Date/Time
Date(s) - Apr 26, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Location
Nassau Presbyterian Church
61 Nassau Street
Princeton
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her book, Jefferson on Race, examining the contradictions between Thomas Jefferson’s ideals of equality and his life as a slaveholder.
Annette Gordon-Reed is a New York Times–bestselling historian and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Her books include “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” and (with Peter S. Onuf) “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.”
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