Annette Gordon-Reed

The Hemingses of Monticello

An American Family

Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ...

"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle Finalist for the George Washington Prize Finalist for...

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

An American Controversy

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On Juneteenth

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize–winni...

Andrew Johnson

The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed fr...

Race on Trial

Law and Justice in American History

This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are...

Slavery and the American South

Essays and Commentaries

In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a domi...

Vernon Can Read!

A Memoir

From the civil rights revolution to the halls of power, the best-selling life story of a truly larger-than-life figure, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr....

A Slave in the White House

Paul Jennings and the Madisons

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Vernon Can Read! A Memoir

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Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

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