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    What can reparations for slavery look like in the United States? One man has ideas

    Professor Andrew Delbanco gave this year's annual Jefferson Lecture, titled, "The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future," where he addressed reparations for slavery in the U.S.
    by Sacha Pfeiffer Oct 20, 2022 4 minutes
    Professor Andrew Delbanco delivered the 50th annual Jefferson Lecture in Washington D.C. on Wednesday.

    On Wednesday, the National Endowment for the Humanities held its 50th annual Jefferson Lecture.

    Each year, the lecturer is chosen based on distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Being selected to give the Jefferson Lecture is considered the highest honor given by the federal government in the field of the humanities.

    This year's honoree was Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton professor of American Studies at Columbia University, and the president of the Teagle Foundation.

    Delbanco delivered his lecture titled, "The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future," where he addressed reparations for slavery in the United States using a variety of perspectives.

    He joined to discuss what reparations in the U.S. have looked like in the past, and what they

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