A native of Maury County, Tennessee, Zacharie W. Kinslow holds a master’s degree from Austin Peay State University. For five years he worked at the President James K. Polk Home & Museum in Columbia, Tennessee as a docent and educator. Since 2020, he has served as the executive director of the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum in Dickson, TN. Zacharie’s research interests primarily involve slavery and the America presidency as well as Jacksonian America.