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Christopher Lehman
Christopher P. Lehman is a professor of Ethnic Studies at St. Cloud State University. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. His work has appeared in Minnesota History magazine and in periodicals for county-level historical societies throughout Minnesota. His book Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State won the Minnesota Book Award in the Minnesota Nonfiction category in 2020. He won the Hognander Minnesota History Award in 2026 for his book It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom.
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It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2024)
Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019)
Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition (Praeger, 2014)
Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota (McFarland & Company, 2011)
A Critical History of Soul Train on Television (McFarland & Company, 2008)
The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007)
American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era: A Study of Social Commentary in Films and Television Programs, 1961-1973 (McFarland & Company, 2006)
