Of interest - Annette Gordon-Reed

[sweet-adelheid.livejournal.com]

Professor Annette Gordon-Reed (of Rutgers University and New York Law School) was recently announced as the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for history. The day of the announcement, she was in Australia, and was interviewed on ABC Classic FM by Margaret Throsby, in an hour-long interview that covered Professor Gordon-Reed's work on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings as well as other topics, with a great deal of focus on race in the United States of America.

As a result of that interview (available here for approximately one more week: scroll down to 21 April, the 10.05am interview) I am definitely requesting the prize-winning book - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - through the library. I thought that others here might be interested in hearing the interview.

(Her Sydney Ideas lecture, Barack and Michelle Obama: Re-writing the Narrative of American History, is also available as a podcast, which I'm going to be downloading when I get home tonight.

Comments

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

Ah, damn. I'm at Sydney Uni, and I could have gone to the Sydney Ideas lecture if not for the fact that I had an essay due the day after. I had no idea that Margaret was interviewing her today, so I didn't turn my radio on until 11. Dammit.

*downloads mp3 of the Morning Interview*

[anahcrow.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links. I DLed them and will listen in the morning. :)