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

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. Her book ''Until Justice Be Done'' was a

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finalist and winner of the

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'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

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) ''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

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