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Annette Gordon-Reed

@agordonreed.bsky.social

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Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 15h

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My Kind of Town by Frank Sinatra on Apple Music

Song · 2008 · Duration 3:11

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 22h

Wonderful meeting yesterday with board members of the Burns-Belfry museum in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Lengthened Dickie Betts solo?

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Blue Sky by The Allman Brothers Band on Apple Music

Song · 1972 · Duration 5:10

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 3d

The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute the house that the late Dr. Marcyliena Morgan built. I was honored to bring #LeftOfBlack to her house 12 years ago to discuss her vision for the study of HipHop Culture.

Left of Black with Marcyliena Morgan

YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!

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Thank you!

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Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4d

Music night.

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The blessing of Daisy.

Picture of our Minister blessing Daisy, our Corgi.

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 4d

A discussion about my new book, The Second Emancipation, on the PBS program The White House Chronicle, with Adam Clayton Powell III and Llewellyn King: whchronicle.com

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5d

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Refugee by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on Apple Music

Song · 1979 · Duration 3:20

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! What a great group of books. Seeing them gives me hope.

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Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 6d

THE YANKEES WIN!!!!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 7d

Dorothy Thompson was, well…Dorothy Thompson.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 7d

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 8d

Working on updating podcast episodes on the new website tonight and continually thinking about one question: how did I ever get @agordonreed.bsky.social to come on and talk about Die Hard?

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 8d

The breaking things and killing people line, I seem to recall, was a Rush Limbaugh statement. I am almost certain he used to say that on his radio program.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 9d

Now, this is good.

The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 9d

2) That’s the way it was in the old days. And people want to go back to that. Making the idea of being hostile to Black people, or other groups, socially acceptable again is the goal.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 9d

1) Part of the problem is that some people are having difficulty with the fact that racism, sexism, antisemitism, and anti-LGBTQ sentiments are seen as character flaws. Some people want to be able have those feelings without being made to feel as if they’re doing anything wrong.

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10d

As an LGBTQ American, it's Ta Nehisi Coates & Nikole Hannah-Jones' words that resonate. Klein keeps doubling-down on his nonsense, with help from people like David Remnick. You do not support, indulge people who demonize others, target them for harassment and vitriol. Full-stop. Not that hard Ezra.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

Well, that is one of the main reasons for wanting to censor history, to hide the things that have happened to Black people over the years. Other groups have suffered, of course, but slavery and Jim Crow put African-Americans in a different category altogether.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

Yes. That’s a good way to put it, not hearing what Coates was saying.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

I look forward to what you write. Yes. ‘James’ is a good novel.

Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

I should have suggested that I mean,
most African-Americans have had different experiences and have different perspectives on the question.

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