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New Book Claims to Solve Jefferson-Hemings Mystery

Original: 📚️ 🧬 🇺🇸 History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery "In this riveting narrative—

A new narrative by Richard Kurin, scholar and museum official, recounts a fifteen-year scientific and historical investigation into Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, drawing on DNA and hair evidence to address the two-century-old question of their relationship and descendants. Early readers describe it as part detective story, part historical epic, and it is drawing attention among history and science audiences.

Why now: Fresh DNA-based evidence on a famous unresolved question in American history has renewed public interest.

Thomas JeffersonSally HemingsRichard Kurin

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• 📚️ 🧬 🇺🇸 History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery "In this riveting narrative—part scientific detective story, part historical epic—Richard Kurin, distinguished scholar and museum official, leads readers through the fifteen-year-long… · bibliolater@vivaldi.net · 4

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