Anne E. Marshall

Anne Marshall is Professor of History at Mississippi State University, where she has taught since 2006.

She has served as Executive Director of the U.S. Grant Association and Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library (located in Starkville, Mississippi) since March 2022.

Marshall's latest book, entitled Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform was published by University of North Carolina Press in September 2025. It was a finalist for the 1016 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, and is the winner of the 2026 Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters Prize for non-fiction.

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 has also authored numerous articles, which have appeared in journals including the Journal of the Civil War Era and Slavery & Abolition.

She received her B.A. in History at Centre College of Kentucky and her MA and PhD in History at the University of Georgia.

A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Marshall lives in Starkville, Mississippi with her husband, two teenagers, and one spoiled dog.