Learning US History Is about Hope, Not Shame

Episode Summary

Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed joins host Alex Lovit to discuss Juneteenth’s history and the transformative potential of reckoning with our country’s complex past.  

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard, where she teaches both history and law. She’s the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family and On Juneteenth. 

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The Context is a production of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

Our producers are George Drake, Jr. and Emily Vaughn.

Melinda Gilmore is our director of communications.

The rest of our team includes:

Jamaal Bell
Tayo Clyburn
Jasmine Olaore

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