# Radcliffe on the Road: Rescuing the Past and Future at Jefferson’s Monticello #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 8, 2014** 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **New York–Union Square 201 Park Avenue South, between East 17th and 18th Streets New York, NY 10003** [Dean Lizabeth Cohen](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/lizabeth-cohen-dean) of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University invites you to attend a reception and lecture by: [](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/annette-gordon-reed-0) ![annette-gordon-reed_photo-by-kris-snibbe-harvard-staff-photographer_340px.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/history/files/annette-gordon-reed_photo-by-kris-snibbe-harvard-staff-photographer_340px.jpg?itok=iFpXYnDq) 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](https://secure.post.harvard.edu/olc/pub/HAA/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=177483) If you have questions, please contact Alyssa Sullivan at or 617-496-1084. Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard Alumni Association See also:- [ Elsewhere at Harvard ](/events/elsewhere) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/266076/event-feed.ics) Copy link link