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Adair, Douglass. "The Jefferson Scandals." Fame and the Founding Fathers: Essays by Douglass Adair. Ed. Trevor Colbourn. New York: Norton, 1974.

Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

Andrews, Tina. Sally Hemings, An American Scandal: The Struggle to Tell the Controversial True Story. New York: Malibu Press, 2001.

Andrews, Tina. “Video Report: Imagining Sally Hemings.” Jefferson’s Blood. PBS Frontline, 2000. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/video/report3.html

Bianco, Robert. "Soaped-up 'Sally' plays a founding father for a fool." USA Today 11 February 2000: 1E.

Bolam, Sarah, and Thomas J. Bolam. The Presidents on Film. Jefferson: MacFarland, 2007.

Branigin, William. "'When Thomas Met Sally' is no way to view history." Washington Post 20 February 2000: B01.

Breaux, Kia Shant. "Letter from America: Slave Girl Descendants Battle to Join the Jeffersons." Birmingham Post 14 February 2000: 10.

Brennan, Patricia. "A President's Love Story." Washington Post 13 February 2000: Y06.

Brodie, Fawn. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. New York: Norton, 1974.

Brown, DeNeen L. "Labor of Love; 'Sally Hemings' Writer Adds Romance to the History." Washington Post 12 February 2000: C01.

Chase-Riboud, Barbara. Sally Hemings: A Novel. New York: Viking, 1979.

Clinton, Catherine. "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal." Journal of American History 87.3 (2000): 1151.

"Connecting the Dots of History: The Research and Points of View behind Sally Hemings: An American Scandal." http://www.ibiblio.org/samneill/films/shhistory.txt

Curtis, Mary C. "Hemings a Victim Again in Insulting TV Movie." Charlotte Observer 13 February 2000.

Custen, George F. Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992.

Dacey-Groth, Camilla Elisabeth. "Slaves of Fiction: Coming to Terms with the American Holocaust through Representations of Slavery in Post-Civil Rights Fiction and Film." Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. 63.1 (2002): 245.

Deggans, Eric. "A blot on his sacred honor?" St. Petersburg Times 13 February 2000: 1f.

Erickson, Steve. Arc d'X. New York: Holt, 1993.

"Fireworks." Episode 18, Year One of 30 Rock.

Foster, Eugene, et al. "Jefferson Fathered Slave's Last Child." Nature 5 November 1998: 27-28.

Fries, Laura. "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal." Variety 11 February 2000: 34.

Gilbert, Matthew. "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal." Boston Globe 12 February 2000: F3.

Goodale, Gloria. "News and fiction meet in retelling of 'Scandal'." Christian Science Monitor 11 February 2000: 18.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1997.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. "Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other?" American Heritage 58.5 (2008): 14-17.

Graeber, Laurel. "Some Truths Are Not So Self-Evident." New York Times 13 February 2000: 13:59.

Heisler, Bob. "Slave of Love." Daily News [New York] 13 February 2000: 6.

Irvine, Reed. "Media Falsely Portray Jefferson's Relationship with His Slave." Insight on the News 20 March 2000: 45.

James, Caryn. "A Founding Father and Perhaps the Mother." New York Times 11 February 2000: E29.

Jefferson in Paris (1995) http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/reels/films/list/0_55

Jefferson's Blood. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/

Jefferson's Blood PBS Frontline documentary, 1999.

Jefferson, Thomas. "Laws" (Query XIV). Notes on the State of Virginia. http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefVirg.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=14&division=div1

Jefferson, Thomas. The Declaration of Independence. http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefAuto.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=3&division=div2

The Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter http://web.archive.org/web/20030401221250/www.geocities.com/tjshcommission/

Kelleher, Terry. "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal." People Weekly 14 February 2000: 25.

King, Florence. "The misanthrope's corner." National Review 3 April 2000: 60.

Kukla, Jon. “Sally Hemings.” Mr. Jefferson's Women. New York: Knopf, 2007.

Kuklenski, Valerie. "Tale of forbidden love American hero." The Gazette [Montreal] 13 February 2000: C6.

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

Lord, Lewis. "Peeping at Tom and Sally CBS sees love -- or was it merely sex?" U.S. News & World Report 7 February 2000: 51.

Martinez, Pablo Miguel. "Yours, Sally Hemings." North American Review 294.1 (2009): 30.

McCluskey, Audrey T. “Tina Andrews: Having Her Say.” Black Camera. 16.1 (2001): 1-2.

Mink, Eric. "'Hemings' Flubs Story of Confounding Father." Daily News [New York] 11 February 2000: 134.

Monteith, Sharon. "America's Domestic Aliens: African Americans and the Issue of Citizenship in the Jefferson/Hemings Story in Fiction and Film." Alien Identities: Exploring Difference in Fiction and Film. Ed. Deborah Cartmell et al. Sterling: Pluto Press, 1999. 31-48.

Monteith, Sharon. "Sally Hemings in Visual Culture: A Radical Act of the Imagination?" Slavery and Abolition 29.2 (2008): 233-46.

Monticello http://www.monticello.org/

Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings_report.html

Rollins, Peter C., ed. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Rosenfeld, Megan. "CBS's 'Scandal': Taking Liberties." Washington Post 12 February 2000: C04.

"The Story on Page One." Episode 219 of Family Guy.

Thomas Jefferson -- Sally Hemings -- DNA Study http://jeffersondna.com/

Thompson, Kevin. "Leads Breathe Life, Heart into Jefferson's Illicit Love." Cox News Service 11 February 2000.

Vivian, Bradford. "Jefferson's Other." Quarterly Journal of Speech 88.3 (2002): 284-302.

Wickham, DeWayne. "Hemings, Jefferson: No free will, no love." USA Today 1 February 2000: 15A.