June 19, 2023
|George Washington Carver Museum Center
Juneteenth Celebration Event with Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed
A conversation with Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, followed by a reception and book signing
Date & Location
June 19, 2023
George Washington Carver Museum Center, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
About the Event
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008).
In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (UVA Press, 1997), Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, a collaboration with Vernon Jordan (PublicAffairs, 2001), Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History (Oxford University Press, 2002), a volume of essays that she edited, Andrew Johnson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010) and, with Peter S. Onuf, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (Liveright Publishing, 2016). Her most recent book is On Juneteenth (Liveright Publishing, 2021), which was reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review.
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