Thavolia Glymph serves on the Editorial Board for The Journal of the Civil War Era and is a scholar advisor for the National Women’s History Museum. She is on the Advisory Council for the Lincoln Prize, a $50,000 award given annually for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln. She serves on the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award Committee and is chair of the Tom Watson Book Prize Committee. She also serves on the Committee of Committees for the Organization of American Historians.