradictions in the Hemings Genealogical Search. Keswick: Cynthia Burton, 2005.
40) Williams, Sloan. "A Case Study of Ethical Issues in Genetic Research: The Sally Hemings-Thomas Jefferson Story." Biological Anthropology and Ethics: From Repatriation to Genetic Identity. Ed. Trudy R. Turner. Albany: State U of New York P, 2005. 185-208.
