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The day commemorates an important coda to the end of slavery in this country.

To learn more and support our programming, visit the Boston Public Library Fund website.Most of us now know something about Juneteenth. Programming like this is enabled through the generosity of a variety of public and private funding. Presented in the American Inspiration Author Series (NEHGS) in partnership with the State Library of Massachusetts and GBH Forum Network. Place the code “ AMINSP22” in the comments as you check out and the book you receive in late June/early July will be signed by the author. and around the world.Ĭopies of On Juneteenth can be purchased from our partners at Porter Square Books, at. Her research and published works examine the prospects for finding common ground between left-wing and right-wing women in the U.S. Lisa Baldez is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, she lives in New York and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University.

Don’t miss Gordon-Reed’s discussion with Lisa Baldez about her research process, her childhood in Texas, and the circuitous path to national recognition of the Juneteenth holiday.Īnnette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. In On Juneteenth she writes, “it is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.” Yet Texas, the last state to free its slaves, has long acknowledged the date of June 19, 1865, when US Major General Gordon Granger proclaimed from his Galveston headquarters that slavery was no longer the law of the land. The Texas native combines her own scholarship with a personal and intimate reflection of an overlooked holiday that has suddenly taken on new significance.

On Juneteenth presents the saga of a frontier defined as much by the slave plantation owner as the mythic cowboy, rancher, or oilman.Ĭelebrated for her research and revelations in her prize-winning book The Hemingses of Monticello, Annette Gordon-Reed now tells a tale closer to home. For this Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning historian, also a proud Texas native and descendant of Texas slaves, the story of Juneteenth has special resonance.