Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and NYT Bestselling author, Prof. Annette Gordon-Reed, joins Morning Joe to discuss a new collection of Thomas Jefferson's writings on race.

"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 ...

Annette Gordon-Reed will present Jefferson on Race: A Reader at the Free Library of Philadelphia on May 7, 2026. This event is part of the library's Spring Author Events Series, featuring a diverse ...

More than a decade ago, the historian Annette Gordon-Reed explored the controversial relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings in a book arguing that Jefferson's slave was also the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is New York Law School's Annette Gordon-Reed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning law professor/historian, on President Obama's Supreme Court "short list"? Or, Alabama lawyer Bryan Stevenson, a MacArthur ...

On the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University on March 12, a group of historians and scholars discussed the meaning of the 250th anniversary of America in this fraught ...

In this episode, David Rubenstein explores the role of First Ladies in the White House with historian Annette Gordon-Reed and journalists Jonathan Alter and the late Cokie Roberts. Untold is a free ...

Thomas Jefferson has long been a lightning rod, but the past year has been tougher on him than usual. Protesters on college campuses have plastered Jefferson statues with Post-it notes reading “racist ...

Introduction: North and south -- Part I. Patriarch -- Home -- Plantation -- Virginia -- Part II. Traveller -- France -- Looking homeward -- Politics -- Part III ...