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 ...

Pulitzer prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed has written a new book all about that historic day on June 19, 1865. Here’s Walter Isaacson speaking to her about what the holiday means and her ...

LENOX -- Annette Gordon-Reed will lecture about her award-winning book "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," on Monday, Aug. 17, at 4 p.m. at The Mount's air-conditioned historic stable.

Annette Gordon-Reed is an historian and University Professor at Harvard, and remembers her great-grandmother sharing the story of how her mother was born into slavery and freed as a child. Gordon-Reed ...