[citation needed] In March 1988, Troxler was promoted to full professor with Elon College's history department.
[2] Troxler's research for Shuttle & Plow: A History of Alamance County, North Carolina (1999) led to later biographies of the African American Reconstruction leader Wyatt Outlaw[3] and Sallie Stockard, a pioneer in women’s higher education.
"[4] Troxler's 2011 book, Farming Dissenters, is an investigation of the pre-Revolutionary Regulator Movement, which Alan D. Watson characterized as “the most historiographically exciting and controversial topic in North Carolina's past.” Watson found her account of the May 16, 1771 defeat of the Regulators to be "the best account available of the bloodiest confrontation among white English colonials in the eighteenth century.
"[5] This period is the context for Troxler's Young Adult history novel, The Red Dog, which received the 2017 Historical Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians.
[6] In 2003, the North Carolina Society of Historians recognized her book, Pyle’s Defeat, and a digital reference she edited, Alamance County, N.C., Transcripts of Census and Tax Records: Vol.