One of the things he discusses with his historian guests, Yale’s David Blight and Harvard’s Annette Gordon-Reed, is the Declaration of Independence, which both historians called a “dangerous document” ...

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 ...

"Johnson was an important president at a pivotal moment in history," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed said in a recent telephone interview from New York. Gordon-Reed's biography on ...

I f you had to map the dream career of an aspiring historian, it would go something like this: First, stake out an unconventional position on a consequential question. Second, ignore the scholarly ...

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. She teaches at Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. This interview ...

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Introduction: "The true index of his heart" -- The tailor's apprentice -- Ascent -- Governor and Senator Johnson -- Disunion -- From military governor to vice president -- Mr. President -- The ...

A new book by historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the former US president’s writings on race throughout his life Thomas Jefferson’s interactions with enslaved people bookend his life. The third US ...

Here are ways Florida’s advanced high school history program, which students can use for college credit, differs from other curriculums. By Dana Goldstein The Times’s staff critics give their choices ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Annette Gordon-Reed was a Professor for History in the Harvard University with 52 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Forum as a Professor for ...

Annette Gordon-Reed is a Harvard professor of law and history and biographer of Andrew Johnson. A MacArthur Fellow, Gordon-Reed received the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Hemingses of ...