Congratulations are in order for author and historian Annette Gordon-Reed, whose book “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History. Ms. Gordon-Reed, who also wrote “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” was the Speaker at BHS’ Annual Library Dinner in March. She delivered an amazing speech on the lives of the Hemings family, including much about Sally Hemings, who bore seven children by Thomas Jefferson. Again, congratulations from BHS and we hope that Ms. Gordon-Reed will return to the BHS Library when she begins to research for her next book.