Now playing · Tue Oct 6 · 6:30pm
WBUR CitySpace: Richard Kurin
Richard Kurin, a Smithsonian scholar, discusses History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving of a 200-Year-Old Mystery, on the strand of hair found in Jefferson's Bible and what DNA analysis can settle about whether he fathered Sally Hemings's children. Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello, joins him.