Annette Gordon-Reed

Gordon-Reed, a professor of legal history at Harvard, is the author, with Peter S. Onuf, of Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.

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Thomas Jefferson's Vision of Equality Was Not All-Inclusive. But It Was Transformative

Thomas Jefferson began life in a monarchy, under the reign of George II, in one of Britain’s North American colonies—Virginia. In this monarchical system everyone knew his or her place, with little expectation of being...

By Annette Gordon-Reed

We Keep Seeking Inclusion

'Standing still has not been the American way'

By Annette Gordon-Reed

A Different View on Harvard Law's Shield

We should remember our ties to the American story of slavery

By Annette Gordon-Reed
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