About the Author
Marla Miller is a professor of history and director of the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. An award-winning author, Miller is best known for her essay on Rebecca Dickinson, “My Part Alone,” as well as the books The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution, and Betsy Ross and the Making of America.
Series editor Carol Berkin is a well-known women's historian and the author of many popular and scholarly books, including Civil War Wives. She is Professor of History Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and she is a member of the Society of American Historians.