Publications by Professor Gordon-Reed
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Publications
BOOKS
Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History. (Oxford University Press, 2002) (Editor).
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir. Public Affairs, 2001 (with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.).
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. University Press of Virginia, 1997. Paperback edition, University Press of Virginia, 1998.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Logic and Experience: Thomas Jefferson’s Life in the Law, Chapter in Slavery and the American South at 3-28 (W.D. Jordan, ed., University of Mississippi, 2003).
Celia’s Case (1858). Chapter 3 in Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History at 48–60 (A. Gordon-Reed, ed., Oxford University Press, 2002).
Introduction. Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History at 3–13 (A. Gordon-Reed, ed., Oxford University Press, 2002).
Sacred Legacies, Essay in Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture at 124–128 (H. Dodson, ed., National Geographic Society, 2002).
“The Memories of a Few Negroes: Rescuing America’s Future at Monticello.” Chapter 11 in Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History Memory and Civic Culture, at 236–252. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
“Thomas Jefferson and the Boundaries of American Civilization.” Essay in Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty, at 83–87. New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, 2000.
LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
"Uncovering the Past: Lessons from Doing Legal History (New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day III), 51 New York Law School Law Review 855-860 (2006-2007).
“Watching the Protectors: Independent Oversight of Municipal Law Enforcement Agencies.” 40 New York Law School Law Review 87–111 (1995).
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, PRACTICE MATERIALS, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Book review of Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste, by Mark S. Weiner, published in the American Historical Review (March 2006)
Book Review of Henry Wiencek’s Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America, 65(3) New York Journal of American History 135 (Spring 2004).
Racism’s Many Masters, Book Review of Garry Wills’ “Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power,” The American Lawyer, January 2004 at 61.
Thurmond Story Tells Harsh Truths, Commentary, Women’s eNews, < http://womensenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1653/context/archive> December 24, 2003.
Essay in Eight Blocks Away: Memoirs of September 11, 2001 at 22–23 (New York Law School, 2002).
“Why Jefferson Scholars Were the Last to Know.” New York Times (Op Ed), at A27 (November 3, 1998).
“The Color of Her Childhood.” Book Review of Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter, by Carrie Allen McCray. Washington Post (Book World), at 7 (July 5, 1998).
“Grappling with History: A Writer Takes Up His Family’s Past.” Book Review of Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball Washington Times, at B8 (February 22, 1997).
“Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: How a Book Was Born.” 15 In Brief 2–7 (Spring/Summer 1997).
