African-American, persons with any amount of African ancestry, and was adopted into twentieth-century U.S. state laws, such as in 1924 in Virginia. His synthesis, White Over Black, looked at the history of race relations in the United States, and was influential for its assessment of issues of interracial sexuality. In assessing allegations about Thomas Jefferson and a liaison with his slave, Jordan was the first historian to use Dumas Malone's timeline of Jefferson's activities to demonstrate that he was at Monticello for the conception of each of Sally Hemings' children. In 1982, Jordan relocated to the University of Mississippi, where he was the William F. Winter Professor of History and Afro-American Studies for more than 20 years. While there he influenced many graduate and undergraduate students. Marriage and family He married Phyllis Henry. They had three sons Joshua, Mott, and Eliot Jordan, and later divorced. With his second marriage in 1982 to attorney and author Cora Miner Reilly (d. January 10, 2011), Winthrop Jordan became the stepfather of Stephen, Michael, and Mary Beth Reilly. He and Cora Jordan helped to found the first official Quaker meeting in the state of Mississippi. A few years after his 2004 retirement, Jordan died in his Oxford, Mississippi home at the age of 75 after suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease and liver cancer for several years. Legacy and honors In 2005, some of Jordan's former students published a collection of essays inspired by his influence, entitled Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion. 2007, his former students established the Winthrop Jordan Memorial Research Fund "to further Professor Jordan's legacy of teaching, scholarship, and philanthropy by supporting graduate student research in slavery, race, religion, and sexuality." References External links "Winthrop Jordan Fund", University of Mississippi "Winthrop Jordan", Bancroft Prize Winners, Columbia University 1931 births 2007 deaths Harvard University alumni Clark University alumni Brown University alumni 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Historians of slavery Historians of the American Revolution Historians of the Southern United States History of the Thirteen Colonies National Book Award winners Phillips Exeter Academy faculty Deaths from motor neuron disease Neurological disease deaths in Mississippi Writers from Worcester, Massachusetts Deaths from liver cancer Deaths from cancer in Mississippi Historians from Massachusetts Bancroft Prize winners American male non-fiction writers