Two leading historians sit down to discuss the new book called “a dazzling survey of American history” by NPR.
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David Reynolds, an award-winning historian and literary scholar, speaks with noted historian Annette Gordon-Reed about his new book, Two Ships. Called “essential reading for today’s polarized times” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the book is a revelatory history of American division through the prism of two ships once widely used as symbols of the conflict between North and South. By dredging up these two ships’ dueling images, largely forgotten during Jim Crow, Reynolds shows how they are still relevant in the struggle for true equality. Reynolds is a distinguished professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of Walt Whitman’s America and Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, among many books. Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family; she recently edited Jefferson on Race: A Reader.
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