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Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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Nation & World
‘You can’t let your emotions overtake you so much that you can’t do the work’
Interview with Professor Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as part of the Experience series.
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Nation & World
How it really happened
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed was at the Ed Portal to talk about her scholarship on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
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Nation & World
The ‘last Renaissance man’
In the second of three lectures on founding father Thomas Jefferson, historian William J. Moses probed the stark contrasts that the third president showed in his writings and behavior, in his character and his intellect.
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Nation & World
On the nature of difference
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds discussed her book “The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics” before 50 students as part of Wintersession activities.
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Nation & World
Race in America, made personal
In a discussion at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, author and historian Annette Gordon-Reed discussed the next installment of her work on the complicated history involving Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
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Nation & World
Heading for Congress
Twenty-four incoming members of Congress visited the Harvard Kennedy School this week for a four-day conference to help prepare them for their new jobs.
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Nation & World
Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur Award
Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur award, which she plans to use to further her research on race in America.
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Nation & World
Triple appointment for historian
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed will return to Harvard in July as a professor at the Law School and of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She also will be the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
