Catherine Clinton

Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South, the American Civil War, American women, and African American history.

Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated from the Sunset Hill School in 1969.

Thereafter, she studied sociology and African-American History at Harvard University (Lowell House), graduating in 1973.

Clinton received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1980, after completing her dissertation on under the direction of James M. McPherson.

She has held academic positions at numerous institutions of higher learning, including Union College, Harvard University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Wofford College, The University of Richmond, Wesleyan University, Baruch College of the City University of New York and The Citadel.

She currently holds a chair in American History at UTSA.

She has written for the History Channel, consulted on projects for WGBH, and is a member of the Screen Writers Guild, and has authored, edited, co-authored or co-edited more than twenty-five books to date.

She is editor of a series titled VIEWPOINTS ON AMERICAN CULTURE (Oxford University Press).

She serves on the scholarly advisory board of both Ford's Theatre and the Lincoln Cottage, as well as the following journals: Civil War Times and CIVIL WAR HISTORY.

She has been an advisor on several documentaries, including Brother, Outsider: The life of Bayard Rustin and Rebel: Loreta Velasquez, Civil War Soldier and Spy (about Loreta Janeta Velásquez), as well as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2011).

Clinton currently lives in San Antonio, Texas.