Annette Gordon-Reed

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study the nature of professionalism in American society…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will examine the operation of the Fourth, Fifth, and to…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam What is a Constitution? Why, and under what circumstances, do people make them? What about the United States and…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study the nature of professionalism in American society…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-Home This course is designed to consider the development of American law from the time of the founding of the…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Estebanico’s America, The Atlantic (June 2021).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Writing About the Past That Made Us: Scholars, Civic Culture, and the American Present and Future, 131 Yale L. J. 782 (2022) (reviewing…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories, Atlantic, (May 4, 2021)…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, 106 J. Afr. Am. Hist. (2021) (book review).

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Color Line, N.Y. Rev. Books, Aug. 19, 2021, at 26 (reviewing W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: The Color Line…

Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter S. Onuf, The Nation-State in a Changing World: Epilogue, 78 Wm. & Mary Q. 275 (2021).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Critiquing the Family Tree: White Supremacy in the Writing of History, in Carving out a Humanity: Race, Rights, and Redemption (Janet Dewart Bell…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Sally Hemings: Writing the Life of an Enslaved Woman, in The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories (Janelle Hobson, ed., 2021)…

Annette Gordon-Reed, “That Woman” Fawn Brodie and Thomas Jefferson’s Intimate History, in Thomas Jefferson’s Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History 265 (Robert M.S. McDonald,…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Rebellious History, 67 N.Y. Rev. Books, Oct. 22, 2020, at 4 (reviewing Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Book Review, 40 J. Early Republic 564 (2020) (reviewing Jonathan Gienapp, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (2018)).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Foreword to Racism in America: A Reader, at xvii (2020).

Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth (2021).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Message for the World: The Idea of Hope in the Wake of the Global Protests Against Racism, TLS, June 26, 2020, at 18.

Annette Gordon-Reed, Preparing to Move On in a Time of Losses, Wall St. J., May 2, 2020.

Annette Gordon-Reed, Righting Wrongs: What Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Had in Common, N.Y. Times, April 26, 2020, at BR10 (reviewing Peniel E.

Annette Gordon-Reed, Afterword to In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship (Jon Meacham ed.,…

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Problem of Police Powers for People Living While Black, NYR Daily (June 13, 2020).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Words, Time, Mar. 2, 2020, at 46.

Annette Gordon-Reed, “Take Care of Me When Dead”: Jefferson Legacies, 40 J. Early Republic 1 (2020).

Annette Gordon-Reed, What Jefferson Couldn’t Teach, Atlantic, Dec. 2019, at 120 (reviewing Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson’s Education (2019)).

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Real Texas, N.Y. Rev. Books, Oct. 24, 2019, at 20 (reviewing Larry McMurty, In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (1968), Lawrence…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Foreword, in Robert D. Jacobus, Black Man in the Huddle: Stories from the Integration of Texas Football (Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2019).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Might vs. Right: The Development of the Eurocentric ‘Law of Nations’, Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 28, 2018, at 12 (reviewing Jennifer Pitts, Boundaries…

Annette Gordon-Reed, MLK: What We Lost, N.Y. Rev. Books, Nov. 8, 2018, at 48 (reviewing Michael K. Honey, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Opinion, At Long Last, Sally Hemings in the Spotlight, N.Y. Times, June 16, 2018, at A23.

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Captive Aliens Who Remain Our Shame, N.Y. Rev. Books, Jan. 19, 2017, at 54 (reviewing Robert Parkinson, The Common Cause: Creating Race…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Hot Ticket: The Biggest Show in Washington 150 Years Ago was President Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Hearings, Smithsonian, Jan. 2018, at 22.

Annette Gordon-Reed, Female Trouble, N.Y. Rev. Books, Feb. 8, 2018, at 12 (reviewing Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened (2018)).

Annette Gordon-Reed, America’s Original Sin: Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy, Foreign Aff., Jan. 1, 2018, at 2.

Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Teaching, N.Y. Times, July 4, 2017, at A21.

Annette Gordon-Reed, Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past, N.Y. Times Book Rev., Sept. 24, 2017, at 20.

Annette Gordon-Reed, Our Trouble with Sex: A Christian Story?, N.Y. Rev. Books, Aug. 17, 2017, at 33 (reviewing Geoffrey R. Stone, Sex and the Constitution:…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Legacy. What is a legacy?, 66 Hist. Today, Nov. 2016, at 4.

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Persuader: What Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrought, The New Yorker, June 13, 2011, at 120 (reviewing David S. Reynolds, Mightier Than the Sword:…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Celia’s Case (1857), in Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History 48 (Annette Gordon-Reed ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2002).

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Phenomenon: W.E.B. Dubois, in Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness 149 (Walter Isaacson ed., W.W. Norton & Co.

Annette Gordon-Reed, History and Memory: A Critique of the Foote Vision, in American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and his Classic the Civil War: A…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Foreword to Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons at xv (St. Martin’s Press 2012).

Peter S. Onuf & Annette Gordon-Reed, Introduction to Lucia C. Stanton, “Those Who Labor for My Happiness“: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello at vii (Univ.

Annette Gordon-Reed, First Couple, N.Y. Times Book Rev., Dec. 6, 2015, at 36)(reviewing Flora Fraser, The Washingtons: George and Martha, “Join’d by Friendship, Crown’d by…