Kate Masur

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Kate Masur is an American historian and author. She is a professor of history at Northwestern University. [1]

Her book Until Justice Be Done was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and society, broadly defined. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "Kate Masur: Department of History - Northwestern University". history.northwestern.edu.
  2. "Pulitzer Prizes 2022: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists". May 9, 2022 via NYTimes.com.
  3. "The AHA Announces 2022 Prize Winners | History News Network". historynewsnetwork.org. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  4. Gillette, Howard Jr. (May 11, 2011). "An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. (review)". The Journal of the Civil War Era. 1 (3): 439–441. doi:10.1353/cwe.2011.0052. S2CID   153836837 via Project MUSE.
  5. Pearlman, Lauren (January 1, 2014). "Kate Masur, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C." The Journal of African American History. 99 (1–2): 131–133. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.99.1-2.0131 via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
  6. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/116/5/1504/12178.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "DOWNS & MASUR (eds.): The World the Civil War Made (2015) | Book Reviews | Civil War Monitor". www.civilwarmonitor.com.
  8. Slap, Andrew L. (May 11, 2016). "The World the Civil War Made ed. by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur (review)". Civil War History. 62 (4): 445–446. doi:10.1353/cwh.2016.0080. S2CID   151602329 via Project MUSE.
  9. Baker, Bruce E. (May 11, 2017). "The World the Civil War Made ed. by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur (review)". Journal of Southern History. 83 (1): 188–190. doi:10.1353/soh.2017.0039. S2CID   164571487 via Project MUSE.
  10. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/121/4/1284/2581662.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. Masur, Kate (March 23, 2021). Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (ebook ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN   9781324005940. OCLC   1328028331 . Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  12. Szalai, Jennifer (March 17, 2021). "A Powerful New Framing of America's First Civil Rights Movement" via NYTimes.com.