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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...