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| | Jefferson and His Legacy |
 | | Historians Joseph Ellis and Annette Gordon-Reed, two of the contributors to Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty (Viking Studio, 2000), the companion volume to the Library of Congress's Bicentennial exhibition about Thomas Jefferson, will discuss Jefferson on Tuesday, July 25, in the West Dining Room, sixth floor, James Madison Memorial Building, at 6 p.m. |
 | | Joseph J. Ellis, professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, is the author of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, which won the National Book Award, and Founding Brothers: Stories from the Early Republic, which will be published this fall by Alfred A. Knopf. |
 | | Professor of law at New York Law School, Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy and is currently at work on a history of the Hemings family, to be published by W.W. Norton. |
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