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  • Juneteenth Celebration Event with Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed
    Juneteenth Celebration Event with Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed
    June 19, 2023
    George Washington Carver Museum Center
    George Washington Carver Museum Center, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
    George Washington Carver Museum Center, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
    A conversation with Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, followed by a reception and book signing

Juneteenth Celebration Event with Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed

Join us for a conversation with the Pulitzer-winning Harvard professor,

followed by a reception and book signing

June, 19 2023 | George Washington Carver Museum Center | Austin, TX

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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

 

Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015. Between 2010 and 2015, she was the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is the current President of the Ames Foundation.

 

 A selected list of her honors includes a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Gordon-Reed served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 2010 to 2018. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and was a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2019, she was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.

 

Recent media:

 

Annette Gordon-Reed on the violence that came after slavery | Morning Joe | MSNBC

 

Anette Gordon-Reed's feature on Black America's neglected origin stories | The Atlantic

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