Virginia Commonwealth University: Author of 'On Juneteenth' Urges a More Complete Telling of American History
February 14, 2022
February 14, 2022
RICHMOND, Virginia, Feb. 14 (TNSOps) -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news on Feb. 12, 2022:
Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed's 2021 book "On Juneteenth" weaves together American history, family chronicle and memoir to tell the story of Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S., and specifically the day slavery ended in Texas - June 19, 1865. Throughout the book, she said, is the message that the U.S. is on . . .
Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed's 2021 book "On Juneteenth" weaves together American history, family chronicle and memoir to tell the story of Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S., and specifically the day slavery ended in Texas - June 19, 1865. Throughout the book, she said, is the message that the U.S. is on . . .