Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse is a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and continues to write regularly for the newspaper’s opinion pages. A 1998 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Beat Reporting, she is the author of several books and is a former member of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate.

The Story of Mumbet

Who was the enslaved woman whose burial site at a Berkshires cemetery draws so much reverence and respect?

By Linda Greenhouse | Monday March 2, 2026

The Story of Mumbet

By Linda Greenhouse | Monday March 2, 2026

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