Mr. Robert Sandler took a small group of students to the 30th annual Gilder lehrman Institute of American history Gala at the Mandarin hotel. This year GLI honored Annette Gordon-Reed the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and renowned law professor and scholar of American history. She has published and edited eight books, among them The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008), which won sixteen awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and the George Washington Prize.