Kimberly Taylor is an Army veteran and first-year M.A. student in History at the University of Oklahoma. She received her B.A. in History from Columbia College in Columbia, MO. Her bachelor’s thesis analyzed the role of Confederate Memorial Associations in creating and propagating the myth of the “Lost Cause” and connected the myth to the intentional generational miseducation of American students. She has worked at the Fort Sill US Army Artillery Museum, where she constructed exhibits and restored and preserved artifacts. Her current focus is on the history of minorities and queerness in western cowboy culture.
