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Martha Hodes

Martha Hodes

Martha Hodes is a professor of history at New York University and the author, most recently, of the award-winning Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press, 2015). She is currently a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. icon

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Public Thinker: David Blight on Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory

By Martha Hodes

Puzzling out the meaning of the Civil War and its aftermath has been David Blight’s lifelong work ...

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