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Carole Emberton

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Carole Emberton is the author of Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War published by the University of Chicago Press, which received the Willie Lee Rose Prize for best book in southern history by the Southern Association of Women Historians.

A National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, she has published in the New York Times, History News Network, and the Washington Post. She is Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where she specializes in the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Her new book, To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner, will be published by W. W. Norton.