Faith Forum: When the Past Isn't Really the Past (and What to Do About It)

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University. Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction and 15 other prizes in 2009 for her work on the Hemings family of Monticello.