Professor Clinton is a pioneering historian of American women, the American South and the Civil War. She is the author or editor of over 30 books, including "The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South;" "The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century;" "Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South;" and "Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom." Her books "Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War" and "Mrs. Lincoln: A Life" are among several that have been History Book Club selections.

She has earned a B.A. from Harvard, her M.A. from the University of Sussex, and her Ph.D. from Princeton. She has taught previously at the Citadel, Wesleyan, Brandeis, and she is an emerita professor at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she taught from 2006-2014. She served as President of the Southern Historical Association in 2016, the same year that she won a Guggenheim Fellowship. She served as a consultant for Steven Spielberg’s "Lincoln" (2012).

She is currently on scholarly advisory boards at the Museum of the Troubles and Peace (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Ford’s Theatre (Washington, D.C.), The Lincoln Forum, and The Alamo.

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