"Johnson was an important president at a pivotal moment in history," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed said in a recent telephone interview from New York. Gordon-Reed's biography on ...

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. She teaches at Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. This interview ...

The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year. Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. With “On ...

Professor Annette Gordon Reed chats with Eddie S. Gaude Jr. regarding Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings and the ways in which his contradictory connections with the ...

For history junkies who enjoy watching that kind of programming on C-SPAN3, Annette Gordon-Reed is a rock star. She’s been on that network more than three dozen times since 1997 talking about Thomas ...

Bittersweet reminders of this spring's flooding come back today and Friday in the forms of two literary events postponed because of the disaster. Nick Flynn rolls on to Minnesota State University ...