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- 2025 Hubbell Prize WinnerThe Civil War History Prize Selection Committee and Kent State University Press are thrilled to announce that Marcy S. Sacks is the winner of the 2025 John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History in the past year. The article, “‘I Shall Forward to You My Contraband’: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive,” appeared in the December 2024 issue. In this innovative and significant article, Marcy Sacks devotes sustained attention to a topic only hinted at in the scholarly literature and mostly obscured in the documentary record: formerly enslaved people involuntarily …
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