Editor's postscript : reactions to the Scholars Commission report. The enigmatic Sally Hemings : so few facts, so much fantasy and speculation -- James Thomson Callender and the origins of the 1802 Jefferson-Hemings scandal -- Madison Hemings' 1873 "memoir" in the Pike County Republican -- Thomas Jefferson's visitation patterns to Monticello and their correlation with Sally Hemings' conceptions -- "Extraordinary privileges" for Sally Hemings and her children -- The physical resemblance of some of Sally Hemings' children to Thomas Jefferson -- Reassessing the oral tradition of Sally Hemings' descendants -- Miscellaneous arguments said to support Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings' children -- Revisionist arguments reconsidered : evidence too quickly dismissed? -- The "silent dogs" and other issues ignored by most revisionist scholars -- Individual views of Jean M. Yarborough, Charles Kessler, and Professor Harvey C. Mansfield -- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings : case closed? -- Individual views of professor Robert H. Ferrell -- The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings myth and the politicization of American history -- Individual views of professor Forrest McDonald -- Does the DNA analysis establish Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings' children? -- Thomas Jefferson : brother's keeper -- Minority views of Professor Paul A. Rahe -- Editor's postscript : reactions to the Scholars Commission report.
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