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Annette Gordon-Reed s Surprising Recollections of Texas

Annette Gordon-Reed’s Surprising Recollections of Texas Martha Yates Jones, left, and Pinkie Yates in a buggy decorated with flowers for Houston’s annual Juneteenth celebration in 1908.Credit.Reverend Jack Yates Family and Antioch Baptist Church Collection, via The African American Library at The Gregory School, Houston Public Library Buy Book ▾ By H.W. Brands Almost every memoir could fairly be subtitled “The Education of. …” Some explicitly embrace the formulation; “The Education of Henry Adams” is the second most influential memoir in American letters, after Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. “On Juneteenth,” Annette Gordon-Reed’s insightful, often touching reflection on the Black experience in Texas, starting with her own, lands between these two: less arch than Adams, more historical than Franklin.

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