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
bring to you one of our most prestigious speakers and one of his cleverest biographers. dresser and it gordon reed is the one who definitively cracked the case as our speaker on tuesday might ve said. on one of american history both conflict and now expunged stories which is the relationship between the jeffersons and the hemmings. is theor gordon reed trolls warren professor of american legal history at harvard law school and professor of history at harvard university. she has a jaw-dropping list of honors. fellowship from the dorothy lewis b coleman center for scholars and writers at the new york public library, a guggenheim fellowship, a , and awardellowship from the national organization for women in new york city. on both seen and unseen americans, including a biography of andrew johnson in her most recent book is most blessed of the patriarchs. it comes to jefferson, were fortunate to have her here. no one knows the public and private jefferson quite as well as she does
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
landscape of slavery. you had come up this mountaintop in jefferson s time, the fist thing you would have seen most likely would have ben enslaved people. there would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. and we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. [ construction noise ]. so we re now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along the main plantation street as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. so all of this is an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who essentially made his life possible. right now we re actually just near jefferson s main house, the mansion that he built throughout his life. and we re standing next to mulberry row, the main plantation street at monticello. 1300 feet. we know that over 20 workshops, storehouses and dwellings line this street. they were enslaved families here, there were servants, hired
admissions officers know the high schools. they know which high schools are segregated, they know which high schools have a good reputation. you can have a 4.0 from central agh school, or you can have 4.0 from northpoint in tuscaloosa. admissions counselors know the difference between what that means at what school one school and at another. there is also a difference when i went to notre dame, there was a small black population. but the black population there was very well off. and it was like it was a , struggle to be both black and working-class at an institution like that. i think universities do not want to put in the work to recruit. i think they don t want to put in the work to actually help the students when they get there. when you look at the numbers on this, it is not just that they are not recruiting a lot of low income black students. they are not recruiting a lot of black american students. right? very true. ms. hannah-jones so a lot of those black numbers