Facing the Past, Shaping the Future with Annette Gordon-Reed

Join us on Thursday, April 2, at 6 p.m. for a conversation with acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed. She is best known for her work at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and for exploring hidden American stories. A Thomas Jefferson scholar, Gordon-Reed, will talk extensively about her work and how it applies to the world today.

From legal and racial issues to extensive research on Thomas Jefferson and his life, Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking work in bringing lesser-known American stories to light has been essential to pulling the curtain back on hidden American history.

This program is held in conjunction with our forthcoming exhibit, Making Amends, which explores America’s progress toward a “more perfect union” through the history of all 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The program will be available on the Clinton Center’s YouTube channel the following day.

ASL interpretation is available during our events.

Clinton Presidential Center Presents is a partnership between the Clinton Foundation, Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas, and Clinton Presidential Library.

More about Annette Gordon-Reed

She is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Gordon-Reed won 16 book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008). She is the author of six books, and editor of two. She was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queen’s College) 2014-2015, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow at Queen’s in 2021. Gordon-Reed served as the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and is currently president of the Organization of American Historians. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the National Humanities Medal. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Academy.

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