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Born into a journalism family, Emily early on decided she wanted to write. Among her grade-school efforts was a poem inspired by the typewriter her father gave her as a child, and on which he typed bedtime stories as he told them. Her poem, “Typewriter,” weighed the options—poet, novelist, journalist. The opportunity to dig deep into the past to tell true stories that shine a light on how we got here came later when she caught the bug for archival research and enrolled in Chapel Hill’s US history doctoral program.

Emily is currently Visiting Honors Faculty Fellow at Bellarmine University. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in Vogue, Ohio Valley History, The Journal of Southern History, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and New ...more

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	Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham 3.68 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“the white-manufactured authenticity about blackness was a means for people who looked like him to both police their gentility and defend their innocence.”
― Emily S. Bingham, My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

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“I would ten thousand times rather my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland,” Jacobs vowed, “than the most pampered slaves of America.”
― Emily S. Bingham, My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

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