Contributor

Karen L. Cox

Historian, Author of the forthcoming "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South"

Karen L. Cox is an award-winning historian and Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture and Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, She has appeared on C-SPAN, Canadian Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio and Georgia Public Radio, and has lent her expertise for articles in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Süddeutsche Zeitung in Germany. Her essays have appeared in the Huffington Post and the New York Times. Her forthcoming book “Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South,” will be published by UNC Press.