About Kate Masur
Kate Masur was an American historian.
Kate Masur is an American historian and author. She is a professor of history at Northwestern University.
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.
Books An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. (UNC Press, 2010) (with Gregory Downs) The World the Civil War Made (UNC Press, 2015) (author of introduction) They Knew Lincoln, by John E. Washington (Oxford University Press, 2018) Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Articles "The African American Delegation to Abraham Lincoln: A Reappraisal Civil War History, Vol. 56, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 117-144.
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