Radcliffe on the Road: Rescuing the Past and Future at Jefferson’s Monticello

Date: 

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 6:00pm

Location: 

New York–Union Square 201 Park Avenue South, between East 17th and 18th Streets New York, NY 10003

Dean Lizabeth Cohen of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University invites you to attend a reception and lecture by:

ANNETTE GORDON-REED JD ’84, RI ’12, ’14
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute,
Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, and
professor of history at Harvard University

Monticello was the home of Thomas Jefferson and over the years, hundreds of enslaved African Americans. What does this place tell us about the American past, and what does it suggest about our capacity to go forward as a multiracial society premised on the notions of equality raised in Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence?

6 p.m., Reception
7 p.m., Program

REGISTER

If you have questions, please contact Alyssa Sullivan at events@radcliffe.harvard.edu or 617-496-1084.

Presented by:
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard Alumni Association