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The speakers during the three-day Harriet Tubman Pilgrimage in Auburn will include a Pulitzer Prize winner, the former director of the U.S. Mint and an acclaimed author and professor.
The Gibbes Museum of Art is presenting the world premiere of "Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid," ...
Edda Fields-Black won the prize for her book 'COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.' ...
Armed with a list of questions on a legal pad and a tape recorder, Edda Fields-Black and her older sister went from house to ...
Edda Fields-Black wanted to make her historical account of a Union Army raid led by Harriet Tubman on southern plantations and rice fields as authentic as ...
UNC history professor and author Kathleen DuVal saw her latest book named a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history on ...
Kathleen DuVal, a historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a Fayetteville native, was awarded the 2025 ...
Two Early Americanists with Ph.D.s from the UC Davis history department won big awards this week: Kathleen DuVal (2001 Ph.D.) ...
Edda Fields-Black is still processing the fact that she was awarded a 2025 Pulitzer Prize. “It’s just beginning to set in. It ...
Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, ...
Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” was selected as a 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner in history.
Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of ...