Professor Christa Dierksheide will discuss her new book, Beyond Jefferson: the Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth Century America (Yale University Press, 2024), in conversation with Professor Nicholas Guyatt of the University of Cambridge.  

From the publisher's page: "Historian Christa Dierksheide examines the lives and experiences of a rising generation of Jefferson’s descendants, Black and white, illuminating how they redefined equality and independence in a world that was half a century removed from the American Revolution. The Hemingses and Randolphs moved beyond Jefferson and his eighteenth-century world, leveraging their own ideas and experiences in nineteenth-century Britain, China, Cuba, Mexico, and the American West to claim independence and equal rights in an imperial and slaveholding republic."

This event is free and open to the public, but registration on Eventbrite is required! Paid parking is available nearby at the Central Grounds Parking Garage located near the UVA bookstore.