A new book by historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the former US president’s writings on race throughout his life ...

"Johnson was an important president at a pivotal moment in history," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed said in a recent telephone interview from New York. Gordon-Reed's biography on ...

I f you had to map the dream career of an aspiring historian, it would go something like this: First, stake out an unconventional position on a consequential question. Second, ignore the scholarly ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson has long been a lightning rod, but the past year has been tougher on him than usual. Protesters on college campuses have plastered Jefferson statues with Post-it notes reading “racist ...

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 ...

On the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival on March 12, a group of historians and scholars discussed the meaning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is New York Law School's Annette Gordon-Reed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning law professor/historian, on President Obama's Supreme Court "short list"? Or, Alabama lawyer Bryan Stevenson, a MacArthur ...

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 ...