Amy Murrell Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 5637045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Murrell Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Murrell |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
More Than a “Pile of Rude Boards”
This article examines architecture as material culture by offering a biography of one Reconstruction-era structure—the Holley School building in Lottsburg, Virginia—charting its life from beginning to end, from the studs to the furnishings. It describes the building not as an empty vessel filled by the students and teachers but as a structure that, with each alteration and with each material object placed inside, became deeply implicated in the c…
Brandi Clay Brimmer. Claiming Union Widowhood
Historians of nineteenth-century African American and Civil War–era history have long valued military pension files for the unparalleled insight they provide into the private lives of Black soldiers and their families. Filled with intimate, firsthand detail about marriages, divorces, births, deaths, and illnesses, the pension files remain one of the most important sources of social history about the generation who fought for and experienced emanc…
South to Freedom
It is well known that the quest for freedom in the nineteeth-century United States sent enslaved people fleeing across the northern border and into Canada. But as Alice Baumgartner argues in her remarkable new book, their flight also pointed directly south, into Mexico and into a country that protected their freedom and threatened the futures of their former owners. Between three thousand and five thousand enslaved people made their way into Mexi…
Following the Paths of the Civil War’s Refugees from Slavery
Following the Paths of the Civil War’s Refugees from Slavery Amy Murrell Taylor (bio) Thank you for the kind introduction. And thank you to everyone for being here today for what is an enormously humbling and gratifying moment for me.1 As some of you know, I worked on this book for quite some time. For many years. And what happens when one takes time on a book is that things change in the meantime—not just the historiographical currents but, in m…
Embattled Freedom
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled F…
The Divided Family in Civil War America
Wild Rose
Embattled Freedom
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled F…
The Divided Family in Civil War America
Wild Rose
Embattled Freedom
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled F…
Following the Paths of the Civil War’s Refugees from Slavery
Following the Paths of the Civil War’s Refugees from Slavery Amy Murrell Taylor (bio) Thank you for the kind introduction. And thank you to everyone for being here today for what is an enormously humbling and gratifying moment for me.1 As some of you know, I worked on this book for quite some time. For many years. And what happens when one takes time on a book is that things change in the meantime—not just the historiographical currents but, in m…
South to Freedom
It is well known that the quest for freedom in the nineteeth-century United States sent enslaved people fleeing across the northern border and into Canada. But as Alice Baumgartner argues in her remarkable new book, their flight also pointed directly south, into Mexico and into a country that protected their freedom and threatened the futures of their former owners. Between three thousand and five thousand enslaved people made their way into Mexi…
Brandi Clay Brimmer. Claiming Union Widowhood
Historians of nineteenth-century African American and Civil War–era history have long valued military pension files for the unparalleled insight they provide into the private lives of Black soldiers and their families. Filled with intimate, firsthand detail about marriages, divorces, births, deaths, and illnesses, the pension files remain one of the most important sources of social history about the generation who fought for and experienced emanc…
More Than a “Pile of Rude Boards”
This article examines architecture as material culture by offering a biography of one Reconstruction-era structure—the Holley School building in Lottsburg, Virginia—charting its life from beginning to end, from the studs to the furnishings. It describes the building not as an empty vessel filled by the students and teachers but as a structure that, with each alteration and with each material object placed inside, became deeply implicated in the c…
History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Spanish Civil War (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Emancipation (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works)