Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Affiliation: Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University

Keywords: Civil War and Reconstruction, Civil War memory, emancipation, public history, Tennessee, Woman's Relief Corps

About Me: I provide research, writing, and editing assistance to organizations that partner with the Center for Historic Preservation on a variety of projects, including publications and exhibits. I also administer the Tennessee Century Farms Program, work with graduate research assistants on a variety of projects, and edit the Center’s blog, Southern Rambles.

I received my Ph.D. in American History from the College of William & Mary, completing my dissertation on the transition from slavery to freedom among women in Virginia during and after the Civil War. I have written about the transition from slavery to freedom in both Tennessee and Virginia in several publications and am now researching Tennessee women’s involvement in the Woman’s Relief Corps, the women’s auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic. I am also active in the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH).

Recent Publications: “Orra Gray Langhorne: A Voice for Reform in Postbellum Virginia.” Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, Vol. II. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2016, pp. 94-114.

“Civil War Memory: Public Commemorations of the War in Tennessee,” in Tennessee Histories (online reader). Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil, 2016, pp. 106-123.

“Forming a ‘Sisterhood Chain’: Women, Emancipation, and Freedom Celebrations in Tennessee,” in Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times, Vol. II. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2015, pp. 80-100.

Tennessee Women in the Civil War, Editor. Volume 8 of Tennessee in the Civil War: The Best of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Nashville: The Tennessee Historical Society, 2014.

“’Too Much of the Yankees about Them, to Suit Me’: Emancipation and Tennessee’s Slaveholding Women.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 72 (Winter 2013): 269-288.