Kate Masur is an American historian and author. She is a professor of history at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

. Her book ''Until Justice Be Done'' was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world, claiming over 10,000 members. Founded in 1884, AHA works to protect academic free ...

'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)

References

21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American historians American women historians Northwestern University faculty {{US-historian-stub