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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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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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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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