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Annette Gordon-Reed

What to read for Juneteenth

John Fea   |  June 19, 2024

Still unfamiliar with Juneteenth? Get up to speed here. The Atlantic offers some reading suggestions, including this take on Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth: Back in 2021, about a month before Juneteenth became a federal holiday, The Atlantic published an excerpt from Annette Gordon-Reed’s […]

What is going on at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello?

John Fea   |  May 26, 2024

In January, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed resigned from the board of Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson. Here is a taste of Jason Armesto’s January 2, 2024 piece at The Daily Progress: It is not clear why Gordon-Reed, […]

Annette Gordon-Reed on race in America

John Fea   |  August 3, 2022

Chris Lehmann interviews the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Forum. Here is a taste: Chris Lehmann: In your recent book, On Juneteenth, you wrote very powerfully about the kind of stories that need to be told with regard to your experience growing […]

“Slavery” or “involuntary relocation?”

John Fea   |  July 1, 2022

Here is Brian Lopez at The Texas Tribune: A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction, but board members have […]

Annette Gordon-Reed talks race and American history

John Fea   |  July 13, 2021

Here is a taste of Chauncey DeVega’s interview with Gordon-Reed at Salon: Why are so many (white) people upset by basic facts about the color line and its centrality to American history? Guilt. That is why there are people who […]

Can the “spirit of 1776 survive the history wars of 2021?”

John Fea   |  July 3, 2021

America’s 250th anniversary is coming. It should be interesting. Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times: The story historians tell about the American Revolution has changed enormously since the Bicentennial. Uplifting biographies of the founding fathers may still […]