Annette Gordon-Reed

The Struggle For Democracy in America: From the Founding Era to Our Own

Thursday, March 31, 2022
5 p.m. Eastern, Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall

Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School, and the award-winning author of six books. The first African-American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for history, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, she is also the author of On Juneteenth, which sets out to capture the importance of the holiday to American history. Gordon-Reed’s honors include the National Humanities Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2019, she was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.