Acclaimed historian, author, and Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University, Annette Gordon-Reed, will be the keynote speaker for Northampton Community College’s (NCC) Annual Humanities Program, 7 p.m. April 14.

NCC’s Annual Humanities Theme for 2025-2026, “We the People: Reflecting Back, Building Forward,” honors the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The program builds upon NCC’s original designation by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a “We the People” institution.

Annette Gordon-Reed has won 16 book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009. For her work, “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” she’s been awarded the National Book Award in 2008, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the George Washington Book Prize in 2009.

In addition to articles, essays and reviews, her works include “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy” and “Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History.” Her newest book, “Jefferson on Race: A Reader” is published in March by Princeton University Press.

Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015 and was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Humanities Medal.

The event is free and is open to the public.

To reserve tickets: https://Northampton.edu/Keynote2026