Emily Bingham

Emily Bingham is a historian and author born in Louisville, Kentucky, into a journalism family, where she developed an early passion for writing. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998, and has taught at institutions including Bellarmine University, Centre College, and the University of Louisville. Her works, such as *Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham* (2015), *Mordecai: An Early American Family* (2003), and *My Old Kentucky Home* (2022), explore American history through biography, cultural history, and social structures.[1][2][3]