Two good online sources for a discussion of the recent DNA findings on the genetic heritage of the Hemingses are this one on the University of Virginia website:

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/tomsally.html

and this one hosted by Monticello, Jefferson’s home. Interesting comparisons can be drawn between this “official” statement by the curators of Jefferson’s heritage and Dr. Gordon-Reed’s discussion and the University of Virginia piece:

http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings-jefferson_contro.html

For evaluating oral history evidence, the Library of Congress provides a very useful teachers’ guide based on the archive of interviews compiled in the Depression by the WPA. As the interviews include the life stories of former slaves, the guide will be particularly useful in studying the topics raised in this issue of HISTORY NOW:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohfwp.html

For the everyday lives of the Hemingses and other African Americans at Monticello, go to the “Research and Collections” section of the Monticello website and check all the links under “People” (which include a wide variety of material on free and bond servants on the plantation) and the links under “Plantation and Slave Life”:

http://www.monticello.org/research/index.php