Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. This program is presented by Humanities Texas, LBJ Presidential Library, and the History Department at The University of Texas at Austin.Īnnette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. We welcome your comments on our Facebook and YouTube channels. We will not be taking questions during the program. Please submit your questions in advance, as part of the registration form below, to help streamline the program. Registrants will receive a link early Thursday to attend the event. The program will air at 7:00 pm CDT on Thursday, June 17. Daina Ramey Berry, Chair of the History Department at The University of Texas at Austin, will moderate the discussion. In her new book On Juneteenth, the historian and Texas native examines the Lone Star State roots of Juneteenth and its continuing importance to the fight for racial equity. Join us for an evening with Harvard Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed. As our nation verges on recognizing June 19 as a national holiday, On Juneteenth is both an essential account and a stark reminder that the fight for equality is exigent and ongoing.Thursday, J7:00 p.m.
In its concision, eloquence, and clear presentation of history, On Juneteenthvitally revises conventional renderings of Texas and national history. Significantly, they shared the land with Indigenous people who faced their own conflicts with EuropeanAmericans, creating a volatile racial tableau whose legacies still haunt usReworking the traditional "Alamo" framework, she shows how the contentious history of the Lone Star State can provide us with a fresh and illuminating perspective on our country's past and its possible futures. Combining personal anecdotes with poignant facts gleaned from the annals of American history, Gordon-Reed shows how, from the earliest presence of Black people in Texas to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of legalized slavery in the state, AfricanAmericans played an integral role in the Texas story. All too aware of the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long dominated the lore of the Lone Star State, Gordon-Reed-herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas as early as the 1820s-forges a new and profoundly truthful narrative of her home state, one with implications for us all. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the nation's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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