When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” is an unexpected book. She’s best ...

The answer, as the historian Annette Gordon-Reed explains in her new book On Juneteenth ... After all, Black Texans such as Fort Worth activist Opal Lee have campaigned to make Juneteenth a ...

See the full list. ] ON JUNETEENTH By Annette Gordon-Reed Almost every memoir could fairly be subtitled “The Education of. …” Some explicitly embrace the formulation; “The Education of ...

When she was in first grade, Annette Gordon-Reed made history. Although Brown v. Board of Education had passed a decade earlier, the school district of Conroe, Texas, where Gordon-Reed lived in ...