![]() Her most recent publication, an essay titled “The Man and the Martyr: Abraham Lincoln in African American History and Memory,” appeared in June as part of an anthology, The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America’s Enduring Conflict, published by the University Press of Kentucky. ![]() Just prior to her death, with help from her granddaughter and research assistant, Danielle, she completed the revisions for a new Oxford University Press edition of the Hortons’ landmark two-volume survey of African American history, Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of Black America, originally published in 2002. ![]() James Oliver Horton (1943-2017) of George Washington University. Horton was the recipient of many academic honors and the author, co-author, or editor of nine books-many co-written with her late husband, Dr. ![]() The cause was a severe and unexpected stroke suffered the day before her passing.Ī professor of history emerita at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Dr. Horton, one of the nation’s leading historians of antebellum Black culture and Abolitionism, died at Reston (VA) Hospital on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, five days before her 79 th birthday. ![]()
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