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name: "Edda L. Fields-Black"
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description: "Edda L. Fields-Black is a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and director of its Dietrich College Humanities Center. Her book Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War shared the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History. She is a descendant of a soldier who fought in the raid."
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# Edda L. Fields-Black

Edda L. Fields-Black is a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and director of its Dietrich College Humanities Center. Her book Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War shared the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History. She is a descendant of a soldier who fought in the raid.

**Historian and author**

## Books

- [Combee](/book/combee)