Published March 21. 2026 05:40AM<\/p>\n
Acclaimed historian, author, and Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University, Annette Gordon-Reed, will be the keynote speaker for Northampton Community College\u2019s (NCC) Annual Humanities Program, 7 p.m. April 14.<\/p>\n
NCC\u2019s Annual Humanities Theme for 2025-2026, \u201cWe the People: Reflecting Back, Building Forward,\u201d honors the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n
The program builds upon NCC\u2019s original designation by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a \u201cWe the People\u201d institution.<\/p>\n
Annette Gordon-Reed has won 16 book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009. For her work, \u201cThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,\u201d she\u2019s been awarded the National Book Award in 2008, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the George Washington Book Prize in 2009.<\/p>\n
In addition to articles, essays and reviews, her works include \u201cThomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy\u201d and \u201cRace on Trial: Law and Justice in American History.\u201d Her newest book, \u201cJefferson on Race: A Reader\u201d is published in March by Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n
Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015 and was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.<\/p>\n
Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Humanities Medal.<\/p>\n
The event is free and is open to the public.<\/p>\n
To reserve tickets: https:\/\/Northampton.edu\/Keynote2026<\/p>\n
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