Carol Berkin, author portrait
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Carol Berkin

Carol Berkin received her A.B. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught at Baruch College from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983. She is currently Baruch Presidential Professor of History. Berkin is the author ofRevolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s IndependenceA Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American ConstitutionJonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American LoyalistFirst Generations: Women in Colonial America, and numerous articles and reviews. She lives in New York City and Guilford, Connecticut.
Wondrous Beauty
Civil War Wives
Revolutionary Mothers

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Wondrous Beauty
Civil War Wives
Revolutionary Mothers

Celebrate Women Making a Difference!

March is Women’s History Month, which celebrates the vital role of women in American history. Remarkable female entrepreneurs, scientists, politicians, athletes, artists, and spies, among others, abound historically and today. Our first female Vice-President has been elected. A woman heads the European Central Bank for the first time ever. The first female president of the New York Stock Exchange has been appointed.

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