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History Professor Awarded Best Book in Southern History Prize

History Professor Awarded Best Book in Southern History Prize

Assistant professor Amanda Laury Kleintop’s book “Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight for Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War” was recently awarded the Charles S. Sydnor Book Prize. The Southern Historical Association has awarded the 2026 Charles S. Sydnor Book Prize for the best book in Southern history to Amanda Laury Kleintop, an assistant professor of History, for her...

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