Friday, July 3, 2009

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Annette Gordon-Reed: "The Hemingses of Monticello" (Norton) (Rebroadcast)

10 a.m. (ET)

A decade ago, DNA evidence corroborated Annette Gordon-Reed's controversial assertion that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. Her latest book won the National Book Award and gives the most comprehensive...

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2009-07-03/andrea-wulf-brother-gardeners-knopf-rebroadcast

Andrea Wulf: "The Brother Gardeners" (Knopf) (Rebroadcast)

11 a.m. (ET)

How a colonial American farmer with a passion for plants and a group of eighteenth century explorers, botanists, and collectors triggered the English obsession with gardens and gardening.

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