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Hace 4 días · Mi Monticello se adaptará al cine de la mano de Netflix. En su impresionante debut, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson imagina una distopía posible en los Estados Unidos de hoy, sacudidos por el racismo y la violencia.La protagonista de esta novela es DaÆNaisha Love, una joven mujer afroamericana descendiente de uno de los seis hijos que ...
Hace 4 días · In 2022, Annette Gordon-Reed posed outside the Conroe ISD school named in her honor. Gordon-Reed, a Conroe High grad, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her work on Jefferson and the Hemings family ...
Hace 1 día · Since the results of the DNA tests were made public, the consensus among most historians has been that Jefferson had a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings and that he was the father of her son Eston Hemings. Still, a minority of scholars maintain the evidence is insufficient to prove Jefferson's paternity conclusively.
Hace 2 días · The off-off-off-Broadway theater troupe Good Company is putting on a play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Writer Luce is cast as Sally; her romantic partner, and the play’s director, Mike, is cast as Tom—really, people, what could possibly go wrong?
Hace 1 día · Hemings daughter Sally traveled with Thomas Jefferson, and he was the father of her children,” Williams said. Betty’s oldest daughter, Mary got married and in 1780 gave birth to Joseph Fossett ...
Hace 2 días · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president ...
Hace 2 días · Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, that persuasively debunked longstanding defenses against Jefferson’s paternity. The work reignited scholarly debate, and a DNA study the very next year — the same study Nelson feels is “inappropriate” to teach students — confirmed her findings. Nor did Gordon-Reed ...
