atherine Clinton holds a chair in U.S. history at Queen’s University Belfast. She has taught at Harvard University in the departments of History and of Afro American Studies, and held visiting chairs at the University of Richmond, the Citadel and the City University of New York, and the Mark Clark Chair of History at the Citadel. In 2012, she delivered the Fleming Lectures at Louisiana State University.

Clinton recently served as a consultant for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” and the documentary “Rebel!,” the story of Loreta Janeta Velasquez, an Hispanic woman from New Orleans who disguised herself as a man and fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Clinton has published more than a dozen books, including The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South, Mrs. Lincoln: A Life and Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, which was named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004 by The Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune.

A member of the Screen Writer’s Guild, Clinton has also written for The History Channel. She serves on advisory councils for Civil War History, Ford's Theatre and Civil War Times, and was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Bicentennial Commission. She is a graduate of Harvard, Sussex and Princeton. . . . short bio

atherine Clinton holds a chair in U.S. history at Queen’s University Belfast. She has taught at Harvard University in the departments of History and of Afro American Studies, and held visiting chairs at the University of Richmond, the Citadel and the City University of New York, and the Mark Clark Chair of History at the Citadel. In 2012, she delivered the Fleming Lectures at Louisiana State University . . . full bio