{"tema_id":"1182","string":"Annette Gordon-Reed","created":"2019-04-22 07:23:50","code":null,"notes":[{"@type":"Historical note","@lang":"en-US","@value":"\nGordon-Reed (n\u00e9e Gordon) was born in Livingston, Texas, in 1958. She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in 1981 from Dartmouth College, and her JD in 1984 from Harvard Law School, where she worked on the\u00a0Harvard Law Review. She is currently Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, Professor of History in the Department of History at Harvard University, and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. After a period of time spent in private legal practice, first as an associate with law firm of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel in New York City, and then as legal counsel for the New York Board of Corrections, Gordon-Reed returned to Academia, teaching first at New York Law School and later at Rutgers University. In 2010, she returned to Harvard with a joint appointment in history and law. In 2014, she was appointed Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor in Queen\u2019s College at the University of Oxford.\nGordon-Reed is best known for her ground-breaking work on the Hemings family of slaves who were owned by Thomas Jefferson and lived on his Virginia plantation, Monticello. In many research articles and three best-selling books, she reviewed earlier historical research and advanced new arguments in support of the thesis that Jefferson\u2019s slave Sally Hemings was the mother of as many as six of his children. After an initial period of skepticism on the part of established white historians, Gordon-Reed\u2019s work on the complex relationship between Jefferson and Hemings has by now become very widely, if not universally, accepted by the academic historical community. In addition to her work on Jefferson and the Hemingses, she has published widely on many other topics of early American history, including a book on Lincoln\u2019s Vice Present and seventeenth President of the US, Andrew Johnson. She also assisted the prominent civil rights activist Vernon Jordan in writing his memoir.\nThe recipient of several honorary degrees, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010, Gordon-Reed received both the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2009 for her book,\u00a0The Hemingses of Monticello. In addition to her books, she is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles in edited volumes and in such academic journals as\u00a0Foreign Affairs,\u00a0Journal of American History, and\u00a0William and Mary Quarterly. In 2010, Gordon-Reed received the National Humanities Medal, the nation\u2019s highest award in the humanities, in a ceremony at the White House.\nPublications:\n\nThomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy\u00a0(University of Virginia Press, 1997)\nVernon Can Read! A Memoir\u00a0(Public Affairs, 2001)\nRace on Trial: Law and Justice in American History\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2002)\nThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family\u00a0(W.W. Norton, 2008)\nAndrew Johnson\u00a0(Times Books, 2011)\n\u201cMost Blessed of the Patriarchs\u201d: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination(Liveright, 2016)\n\nSource: https:\/\/thebestschools.org\/features\/black-scholars-you-should-know\/ "}]}