Karen L. Cox

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Karen L. Cox is a historian and professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who specializes in and has written extensively on Southern history.[1]

Cox received her Bachelors and Masters from UNC Greensboro and her Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi.[2]

Cox's most recent book, No Common Ground, addresses the intersection between racial justice and the legacy of Confederate monuments, which she first explored when she wrote about the United Daughters of the Confederacy.[3][4][5] Her other publications include: Dreaming of Dixie and The South and Mass Culture about portrayals of the American South.[6][7]

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  1. ^ Calder, Thomas (17 May 2018). "Historian Karen Cox confronts Confederate monuments". The Mountain Xpress. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Karen L. Cox". Karen L. Cox. University of North Carolina. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  3. ^ "No Common Ground | Karen L. Cox". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  4. ^ Fisher, Joe (23 June 2020). "Confederate monuments were meant to intimidate Blacks, historians say". WRAL.com. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  5. ^ Cox, Karen L. (1 October 2006). "John M. Coski. The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University. 2005. Pp. xi, 401. $29.95". The American Historical Review. 111 (4): 1181–1182. doi:10.1086/ahr.111.4.1181. ISSN 0002-8762. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  6. ^ Cox, Karen L. (2009). "The South and Mass Culture". The Journal of Southern History. 75 (3): 677–690. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 27779032. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  7. ^ Cox, Karen L. (2011). Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created in American Popular Culture. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3471-8. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

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