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On juneteenth author gordon reed5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Registration for this program is required and a valid email address is required at time of registration. ![]() She is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy and The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in History and National Book Award for Nonfiction.Ĭopies of On Juneteenth will be available for purchase courtesy of the Learned Owl Book Shop. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Gordon-Reed provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. ![]() This is a one-time event and will not be recorded. The book tells the sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, and was named one of the Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 and one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, TIME, NPR, and others. Join the Hudson Library and Historical Society and Pulitzer-prize winning historian and author Annette Gordon-Reed for a live virtual discussion on the holiday and her book On Juneteenth. ![]()
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