Aronson Memorial Lecture

Professor
Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University delivers the 10th annual
Aronson Memorial Lecture, named for a devoted volunteer at St. Paul’s in the
1980s and 1990s.  Professor Gordon-Reed
is the author most notably of a landmark series of books which examined the
controversial subject of the relationship between President Thomas Jefferson
and the Hemings family, who were enslaved African Americans on Jefferson’s
Virginia plantation.  These books included
Thomas Jefferson and Sally
Hemings: An American Controversy,
written
in 1997, and The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, published in 2008, which
received the Pulitzer Prize in History, among numerous other awards