Annette Gordon-Reed doesn’t have to read a history book to understand the importance of Juneteenth. The Texas native grew up hearing stories from her family. “My great-grandmother knew people who had ...
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 ...
Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” offers a moving history of African American life and culture through the prism of Juneteenth. The award-winning Harvard historian ...
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 ...
The legacy of Juneteenth, America’s new holiday that marks the end of slavery, continues to influence our understanding of freedom and our fight for racial justice. Annette Gordon-Reed, a MacArthur ...
The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year. Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. With “On ...
An 1867 Bible, three dresses and other artifacts at the Witte Museum once belonged to Sarah Tate, who was enslaved at age 41 and living east of San Antonio when news of emancipation reached Texas. In ...
Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's "On Juneteenth" offers a moving history of African American life and culture through the prism of Juneteenth. The award-winning Harvard historian ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University Combining history and memoir, Annette ...