UT professor receives Pulitzer prize for history

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A professor in the University of Texas at Austin's history department was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for history for a book she authored on Black workers in Boston during the Civil War era.

Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Professor of Women’s History Emerita in the Department of History, where she served as chair from 2014 to 2020, according to the university. She received the Pulitzer for her book “No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's...