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Underground Railroad Wins Pulitzer in Fiction

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Emerging Civil War

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this afternoon, and while most of the attention goes to the journalism awards, the Pulitzer committee also makes awards in arts & letters. This year’s winner for fiction was Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad. ECW’s … Continue reading →

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The Underground Railroad Wins the National Book Award

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Emerging Civil War

In October, we offered a review by Chris Mackowski of Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad. As a quick follow-up, we wanted to report that the novel was selected last month as the recipient of the 2016 National Book Award … Continue reading →

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The Underground Railroad Offers a Harrowing Journey through American Race Relations

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Chris Mackowski

As a boy, Colson Whitehead imagined an underground railroad full of steam engines that ran through tunnels deep beneath the Antebellum earth on routes that stretch to indeterminate places. He was disappointed to discover the railroad—as important as it was … Continue reading →

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