american legal history, and a professor of history without arts and science at harvard university. she is a drug dropping list of honors, i will read you a few. fellowship from the dorothy and lose the common center for scholars and writers at the new york public library, a guggenheim fellowship, a macarthur fellowship, the national humanities medal, and the woman of power and influence award from the national organization for women in new york city. she has written extensively on americans,nd unseen including a biography of andrew johnson, and her most recent book in paperback today is, most blessed of the patriarchs, thomas jefferson, and the empire of the imagination. when it comes to jefferson as i said earlier, we are fortunate to have dr. gordon reed here. no one knows the public and private jefferson quite as well as she does. the relationship between our third president and his own slaves is one she first exported 1997. that s both thomas jefferson and sally hemming
part of their great lives lecture series. [applause] [clears throat] wow. it is perhaps appropriate that on thomas jefferson s birthday, we bring to you one of our most prestigious speakers. one of jefferson s cleverest biographers. professor annette gordon reed is the one who definitively cracked the case, as our speaker on tuesday might have said, on one of american history s most complex and now expunged until now, expunged stories, which is the relationship between the jeffersons and the hemmings. professor gordon reed is the charles morin professor of american legal history, and a professor of history arts and science at harvard university. she has a jaw dropping list of honors, i will read you a few. fellowship from the dorothy and lose the common center for scholars and writers at the new york public library, a guggenheim fellowship, a macarthur fellowship, the national humanities medal, and the woman of power and influence award from the national organization for
how to find the best to care for their children. he recently talked about his book in washington, d.c.. an audible conversation if i could have everybody s attention, good evening. i m the co- owner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of the entire staff here, welcome. a few quick notes now would be a good time to certain you could turn off your cell phones. before you come up to get your books signetheirbooks signed thd appreciate if you would fold up chair you re sitting in and cleacleaned them up against the column or bookshelf. it really is a special pleasure for me to be hosting kurt neumann. i ve known him more than two decades when i first got involved with the children s national medical center the way that many parents do. that is when one of our kids needs help. he was a full-time practicing surgeon and you could tell he was not just interested in what he did in the operating room and the bigger picture of medical research and the advancement of c
an audible conversation if i could have everybody s attention, good evening. i m the co- owner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of the entire staff here, welcome. a few quick notes now would be a good time to certain you could turn off your cell phones. before you come up to get your books signetheirbooks signed thd appreciate if you would fold up chair you re sitting in and cleacleaned them up against the column or bookshelf. it really is a special pleasure for me to be hosting kurt neumann. i ve known him more than two decades when i first got involved with the children s national medical center the way that many parents do. that is when one of our kids needs help. he was a full-time practicing surgeon and you could tell he was not just interested in what he did in the operating room and the bigger picture of medical research and the advancement of care. he also was a people person who contacted very easily with kids and their parents and with the help
mountain: thomas jefferson and his slaves. it is a subject, which the thomas jefferson foundation has been a pioneer in researching and present a largely the collected essays published earlier this year by the university of virginia press. they re entitled by virtue my happiness, slavery of thomas jefferson s monticello is regarded as an authority on the subject. the book was released to coincide with an exhibit on slavery of monticello in the smithsonian national museum of african american history which is co-curated by the staff of the thomas jefferson foundation. 70 of the descendents of those commemorated attended the opening night. after 50 years of archaeological and historical research, thomas jefferson foundation is now in the next phase of interpretation and restoration project funded by the national endowment of humanities by private reports that the project is called the landscape of slavery, mulberry road in monticello, which includes creation of many exhibits, k