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 ...

Daina Ramey Berry is the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor and chair of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include “The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GORDON-REED: It’s more complicated when they were in France because when she was in France with him, he was serving as the Minister to France. She had the opportunity to be a free person.