Karen L. Cox

Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is writing a book about the Rhythm Club Fire.

“The Greatest Tragedy Ever to Strike the Race”: The Untold Story of the Rhythm Club Fire

April 23, 2018By Karen L. Cox

“Did you ever hear about the burning that happened way down in Natchez, Mississippi town?”

Looking at the rioters in Baltimore, or any other place, in isolation misses the point.

Our Past is Written in Stone

Mothers’ Day did not start as a way to encourage people to be nice to their mothers, but as an impassioned effort by women to end war forever.

Exploring an important step toward the abolition of slavery in the United States