A book about the late ending of Reconstruction in Wilmington, North Carolina received a Pulitzer Prize on Friday and another book on the Civil War in the Southwest was named a finalist for the prize.
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, by David Zucchino was awarded the Pulitzer in General Non-Fiction this year. According to the Pulitzer Committee, the book is “A gripping account of the overthrow of the elected government of a Black-majority North Carolina city after Reconstruction that untangles a complicated set of power dynamics cutting across race, class and gender.”
A new book on the Civil War and Reconstruction in the American Southwest was named a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson was described by the Pulitzer Committee as “A lively and well-crafted Civil War narrative that expands understanding of the conflict’s Western theaters, where pivotal struggles for land, resources and influence presaged the direction of the country as a whole.”
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