Annette Gordon-Reed

How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the Klan’s rule in Indiana.

In the 1960s, Annette Gordon-Reed was the first Black child to enroll in a white school in her hometown. Now she reflects on having a new school there named for her.

The legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for an embattled republic.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

The history of Blackness on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.

Saidiya Hartman’s "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" is a strike against the archives’ silence regarding the lives of Black women in the shadow of slavery.

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

Clinton's memoir addresses the gendered discourse and larger feminist contexts of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The biggest show in Washington 150 years ago was the trial against the President of the United States.

Annette Gordon-Reed explores the ways in which the many paradoxes of Jefferson make him a potent figure for racists and anti-racists alike.

"Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century" by Geoffrey R. Stone.

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.

Eric Foner, Walter Johnson, Thavolia Glymph, and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss trends in the study of slavery and emancipation.

An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.

Stowe’s novel shifted public opinion about slavery so dramatically that it has often been credited with fuelling the war that destroyed the institution.