Change in scholarship must be reflected in this article As the MacArthur Foundation said in its 2010 announcement of a fellowship to Annette Gordon Reed who wrote Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings An American Controversy her persistent investigation into the life of an iconic American president has dramatically changed the course of Jeffersonian scholarship Annette Gordon Reed MacArthur Foundation Her Pulitzer Prize winning history The Hemings of Monticello An American Family provided more information on Jefferson and Hemings and reflected early American society That s why we have to reflect that change in scholarship in this article including in the lede