Carol Berkin

Carol Berkin
Born (1942-10-01) October 1, 1942 (age 82)
Mobile, Alabama
AwardsBancroft Dissertation Award
Academic background
Alma materBarnard College
Columbia University
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineAmerican colonial history; Women's history
InstitutionsBaruch College
Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Carol Ruth Berkin (born October 1, 1942)[1] is an American historian and author specializing in women's role in American colonial history.[2]

Biography

She was born in Mobile, Alabama. She is divorced with two children.[3] She graduated from Barnard College in 1964 and holds a 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 at the City University of New York.[4]

She has worked as a historical commentator for several television documentaries, most notably PBS's Dolley Madison: America’s First Lady.[5]

Awards

Berkin has received the Bancroft Dissertation Award from the Bancroft Foundation.[3][6] and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.[3]

Selected works

  • Jonathan Sewall; odyssey of an American loyalist. Columbia University Press. 1974. ISBN 0231038518. OCLC 947967.
  • Making America: A History of the United States. Houghton Mifflin. 1995. ISBN 0395714370. OCLC 32065166.
  • First Generations: Women in Colonial America. Hill and Wang. 1996. ISBN 0809045613. OCLC 34354867.
  • A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution. Harcourt. 2002. ISBN 0151009481. OCLC 49663906.
  • Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence.
  • Civil War Wives: The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant. Alfred A. Knopf. 2009. ISBN 9781400044467. OCLC 335678795.
  • Wondrous Beauty: Betsy Bonaparte, the Belle of Baltimore Who Married Napoleon's Brother. Alfred A. Knopf. 2014. ISBN 9780307592781. OCLC 842323047. Wondrous Beauty was reviewed in the New York Times.[7]
  • A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism (2017)

References

  1. ^ "Berkin, Carol 1942- (Carol Ruth Berkin)". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
  2. ^ Independence Hall Association (April 6, 1999). "Carol Berkin". Ushistory.org. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Berkin, Carol 1942- (Carol Ruth Berkin) – Dictionary definition of Berkin, Carol 1942- (Carol Ruth Berkin) | Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  4. ^ "Carol Berkin". Penguin Random House. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
  5. ^ "Carol Berkin: Historys Advocate – Campus Stories – Baruch College".
  6. ^ "Carol Berkin – The Department of History – Weissman School of Arts and Sciences – Baruch College".
  7. ^ Wheeler, Sara (February 7, 2014). "'Wondrous Beauty,' by Carol Berkin". The New York Times.


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