Amy Murrell Taylor is the T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She is a social and cultural historian of the nineteenth-century United States, with a focus on the American South. The U.S. history survey course is one of her very favorite courses to teach each year, and she has been honored with her university's Provost's Award for Outstanding Teaching and Great Teacher Awards. Her latest book, Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps, received multiple national awards including the Frederick Douglass Book Prize given by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance at Yale University and the Merle Curti Social History Award from the Organization of American Historians. She has also written for The Times Literary Supplement and been featured in The Washington Post, USA Today, Slate, and C-Span.