Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. She teaches at Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. This interview ...

I f you had to map the dream career of an aspiring historian, it would go something like this: First, stake out an unconventional position on a consequential question. Second, ignore the scholarly ...

"Johnson was an important president at a pivotal moment in history," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed said in a recent telephone interview from New York. Gordon-Reed's biography on ...

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 ...