Radcliffe on the Road: Rescuing the Past and Future at Jefferson’s Monticello
Date and Time
October 8, 2014
06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT
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:
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