An Evening with Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed, a Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author and legal scholar, is a preeminent historian of Thomas Jefferson, early America, law, politics, and slavery. Join us for an in-depth conversation about her life and career, including her monumental scholarship on Sally Hemings and the clash between Jefferson’s philosophy and lived reality.

Annette Gordon-Reed, a trustee of the New-York Historical Society, is Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and a professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. David M. Rubenstein (moderator), co-founder and co-executive chairman of the Carlyle Group, is the author of The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians.