STARKVILLE — A Mississippi State University Civil War historian, researcher and author is the new leader of a national association and university presidential library.

Anne Marshall, associate professor in the MSU Department of History, was named executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the U.S. Grant Presidential Library. Both are housed in the university’s Mitchell Memorial Library and curate the 18th president’s papers, while preserving a vast array of artifacts and memorabilia.

Marshall takes the helm of an organization that has published 32 volumes of Grant’s writings; collected many original letters written by Grant, his associates and family; and has more than 200,000 photocopies of every known letter written by Grant and other documents. In 2017, the USGA and Presidential Library staff edited “The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition” (Harvard University Press, 2017).

Employed by MSU in 2006 as an assistant history professor, Marshall follows the USGA leadership of John Marszalek, who has served as executive director and managing editor since 2006. Marszalek, an MSU William L. Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus, continues with the association as contributing editor, working to complete the annotated memoirs of Civil War General William T. Sherman. He also remains on the group’s board of directors.

Marshall is working on an upcoming biography of anti-slavery activist Cassius Marcellus Clay, a founding member of the country’s Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln’s ambassador to Russia. In 2010, she penned “Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State” (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). She also has published articles in several scholarly publications including the Journal of the Civil War Era, Slavery & Abolition, Agricultural History and Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

She is a contributor to a number of books.

She will be a part of the USGA’s celebration March 3-5 at MSU of the bicentennial of Grant’s birth.

For information about the U.S. Grant Association and Presidential Library, visit usgrantlibrary.org.

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