Anne Marshall, PhD
A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Anne Marshall is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University, where she has taught since 2006.
She received her B.A. in History at Centre College of Kentucky and her MA and PhD in History at the University of Georgia.
Her first book was Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). She is currently writing a biography of the colorful anti-slavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay, who served as Lincoln’s minister to Russia during the Civil War. She has also authored numerous articles, which have appeared in journals including the Journal of the Civil War Era and Slavery & Abolition
She became the Executive Director of the U.S. Grant Association and Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library in March 2022.