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Oct. 2, 2023

In the Media: Rita Roberts Discusses I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife on CSPAN

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Feb. 3, 2023

Rita Roberts Named Finalist for 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

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Nov. 16, 2022

In the Media: Rita Roberts’ I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife Included in Oprah Daily‘s List of Holiday Gift Books

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Department of Africana Studies


October 2, 2023

In the Media: Rita Roberts Discusses I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife on CSPAN

The book is a compilation of letters sent between African Americans during the Civil War.

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February 3, 2023

Rita Roberts Named Finalist for 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

Rita Roberts, Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Chair in History and Biography and professor of history and Africana studies, was named a 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize finalist for her book I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era.

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November 16, 2022

In the Media: Rita Roberts’ I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife Included in Oprah Daily‘s List of Holiday Gift Books

The book is a compilation of letters sent between African Americans during the Civil War.

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