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"The Hemings of Monticello": Jefferson's other family (Seattle Times)
Annette Gordon-Reed's National Book Award-winning work of history, "The Hemings of Monticello," reconstructs the complex relationship between Thomas Jefferson and the family he sired through his slave Sally Hemings.
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Welcome to wine country ... in Virginia (New York Daily News)
It might surprise people to learn that Virginia is a thriving wine-producing state. But grape growing in the Old Dominion actually dates to 1774, when Thomas Jefferson planted a vineyard.
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Speaker explores the domestic side of slavery (News & Messenger)
Life as an enslaved domestic worker at Monticello took skill and intense focus, and it is what made the elite life that Thomas Jefferson led possible.
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Did Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love Each Other? (American Heritage)
The staff of American Heritage Magazine would like to congratulate recent contributor, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, on her receipt of the 2008 National Book Award for nonfiction.
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Hemings book wins National Book Award (The Hook)
Last night in New York, New York University law professor Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for her groundbreaking study of Sally Hemings and three generations of her extended family The Hemingses of Monticello. Among the more surprising revelations in this book, Gordon-Reed’s second book of scholarship on Thomas Jefferson, is that [...]
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Hemings book wins national award (Moldova.org)
The National Book Award for non-fiction was bestowed on Annette Gordon-Reed in New York Wednesday night for her book, The Hemingses of Monticello.Gordon-Reed's book tells the multigenerational story of the family of Sally Hemings, a black slave owned by President Thomas Jefferson and alleged to have had at least one child by him.In accepting the award, Gordon-Reed talked of the journey that ...
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Matthiessen, ‘Hemingses of Monticello’ Win National Book Awards (Bloomberg)
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Two weeks after Barack Obama’s barrier-breaking election, Annette Gordon-Reed won the $10,000 National Book Award for nonfiction with “The Hemingses of Monticello” (Norton), a history of the family of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s slave and the mother of several of his children.
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Faust’s Civil War Book Falters in Quest for Non-Fiction National Book Award (The Harvard Crimson)
University President Drew G. Faust’s book on the Civil War—one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s housekeeper Sally Hemings at the award ceremony in New York last night.
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Texas native, UH poet win National Book Awards (Houston Chronicle)
Annette Gordon-Reed made history — and on her birthday — Wednesday when she became the first African-American woman to win the National Book Award in nonfiction. She won for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Norton), an exhaustively detailed history of Sally Hemings, the slave woman who became Thomas Jefferson's mistress, and Hemings' remarkable extended family.
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US awards go to slave, outlaw books (TVNZ)
A book about a slave family with ties to US President Thomas Jefferson and novel about a notorious Florida outlaw were among the winners at America's 59th annual National Book Awards.
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