Emilie Amt

Emilie Amt is an emeritus professor of history at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. An award-winning writer on black history in western Maryland, she blogs at emilieamt.com, and her newest book is about African Americans at the battle of Antietam. She’s also a well known medieval historian who has published extensively on religious women and on twelfth- and thirteenth-century English government, finance, and war. Her interest in history began at the age of fourteen, when she read Josephine Tey's classic murder mystery The Daughter of Time. She earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her doctorate at Oxford University. Around 2010, she grew interested in black history as she researched the enslaved people who had attended her church. She lives in Hagerstown, Maryland, where she's active in public history as well as research and writing.