She is now an independent scholar in the Washington DC area. Her research focuses on the African American experience during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. Thompson has presented her work at a number of national scholarly meetings and appeared on CSPAN3 and the History Channel. She is author of several short essays and is currently working on two book projects: one a history of black Marylanders in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the other an edited work entitled “Southern Black Women’s Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction.”