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Annette 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...

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“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...

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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...

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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...

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Joe Biden meets with American historians at the White House

John Fea   |  March 25, 2021

The court historians? Those in attendance included Jon Meacham, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, Michael Eric Dyson, Joanne Freeman, Eddie Glaude Jr, Annette Gordon Reed, and Walter Isaacson. Mike Allen at Axios reports that everyone wore masks. The topics discussed...

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A George Whitefield statue is coming down at the University of Pennsylvania

John Fea   |  July 31, 2020

George Whitefield was arguably the most popular man in colonial America. His preaching was the catalyst for the colonial-wide evangelical revival that historians call the “First Great Awakening.” Recently, the University of Pennsylvania decided to remove a Whitefield statue on...

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Wilfred McClay on Historical Monuments

John Fea   |  June 27, 2020

Whether you agree or disagree with him, Wilfred McClay is always thoughtful. If I see his byline at First Things or another conservative outlet, I will always read the article. As one of America’s best conservative historians (not a historian...

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Ken Burns on Monuments

John Fea   |  June 25, 2020

The documentary filmmaker recently appeared on Chris Cuomo’s show on CNN. Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOwrd2kRQcA&w=560&h=315] I tend to agree with Burns’s case-by-case approach. I am also with Annette Gordon-Reed on non-Confederate monuments....

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Gordon-Reed: “There are far more dangerous threats to history” than the removal of monuments

John Fea   |  June 23, 2020

What should we do with Confederate monuments? Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed offers her thoughts at The Harvard Gazette: Gordon-Reed on whether the removal of Confederate statues dishonors the memory of those who died fighting for the Confederacy: I would...

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The 1619 Project: Debate Continues

John Fea   |  January 25, 2020

When we last left the debate on the 1619 Project, Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz leveled more criticism of the project in a piece at The Atlantic.   Social media historians (and some non-historians who are advancing informed and not-so-informed opinions)...

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Annette Gordon-Reed Reviews Alan Taylor’s New Book on Jefferson and Education

John Fea   |  November 11, 2019

When a Pultizer-Prize-winning American historian reviews a new book from another Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian it is worth a separate post here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Taylor’s book is titled Thomas Jefferson’s Education.  Here is a taste of Gordon-Reed’s review at The...

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David Blight Wins the Pulitzer Prize for History

John Fea   |  April 15, 2019

The Pulitzer Prize for History was just awarded to David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.  Blight’s book was chosen by a committee made up of historians Annette Gordon-Reed, Markus Rediker, and Tiya Miles.  Learn more here....

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It’s Official: Monticello Affirms Thomas Jefferson Fathered Children with Sally Hemings

John Fea   |  June 13, 2018

It was announced on June 6, 2018.  Here is the press release: The issue of Jefferson’s paternity has been the subject of controversy for at least two centuries, ranging from contemporary newspaper articles in 1802 (when Jefferson was President) to...

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Annette Gordon Reed: Why Jefferson Matters in the Wake of Charlottesville

John Fea   |  August 19, 2017

I have been trying to say something like this throughout the week, but I can’t say it as well or with the expertise and authority of  Annette Gordon-Reed: Today, a time of intense focus on the personal and of misplaced...

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FOUND: The Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings

John Fea   |  July 4, 2017

She was mother to six of Thomas Jefferson’s children.  She was also Thomas Jefferson’s slave.  Archaeologists at Monticello have discovered the living quarters of Sally Hemings. Here is a taste of a report from NBC News: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Archaeologists...

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Are the Founding Fathers Back In Vogue?

John Fea   |  June 30, 2017

Earlier today we posted a video of a session on race and monuments from the Aspen Ideas Festival. Here is another video from the Festival that will be of interest to readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home.  The...

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Annette Gordon-Reed on Why Monuments to Thomas Jefferson are Not in Jeopardy

John Fea   |  June 30, 2017

Earlier this Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Jefferson scholar Annette Gordon-Reed was part of a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival on race, monuments, and the Civil War. She was joined by  poet Elizabeth Alexander and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu....

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How Does Annette Gordon-Reed Write?

John Fea   |  May 22, 2017

She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family and she was a guest on episode of eight of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. And have I mentioned that she gave the 2012 American...

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Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson: “I now see him with a bit more humility, recognizing how hard it is to do anything, how hard it is to accomplish things”

John Fea   |  May 4, 2017

  The Harvard Gazette is running a long interview with Pulitzer Prize winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed.  Over the course of the interview she talks about her childhood, her escape from the ashes of the World Trade Center on 9-11, and...

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Plenary Sessions Announced for the 2017 Conference of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History in Dallas

John Fea   |  April 13, 2017

The folks at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History have been putting together some great annual conferences of late.  The 2017 meeting in Dallas is shaping up to be a real intellectual history-fest. I was recently asked to participate in...

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