More than 200 members of the Black community perished in this fire in April 1940 and it is still the fourth deadliest club fire in the history of the United States. Her next project will examine the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi. She has been interviewed by journalists from around the world for her expertise on Confederate monuments and Confederate culture more broadly. Cox and published by The University of North Carolina Press. A public intellectual, she has written op-eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, CNN, Smithsonian Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and the Huffington Post. No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice is written by Karen L. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the. She is also the editor of Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History (2012). Cox recently publish book about her narrative on the. She is the author of Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (2003), which won the Southern Association for Women Historians' Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture (2011), Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South (2017), and most recently, No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (2021). Cox is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she teaches courses in American history with a focus on southern history and culture.
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