Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Annette Gordon-Reed doesn’t have to read a history book to understand the importance of Juneteenth. The Texas native grew up ...

Walter Isaacson sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and renowned legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, who argues looking at history’s great leaders is the best way to understand divisions ...

A new Juneteenth mural in Galveston is located at the site of the issuance of General Order No. 3, which demanded “absolute equality” between enslaved Texans and former slave owners after the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Historian Annette Gordon-Reed might have left Texas, but the state has never left her mind. "Texas is sort of a mysterious place to people," she said. "I have been explaining ...

On this first federal Juneteenth holiday, Author and Historian Annette Gordon-Reed talks to Jeffrey Brown about the importance of this date through her personal history growing up in Texas. This ...

The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year. Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. With “On ...