{"id":59897,"date":"2016-10-21T13:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=59897"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T17:46:54","slug":"the-jeffersons-and-hemingses","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/the-jeffersons-and-hemingses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jeffersons and Hemingses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">The Jeffersons and Hemingses<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"b52bdcc780564135db0db233a2115740\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR3424a751cd2820d9e829a6ea31dd99ff\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR3424a751cd2820d9e829a6ea31dd99ff\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR3424a751cd2820d9e829a6ea31dd99ff\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/59897?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR3424a751cd2820d9e829a6ea31dd99ff&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/59897?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR3424a751cd2820d9e829a6ea31dd99ff\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: April 13, 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/213293108\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Great Lives: The Jeffersons and The Hemingses\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Hemingses-1-201x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Hemingses-1-201x300.jpg 201w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Hemingses-1.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><p>According to Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, \u201cThe Hemingses, Jeffersons, Randolphs, and Wayles's lived a convoluted multi-generational and multiracial life at Monticello. How did Jefferson manage it? How did the Hemingses? The answers tell us a great deal about  the nature of race and race relations in America.\u201d  These are themes she will explore in her presentation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Annette Gordon-Reed<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Gordon-Reed-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Gordon-Reed-150x150.png 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Gordon-Reed-50x50.png 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Gordon-Reed-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, a professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and formerly the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the Queen\u2019s College, University of Oxford (2014-2015). Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 for <i>The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family <\/i>(W.W. Norton, 2009), a subject she had previously written about in <i>Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy <\/i>(University Press of Virginia, 1997). She is also the author of <i>Andrew Johnson <\/i>(Times Books\/Henry Holt, 2010). Her most recently published book (with Peter S. Onuf) is <i>\u201cMost Blessed of the Patriarchs\u201d: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination <\/i> (Liveright Publishing, 2016). Her honors include a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, and the Woman of Power & Influence Award from the National Organization for Women in New York City. Gordon-Reed was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and is a member of the Academy\u2019s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[213],"class_list":{"0":"post-59897","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-213","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Jeffersons and Hemingses - 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