Thomas Jefferson, Race, Slavery, and the Problem of American Nationhood

The Department of Africana Studies is coordinating this Walk the Walk Week lecture featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, and Peter Onuf, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus, at the University of Virginia. The speakers co-authored Most Blessed of Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.

A reception will be held in the Atrium immediately following the lecture.

This event is co-sponsored by: 

• College of Arts and Letters
• President’s Office
• Notre Dame Law School
• Constitutional Studies Program
• Democratization Theory Research Cluster, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
• Department of American Studies
• Department of English
• Department of History
• Department of Political Science        
• Gender Studies Program                            
• Institute for Latino Studies 
• Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

Originally published at africana.nd.edu.