Is Thomas Jefferson to be deplored as a slave-owner who had a family with a young woman he owned or is he to be celebrated as one of the country’s most essential and gifted founders?  Or, should he be both—condemned and revered?

That is the question Annette Gordon-Reed, the brilliant Harvard law professor, historian, and author of the Pulitzer prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello:  An American Family, has long wrestled with.  In conversation with SVWC associate director Anne Taylor Fleming, Gordon-Reed reflects on her evolving feelings about Jefferson and on the moral responsibility of the historian, and talks about her recent memoir, On Juneteenth, a stirring remembrance of growing up black in Texas. Hers is the rare wise and nuanced voice we need in today’s overheated culture.

Este episodio ya está disponible y se puede reproducir desde el sitio web del SVWC en nuestra página Podcasts o desde otras plataformas públicas de podcast, como Apple, Stitcher y Spotify.Presentado por el Director Literario del SVWC, John Burnham Schwartz, y en colaboración con LitHub, el podcastSVWC Beyond the Page explora charlas de conferencias anteriores y se pone al día con nuestros antiguos alumnos escritores, entretejiendo las ideas de los escritores en un episodio de media hora dos veces al mes.

Crédito de la foto: Barbi Reed