Some of the best books of the year so far provide welcome respite from the outside world—while others aim directly for the turbulence, providing frameworks to understand how the past informs our ...

Reed’s “On Juneteenth” explores Texas history, Black emancipation and the enduring struggle for freedom and human rights.

For history junkies who enjoy watching that kind of programming on C-SPAN3, Annette Gordon-Reed is a rock star. She’s been on that network more than three dozen times since 1997 talking about Thomas ...

Annette Gordon-Reed is a Harvard professor of law and history and biographer of Andrew Johnson. A MacArthur Fellow, Gordon-Reed received the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Hemingses of ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed, whose new book on President Andrew Johnson was released Tuesday, will participate in the third annual Festival of Books March 12-13. Gordon-Reed, a ...

Today is the national holiday of Juneteenth, and so we’ll spend the hour in conversation with Annette Gordon Reed, an author and Harvard professor from Texas, descending from slaves who were directly ...

More than a decade ago, the historian Annette Gordon-Reed explored the controversial relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings in a book arguing that Jefferson's slave was also the ...

Annette Gordon-Reed will present Jefferson on Race: A Reader at the Free Library of Philadelphia on May 7, 2026. This event is part of the library's Spring Author Events Series, featuring a diverse ...