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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.

Adams, William Howard. The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.

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

Alleva, Richard. "Foundering father? -- Jefferson in Paris." Commonweal 19 May 1995: 20.

Ansen, David. "Jefferson's Dangerous Liaisons." Newsweek 3 April 1995: 69.

Appleby, Joyce. Rev. of Jefferson in Paris. Journal of American History 82.3 (1995): 1306.

Arens, Katherine. "Jefferson in Paris: Imperious History, Un-Domesticated." Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert 27.1 (2003): 76-84.

Arnold, Gary. "'Jefferson': Amorous American in Paris." Washington Times 7 April 7: 1995: C17.

Barnett, Gerald. Richard and Maria Cosway: A Biography. Tiverton, Devon [England]: Westcountry Books, 1995.

Bernier, Olivier. Pleasure and Privilege: Life in France, Naples, and America, 1770-1790. New York: Doubleday, 1981.

Bernstein, Richard. "'Jefferson': Turning a Dubious Premise into Fact." New York Times 10 April 1995: C9.

Blake, Richard A. "Revolting -- Jefferson in Paris." America 13 May 1995: 24.

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

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

Bullock, Helen Duprey. My Head and My Heart. New York: C. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1945.

Burnell, Carol. Divided Affections: The Extraordinary Life of Maria Cosway : Celebrity Artist and Thomas Jefferson's Impossible Love. Lausanne: Column House, 2006.

Carr, Jay. "'Jefferson' delivers history lesson without drama." Boston Globe 7 April 1995: 89.

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

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.

Dauphin, Gary. "Master Strokes -- Jefferson in Paris." Village Voice 4 April 1995: 50.

Dudar, Helen. "Merchant Ivory's special take on Thomas Jefferson." Smithsonian 25.12 (1995): 94-105.

Ebert, Roger. "Jefferson in Paris." Chicago Sun-Times 7 April 1995.

Egerton, Douglas R. Rev. of Jefferson in Paris. American Historical Review 100.4 (1995): 1202-3.

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. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v396/n6706/full/396027a0.html

Gilbert, Matthew. "The merchants of cinematic ivory." Boston Globe 2 April 1995: B21.

Glieberman, Owen. "Continental Congress." EW.com 7 April 1995.

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.

Guthmann, Edward. "Jefferson Gets Lost in Paris: Merchant-Ivory keep audience after class in history lecture." SFGate.com 7 April 1995.

Hamilton, William. “Jefferson in Paris -- An Insult to Thomas Jefferson.” NPR: Morning Edition. 4 April, 1995.

Hinson, Hal. "In Pursuit of Happiness; A Party-Hopping 'Jefferson in Paris'." Washington Post 7 April 1995: D7.

Hipsky, Martin A. "Anglophil(m)ia: Why Does America Watch Merchant-Ivory Movies?" Journal of Popular Film & Television 22.3 (1994): 98-107.

Holmstrom, David. "Scholars Flip Their Wigs Over Film's Portrayal of Jefferson in Paris." Christian Science Monitor 10 April 1995.

James, Caryn. "They're Movies, Not Schoolbooks." New York Times 21 May 1995: 2.1.

Jefferson in Paris French Revolution Francaise 1789 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOuhEdi7zAU

Jefferson in Paris French Revolution Francaise 1995 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyOW0v9buQk&feature=related

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. Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway. Ed. John P. Kaminski. Madison: Madison House, 1999.

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

Jefferson, Thomas. “Dialogue between My Head and My Heart.” Mr. Jefferson's Women by Jon Kukla. New York: Knopf, 2007. 202-14.

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

Joyner, Will. "Studies in the Lives of Slaves." New York Times 19 November 1995: 2.30.

Kaminski, John P. Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway. Madison: Madison House, 1999.

Karsten, Eileen. From Real Life to Reel Life: A Filmography of Biographical Films. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1993.

Kimball, Marie. Jefferson: The Scene of Europe, 1784 to 1789. New York: Coward-McCann, 1950.

Kukla, John. Mr. Jefferson's Women. New York: Knopf, 2007.

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

Lloyd, Stephen, with Roy Porter, and Aileen Ribeiro. Richard & Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion. Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1995.

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

McCarthy, Todd. "Jefferson in Paris." Variety 27 March 1995.

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/

Morrison, James (updated by Rob Edelman). "James Ivory." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Ha-Ji/Ivory-James.html

Newnham, David. " Portrait: True Grit; Did Thomas Jefferson, revered founding father, have a love affair with a slave? The suggestion, made in a new film, has outraged America." Guardian 3 June 1995: 36.

Newnham, David. "Portrait: True Grit; Did Thomas Jefferson, revered founding father, have a love affair with a slave?" Guardian 3 June 1995: 36.

Pawelczak, Andy. "Jefferson in Paris." Films in Review 46. 5-6; (1995): 55.

Persall, Steve. "A boring view from abroad." St. Petersburg Times 21 April 1995: 8.

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

Rickey, Carrie. "Nolte's Jefferson in Paris: Robust Man of Affairs." Philadelphia Inquirer 7 April 1995: 7.

Rickey, Carrie. "Specialists in Period Films Draw Some Fire over Their Latest." Philadelphia Inquirer 9 April 1995: M1.

Riding, Alan. “Getting It Right and Going Light on the History.” New York Times 3 July 1994: 2, 9, 17.

Ringle, Ken. "Sage of Monticello, or Fool on a Hill?" Washington Post 9 April 1995: G4.

Ringle, Ken. "Taking Liberties with Jefferson." Washington Post 24 August 1994: B1.

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.

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)

Schickel, Richard. "The Pursuit of Stuffiness." Time 10 April 1995.

Shackelford, George Green. Thomas Jefferson’s Travels in Europe, 1784-1789. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1995.

Shone, Tom. “Style but no discontent.” The Sunday Times (London) 18 June 1995.

Shulgasser, Barbara. "Disjointed meanderings of 'Jefferson in Paris'." SFGate.com 7 April 1995.

Simon, John. "Jefferson in Paris." National Review 1 May 1995.

Staloff, Darren. Rev. of Jefferson in Paris. William and Mary Quarterly 52 (1995): 750-53.

Staples, Brent. “Editorial Notebook: Thomas Jefferson and ‘Dashing Sally’; In Loveâ€"or Just Master and Slave?” New York Times 18 April 1995: A24.

Sterritt, David. "Jefferson in Paris, a Personal Portrait." Christian Science Monitor 4 April 1995: 13.

"The Story on Page One." Episode 219 of Family Guy. http://watchfamilyguyonline.org/movie/14-Family_Guy_219_The_Story_on_Page_One.html

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

Tookey, Christopher. "Love Slave in a Paris Match." (London) Daily Mail 16 June 1995: 45.

Travers, Peter. Rev. of Jefferson in Paris. Rolling Stone 20 April 1995: 89.

Van Pelt, Charles B. “Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway.” American Heritage 22.5 (1971).

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

Welsh, Jim. "Jefferson in Love." Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History. Ed. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2003. 50-61.

Zibart, Eve. "Jefferson in Paris." Washington Post 7 April 1995.