Congratulations to Edda Fields-Black, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for history with her book Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. Read Geri Lipshultz’s excellent review of this work. The Gibbes Museum of Art, a beacon for the arts in the American South since its establishment in […]
2025 Pulitzer Prize in History–“Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” by Edda Fields-Black
June 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
“COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” by Edda Fields-Black
September 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment
It was Edda Fields-Black’s Op Ed in the NYTimes that led me to COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (Oxford University Press 2024). In the editorial, she describes how the newly digitized US Civil War Pension Files made it possible for African Americans to find information on their […]