Kate Larson
Kate Clifford Larson is an American historian who has mainly dealt with the American slavery opponent Harriet Tubman . Her 2003 biography Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero was the first Tubman biography in more than sixty years that was not written specifically for a young readership. Kate Larson is also advisor to the Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study of the National Park Service and a member of the Advisory Board of the Underground Railroad in Delaware.
Kate Larson received her PhD from the University of New Hampshire . She now teaches at Simmons College in Massachusetts .
Works
- Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2003)
Web links
- Kate Larson
- Kate Larson's website on Harriet Tubman
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| SURNAME | Larson, Kate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Larson, Kate Clifford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |