In March of 2021, History Professor Kate Masur published her new book, Until Justice Be Done. The work examines the restrictive codes called Black laws or Black codes that constrained the lives of Black people in northern free states, …
Professor Kate Masur, of the Department of History, wrote about the history of slavery and Juneteenth in a guest essay for The New York Times Opinion section.
Masur said that in order to truly commemorate Juneteenth, Americans need to …
History Professor Kate Masur’s new book, Until Justice Be Done, is a groundbreaking examination of the movement for equal rights in the decades preceding the Civil War.
Disheartening as it is to read
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Professor Kate Masur of the Department of History is part of the PBS series, “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” which explores years following the American Civil War.
In the 4-hour documentary series the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) is explored:…
This episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast features a conversation with Professor Kate Masur of the Department of History at Northwestern and author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (2021).
The …
On September 26, Department of History Professor Kate Masur and history doctoral students participated in The Confederate Mound protest at Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery. The protest was part of “Civil War History: A Call to Action,” a nationwide, group demonstration …