{"id":7721,"date":"2025-11-23T22:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2025-11-23T23:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:17:16","slug":"combee-by-fields-black-wins-2025-pulitzer-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/11\/23\/combee-by-fields-black-wins-2025-pulitzer-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Emory Magazine Features Pulitzer-Winning &#8216;COMBEE&#8217; by Fields-Black"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/04\/fields-black-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/04\/fields-black-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/04\/fields-black-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/04\/fields-black-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/04\/fields-black-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/04\/fields-black.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><em>Emory Magazine<\/em> has published a feature of Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black&#8217;s most recent book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/combee-9780197552797?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War<\/a><\/em>. The book won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was a finalist for the James Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. <em>COMBEE<\/em> offers the first detailed account of the dramatic campaign to free nearly 800 enslaved people led by Harriet Tubman on the Combahee River in South Carolina in 1863. Fields-Black is herself a descendant of one of the participants in the raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about <em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/combee-9780197552797?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">COMBEE<\/a><\/em> and Fields-Black&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/dietrich\/history\/people\/faculty\/fields-black.html\">extraordinary and varied work<\/a>, along with the feature in <em>Emory Magazine<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.emory.edu\/features\/2025\/10\/emag_civil_war_raid_that_history_almost_forgot_20-10-2025\/index.html?utm_source=ebulletin&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Emory_Report_EB_111425\">The Civil War Raid That History Almost Forgot<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fields-Black received her undergraduate degree in history and English from Emory and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emory Magazine has published a feature of Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black&#8217;s most recent book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. The book won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was a finalist for the James Rawley Prize from the Organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-alumni","category-awards","category-undergraduate-students","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7725,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}