Kate Masur Explained

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]}

Books

• An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. (UNC Press, 2010)^{[4] [5] [6]}
• (with Gregory Downs) The World the Civil War Made (UNC Press, 2015)^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}
• (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)^{[11] [12]}

Notes and References

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