A specialist in twentieth-century social, political and cultural history, she regularly teaches courses on social movements, gender and sexuality, war and memory, and public history. Yuhl is the author of the prize-winning book, A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston, and numerous scholarly articles and reviews. Her current work is an oral history of U.S. women soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She lives in Worcester with her husband, three children, and dog.